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All right, so here's what I can tell you about colors. Okay, so I have four colors. I haven't ever really seen a limit for how many colors you can have. I know people with only one color, two colors, and even more than five colors. My colors are really nice sunshine yellow, a nice blue, turquoise and red coral, and emerald green. The way that I received mine was by entering into ceremony with traditional counselors, elder paragraphs and Aboriginal students services. Her name is Jermaine Diller. And she was given the gift of being able to tell names, colors and clans. What I did was pay her tobacco time he sat with intention. For me, the intention started about six months previous, but we really sat with it for a long time. And it's a very personal decision to receive that. For some people, they don't feel ready until they're older. For others, they are raised in a culture and they receive it when they're younger. For me, I didn't receive mine until I was 21. So when I first got in, like, Oh, it's like a sunset scene. This is kind of cool. You know, you have your son and then you have the grass and you have the two colors. And then like I started thinking about the color order to how I told it to you is exactly how I perceive my colors. So I had to really sit with that. So for some of my colors, I'm not quite sure yet. I've been doing the research on and off for a while. But I figured the sunshine yellow because I'm so funny, really bubbly. And like generally yellows a happy color from what I've heard. And then for the others I haven't quite looked into it. Even just finding like coral. For regalia. It's hard because there's not a lot of coral colors that are out there. But the emerald green I was not surprised with the rest of them was very surprised if the colors emerald green, I'm like well, that's my birth mother always enjoyed the color. So it's just trying to figure out the other two. And I think that's just part of my journey. I don't get to personally wear my colors every single day. But I do try to have those colors in my life. So not long after I received those colors and after I had had my first feast after receiving my name, my clan and my colors, I actually created a dreamcatcher for my room. And in the center of the dream catcher sometimes people like to put in beads. So putting beads to represent each color, like kind of swirling around in the center. So that so I wake up and go to sleep every day, seeing those colors like above my bed. So it really helps to kind of like ground and orient me throughout my day. And then I also have my meaty sash in my office gifted by the Toronto recreational meaty Council, and they carry some of my colors so it's nice to come into the office and also have my colors grounded me. And then in ceremony I always have my colors because that's a representation of myself. That's just another aspect another dimension to share.

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