Unknown: 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.