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My name is Manidoo Nemeen.

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My artist name is Que Rock.

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I'm from Nipissing First Nation.

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I'm Anishinaabe Odawa.

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I'm from the seven great nations
of the Anishinaabe people.

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My artist background is an
influence of graffiti mixed with

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I guess like The woodlands art
style.

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From a young age, we were taught
to learn about our culture and

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then find ways that we can share
and pass on the same teachings

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that were passed on to us.

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Indigenous art is not art that's
meant for interpretation.

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This is educational. And so
everything actually has meaning

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behind it. Whether it's through
sacred geometry, whether it's

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through symbolism.

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A lot of the patterns are not
random.

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My goal is to create
awareness about Anishinaabe

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culture and give people an
opportunity to see a perspective

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that they normally don't get a
chance to see.

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If you're not familiar with the
term Turtle Island, it's the

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name of North America.

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This is the territory that
you're on right now, it's

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Anishinaabe territory.

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This story is very fitting to
this environment.

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When I was growing up, I was
taught from my nookomis, my

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grandmother, a story that's
called the Six Nations Peace

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Treaty Story.

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And it's a story that's based on
a time when there was five great

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nations that lived on Turtle
Island before the human nation

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was invited here.

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And those five nations are the
bird nation, the fish nation,

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the animal nation, the insect
nation, and the plant nation.

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Winona was the first Anishinaabe kwe, 
the very first human.

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When she was created, she was
given a set of instructions.

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The set of instructions that she
had is walk gentle, walk in

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prayer and walk in a good way.

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I also include other layers of
other teachings, including the

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Medicine Wheel teachings.

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It was created 20,000 years ago,
and when it was created, it was

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a tool that my ancestors used
not only to understand how the

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laws of nature's work, but also
how your natures work.

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So you have fire (ishkode), you
have aki (earth), you have nibi

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(water) and you have noodin, which
is the air nation.

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Another part about the Medicine
Wheel that I included in here is

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The Four Seasons.

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And that's why over Winona, the
leaves are falling off of her.

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Then you also have the Four
Nations, the four colors of

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humanity. Yellow, black, white,
and red.

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So to me, this is an accurate
land acknowledgement.

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It's acknowledging all the
nations that we share this

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beautiful place with, our Mother
Earth.

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This is, if you could imagine,
an x-ray photo of spirit.

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This is what these paintings are
in my culture.

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We're highlighting the energy,
the coexistence of everything

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and how it's all interconnected.

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I think that's what I would like
for people to take away, is that

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curiosity to understand it
deepers and then hopefully spark

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conversations.