We don’t even need words
↓ listen to the story in KANIEN’KÉHA ↓
🔈
↓ listen to the story in KANIEN’KÉHA ↓ 🔈
(Courtesy: Tealey Ka'senni:saks Normandin)
Story told by Tealey Ka’senni:saks Normandin
It was around the mid-2010s when I attended my first Sixties Scoop gathering with other Indigenous adoptees, getting together and talking with them.
When I'm talking with others, telling a story, I might ask, “Do you get what I’m saying?” Usually, people will sit there and sort of go, “Yeah,” but you’re not really sure that they get it.
With another adoptee, however, we don’t even need words. We don’t have to have words. I’ll say a sentence, and I’ll look at my friend; She’ll just nod and give me a hug.
It’s like, we just feel it, we know it in each other.
KANIEN’KÉHA VERSION
〰️
KANIEN’KÉHA VERSION 〰️
Iah tha'teiotonhontsóhon thé:nen aionkeniwennakè:tohte
(Courtesy: Tealey Ka'senni:saks Normandin)
Tealey Ka’senni:saks Normandin IAKOKÁ:RATON
Ákta ne ahsén:nen nón:we ne 2010 shiiohserò:tens tsi ó:nen eh iahà:ke akwá:wen tiotierénhton Sixties Scoop kentiohkwarò:ron skátne ó:ia Onkwehón:we watewirarákwen, wa'akwatia'tarò:roke tánon wa'tiakwahthá:ren.
Nó:nen oià:shon teionkwáhthare, ionkwaká:raton, tóka' nòn:wa enkerihwanón:ton, "Iesewáhes kenh tsi nahò:ten ká:ton?" Iotkà:te ón:kwe eh ratítskote tánon nek ne iá:ken enthonnì:ron, "Hen," nek tsi iah orihwí:io tesaterièn:tare tóka' kenh iehatíhes.
Skátne ó:ia watewirarákwen, aró:nen ki', kwah iah tha'teiotonhontsóhon thé:nen aionkeniwennakè:tohte. Iah tha'teiotonhontsóhon thé:nen aionkeniwennaién:take. Tsorì:wa enkerihò:kten, sok ienkheiatkáhtho nontiátshi ; Nek tenionteniahkáro'ke tánon enionkhnià:sa.
Kwah tsi ní:ne, nek iatiattó:kas, onkenonhahtsherá:kon tiakeniienté:ri.
Edited by: George Rahrhaienté:ri Ross, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Translated by: Karonhí:io Delaronde