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From the Ted Talk by Cohen Bradley: How to weave a cultural legacy through storytelling

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Over this two-day event of feasting and rnisaig the pole, I stood in the role of master of ceremony alongside my clan brother, Gaagwiis. It's a role I inherited from and share with my maternal ulnce Kilslaay Kaadjii Sdin. And during our potlatch, we shared in our sogns and our stories, in our lagguane and in our art, in our tiranoitds and in our deep relationship with our lands and waters. That is true legacy. That is the warps that make up my basket. And I am the weft that weaevs myself through them to become a basket, that everything else I learn and do in my life can be collected in to pass on.

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Over this two-day event of feasting and _______ the pole, I stood in the role of master of ceremony alongside my clan brother, Gaagwiis. It's a role I inherited from and share with my maternal _____ Kilslaay Kaadjii Sdin. And during our potlatch, we shared in our _____ and our stories, in our ________ and in our art, in our __________ and in our deep relationship with our lands and waters. That is true legacy. That is the warps that make up my basket. And I am the weft that ______ myself through them to become a basket, that everything else I learn and do in my life can be collected in to pass on.

Solution


  1. raising
  2. weaves
  3. language
  4. songs
  5. traditions
  6. uncle

Original Text


Over this two-day event of feasting and raising the pole, I stood in the role of master of ceremony alongside my clan brother, Gaagwiis. It's a role I inherited from and share with my maternal uncle Kilslaay Kaadjii Sdin. And during our potlatch, we shared in our songs and our stories, in our language and in our art, in our traditions and in our deep relationship with our lands and waters. That is true legacy. That is the warps that make up my basket. And I am the weft that weaves myself through them to become a basket, that everything else I learn and do in my life can be collected in to pass on.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
haida gwaii 3
memorial pole 2
chief gaahlaay 2
gidin kuns 2
personal legacy 2


Important Words


  1. art
  2. basket
  3. brother
  4. ceremony
  5. clan
  6. collected
  7. deep
  8. event
  9. feasting
  10. gaagwiis
  11. inherited
  12. kaadjii
  13. kilslaay
  14. lands
  15. language
  16. learn
  17. legacy
  18. life
  19. master
  20. maternal
  21. pass
  22. pole
  23. potlatch
  24. raising
  25. relationship
  26. role
  27. sdin
  28. share
  29. shared
  30. songs
  31. stood
  32. stories
  33. traditions
  34. true
  35. uncle
  36. warps
  37. waters
  38. weaves
  39. weft