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Unknown: All right, so here's
what I can tell you about

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colors. Okay, so I have four
colors. I haven't ever really

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seen a limit for how many colors
you can have. I know people with

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only one color, two colors, and
even more than five colors. My

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colors are really nice sunshine
yellow, a nice blue, turquoise

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and red coral, and emerald
green. The way that I received

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mine was by entering into
ceremony with traditional

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counselors, elder paragraphs and
Aboriginal students services.

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Her name is Jermaine Diller. And
she was given the gift of being

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able to tell names, colors and
clans. What I did was pay her

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tobacco time he sat with
intention. For me, the intention

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started about six months
previous, but we really sat with

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it for a long time. And it's a
very personal decision to

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receive that. For some people,
they don't feel ready until

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they're older. For others, they
are raised in a culture and they

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receive it when they're younger.
For me, I didn't receive mine

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until I was 21. So when I first
got in, like, Oh, it's like a

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sunset scene. This is kind of
cool. You know, you have your

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son and then you have the grass
and you have the two colors. And

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then like I started thinking
about the color order to how I

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told it to you is exactly how I
perceive my colors. So I had to

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really sit with that. So for
some of my colors, I'm not quite

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sure yet. I've been doing the
research on and off for a while.

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But I figured the sunshine
yellow because I'm so funny,

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really bubbly. And like
generally yellows a happy color

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from what I've heard. And then
for the others I haven't quite

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looked into it. Even just
finding like coral. For regalia.

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It's hard because there's not a
lot of coral colors that are out

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there. But the emerald green I
was not surprised with the rest

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of them was very surprised if
the colors emerald green, I'm

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like well, that's my birth
mother always enjoyed the color.

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So it's just trying to figure
out the other two. And I think

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that's just part of my journey.
I don't get to personally wear

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my colors every single day. But
I do try to have those colors in

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my life. So not long after I
received those colors and after

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I had had my first feast after
receiving my name, my clan and

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my colors, I actually created a
dreamcatcher for my room. And in

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the center of the dream catcher
sometimes people like to put in

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beads. So putting beads to
represent each color, like kind

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of swirling around in the
center. So that so I wake up and

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go to sleep every day, seeing
those colors like above my bed.

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So it really helps to kind of
like ground and orient me

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throughout my day. And then I
also have my meaty sash in my

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office gifted by the Toronto
recreational meaty Council, and

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they carry some of my colors so
it's nice to come into the

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office and also have my colors
grounded me. And then in

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ceremony I always have my colors
because that's a representation

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of myself. That's just another
aspect another dimension to

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share.