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00:00This is what I'm known as.
00:08It means he has dreamt a dream and keeps it.
00:11I'm also known as Wilford Buck.
00:14I'm from Aposkiak.
00:15Free Nation.
00:16In my younger days, I was commonly known as Smokey Buck.
00:20I am of the fresh out of the bush, colonized, displaced people, trained and shamed by teachers,
00:27law enforcement, to be a hard-drinking, self-loathing, disaffected youth of the dirty Indian Beaver
00:32Boomer generation.
00:33I lived and died in North Central Manitoba.
00:37This is my reality fiction.
00:46Our people were never lost.
00:47That means anywhere they went was home.
00:49Our skies had all the stories that we hear about.
00:54You people were telling me about my people, about what I believed.
01:01I found something that was missing in my life.
01:07It was a sacred thing and it was a powerful thing.
01:10In order to walk away, you can't just change one or two things, you have to change everything.