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Who Am I?
Who am I? Truth is, I have no clue. That is the beauty within the madness of this journey i’d like to call life. I will never know who I am, until it hits me. Only then I will truly know my purpose. My spirit name, my clan and my colours are here to guide me through this intense journey of self-discovery, to help me answer the long and complex question of ‘who am I?’. It is through reading Life of Pi, that I started to reflect on the ideologies of other religions and spiritualities, which then, sparked an essence of wanting to figure out the meaning of several sacred teachings. To begin my story, we have to go back to September 1, the catalyst the day of my naming ceremony. This ceremony began with helping me find my name, my clan, and my colours. I was taught the importance of a spirit name which is that all of Creation has a name, so why shouldn’t I? As simple as this sounds, it is an intense ceremony, it brings you together with your spirit as one, which is a feeling that is indescribable. During this ceremony, I was meant to receive my name, my colours and my clan likewise, but that wasn’t the case for me. I was told that I have a gift, my gift is the power to heal myself and others around me. It became my new mission to find my clan, my family, as well as my colours, my protectors. Colours are probably one of the most important aspects of an Anishinaabe person’s life, colours represent power, they are equally as important as your name. When I say my name, my colours follow along. When I started asking The Creator for my colours, they came to me in a dream. I held my tobacco pouch close, I spoke to him, asked to receive my colours, explained that I want to figure out who I am. That same night, it felt as though it was a lucid dream, I saw orbs of magenta, sunset yellow and a beautiful burnt orange. When I woke up I thought to myself ‘these are all colours that are featured in my murals, maybe I wanted this to happen?’. But here’s the weird thing, The Creator works in mysterious ways, it is taught to us that there is always a balance in life, dark comes with light, good comes with bad and to give is to receive. I was given my colours, and in exchange, The Creator took my tobacco pouch.

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