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00:00 Welcome to the 2023 Inspire Awards 30th anniversary.
00:07 Welcome to Treaty 6.
00:12 Here we are in incredible Treaty 6 territory. Let's go out for Treaty 6 everybody, come on!
00:16 It's a pleasure to see all of you here after such a long time away from Yalas Legades.
00:28 Tonight, not only will we be honoring the 2023 award recipients,
00:33 we will also be celebrating 30 years and the life-changing work of generations.
00:38 30 years ago, the world was a very different place.
00:55 Google, YouTube, Twitter, none of this was in existence.
00:58 Some of you weren't born yet.
01:01 In another venue, something equally profound was happening.
01:04 The very first awards to honor Indigenous achievement across a wide variety of fields were created.
01:11 The first National Aboriginal Achievement Awards.
01:14 [Music]
01:31 We are here celebrating 30 years!
01:35 [Music]
01:37 [Music]
01:59 I'd like to ask each laureate to stand and be recognized.
02:05 [Music]
02:16 It is my absolute heartfelt honor to present to you this year's Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Elder Dr. Albert D. Marshall!
02:26 Thank you for inspiring us.
02:29 And congratulations to all the award recipients.
02:32 And we've done good work here.
02:36 Not changing one life at a time, but literally changing hundreds if not thousands of lives.
02:42 [Music]
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