>> Okay one more, one more thing. What is the best way to refer to Aboriginal peoples? This is kind of the, a question that comes up. And, really the thing to do is to try and get as specific as possible. I'm borrowing this kind of concentric circle model from one of the teachers in the teacher education program at [inaudible]. But it's, you know, other people have been using similar things to talk about this with people who are saying, how do I, what is, what is the safest thing to do? What's the politically correct thing to do? And the thing is, you get as particular as you can. Their nation in their own language is an important policy to kind of go by. There's a lot of reclaiming of the original language names for a people, for a people, for a culture, for a group. And, and one of the reasons for this is because in the past a lot of the names that, that became popularized or became the standard were names that one group used to define another, and they weren't always positive descriptions. For instance, one group might call another Real Snakes, and then you don't really want to be called like the Huron because it's a, it's a putdown. Another example like with, with Ojibway, it's, it's meant to suggest something that's puckered up. And, for some, they say though, it was describing the moccasins, that they're, the Ojibway made moccasins in a way that the it was, they were puckered up. Others said it was a reference to the horrible treatment that they exposed people to by roasting them on fires till they puckered up. And so the, the, it's like a terrible kind of connotation, but in our language when we say we, we are the people, the, the real beings, or the human beings, the good beings the word is [foreign]. And most first nations have their own name for themselves, which really just translates as the people or people in relation to a place, like people of the hill, people of the, of the standing stone. And so these names really are, if you look at them all, it's just people. And it doesn't have those other horrible connotations that have been given to us by warring neighbors or something like that. So it's not oh, it's, you don't always know what that is. It's good to ask who you're, who you're talking about, what they prefer. Moving outward, though, if you're talking about like a number of nations or, you know, a number of Aboriginal people, then you can kind of get, get specific. Are you taking about first nations, and you're not talking about Metis and Inuit? You know, go with first nation. Get as specific as you can. But then you move out to indigenous peoples, native, first peoples, et cetera. Another thing to add to this kind of discussion about eh, eh, you know what, what terms to use, the question often comes up about the s. Like, is it indigenous people or indigenous peoples? And I, you know, I've heard people saying peoples, because they think it's the, the PC thing to say, but they're really meaning people. I think the way to kind of understand it, the way I've tried to explain it is with indigenous people, you're talking about the collection of individuals who are indigenous. So all the people who are indigenous are indigenous people. If you're talking about the, the collectives, the groups, in plural, that's when you put the s on there. So you're talking about the indigenous peoples of North America, then you mean to say the Cree, the, the, the Inuit, the, the [inaudible], and so on. And then, then you're describing indigenous peoples, the collectives. So I, I think that covers a lot of the, the main terms. But like I say, if you want to see some of the other terms that are out there and how they're used, then look at saybar.ca slash key terms, okay?
