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How to use time memory trigger combinations: - Make a mental image of a specific time state of something and then make a mental image of another specific time state of that something. Order matters. Time states: Known Past = Working on the school art project. Unknown Past = Working on the school art project or something else. Current = Presenting the school art project. Present Future = Putting the school art project away. Past Future = Getting tired while working on the school art project. 1. Known Past + Current or Current + Known Past time memory trigger combinations are used to compare the known past state with the current state. Known Past = Working on the school art project. Current = Presenting the school art project. 2. Known Past + Past Future or Past Future + Known Past time memory trigger combinations are used to compare the known past state with the past future state. Known Past = Working on the school art project. Past Future = Getting tired while working on the school art project. 3. Unknown Past + Present Future or Present Future + Unknown Past time memory trigger combinations are used to compare the unknown past state with the present future state. Unknown Past = Working on the school art project or something else. Present Future = Putting the school art project away. 4. Unknown Past + Current or Current + Unknown Past time memory trigger combinations are used to predict the unknown past state with the current state. Unknown Past = Working on the school art project or something else. Current = Presenting the school art project. 5. Current + Present Future or Present Future + Current time memory trigger combinations are used to predict the present future state with the current state. Current = Presenting the school art project. Present Future = Putting the school art project away. 6. Known Past + Present Future or Present Future + Known Past time memory trigger combinations are used to predict the present future state with the known past state. Known Past = Working on the school art project. Present Future = Putting the school art project away. 7. Unknown Past + Past Future or Past Future + Unknown Past time memory trigger combinations are used to predict the unknown past state with the past future state. Unknown Past = Working on the school art project or something else. Past Future = Getting tired while working on the school art project. Memory trigger combinations that don't work: 1. Current + Past Future or Past Future + Current (There is no known past or unknown past) - Each memory trigger combination's second memory trigger often get more attention than the first. It may depend on how questions are asked in the language you speak. I speak English, so I often focus on the end part of questions because the end part usually has the request in English. #1 example: The second memory trigger of the time memory trigger combination Known Past + Current is Current, so Current gets more attention than Known Past. #2 example: The second memory trigger of the time memory trigger combination Current + Known Past is Known Past, so Known Past gets more attention than Current. - 1, 2, and 3 are time memory trigger combinations that compare two states. 1 and 2 compare two states that both happened. 3 compares two states that haven't happened. - 4, 5, 6, and 7 are time memory trigger combinations that predict their unknown past states or present future states using their current states, unknown past states, or past future states to make this prediction.

I ended up starting embroidery for my auntie based off of this sketch. Geometric, florals and berries are what people always say traditional Anishnaabe Kwe designs are made of.

What does it mean to look like an NDN? I know I don't. but also I do. I look enough that people don't really question it when I say I am. I look enough that when I wear the right thing or go out with family members people know. I look and am enough to have been called "exotic" as a "compliment" by random white ladies at the grocery store as a kid. I look enough that people don't ask if my Grandpa is my Grandpa like they do with some of my cousins. I look enough that when I say something, teachers in high school viewed me worse than they did before. I look it enough to "randomly" be assigned to the side debating why cultural appropriation is good in English class in high school along with the only other Nish or native kid in my class. Because we were the people who had a culture to appropriate. (that teacher said a lot of weird messed-up things, and later got fired for having a "sexual relationship"(ASIDE this is what everyone said, but how could she consent to this relationship with her TEACHER??? Sure she was 18, but also she was only 18 and still in high school? she was his student and he coached the track team I was on with her too)

I know I look Anishnaabe because I look like my family. So much of the ideas of what Native people look like are just racial stereotypes. There are so many phenotypes within different communities. While race exists socially because society decides it does, which leads people to have shared experiences of oppression which eventually results in shared group experiences, when you remove skin tone from the equation you'd be surprised by how different people from different Nation's looked before settlers came. From hair texture to build to nose shapes.

Compare past and present (or recent past really) by editing photos of myself so they are greyscaled or filtered more like the photos I have of my family.

These three photos are the only photos I have or have ever seen of my Grandmothers on this side of the family. I know many other people wouldn't expect to have very many photos of their great grandmothers, but I think it feels extra significant because in my father's immediate family there are no Anishnaabe Kwe. My Grandmother is white, so it was him, his brothers and his Dad that are Anishnaabe. There is a generational gap. I have always felt bereft of a maternal figure that understands and has experienced life as an Anishnaabe Kwe. I think a lot of people do not expect to get to know or be close to their great-grandmothers, but knowing your great Nookomis is definitely considered a lot more common and expected in Native communities. A lot of my friends growing up knew theirs and spent almost as much time with them as their Gookomis.

This past year I have reconnected with two of my Great Aunties. These relationships have been incredibly rewarding to me, and make me feel a lot more connected to my community as a whole. I have gathered more specific information about family history with their help than I have in a lifetime prior. My aunties have really helped me feel closer to, and like I am apart of the same lineage as my Nookomis that I never got to meet.

Note* Nookomis is my grandmother, Gookomis is your grandmother

Great Great Granny, Lucy Grand-Louie

Great Granny, Evelyn Goulais

Me at 3 or 4 years

"Glamour" shot of Granny Evelyn