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In this regard, I'm sure Alaska and this state office in Taiwan will achieve a great deal if you will know regularly. No, no.

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I know you can kind of mind how good that comes. Okay, quickly and in about five minutes, I just want to mention that in 1983, I did a short research on music ceremonies. There are, had different some of the ceremonies they witnessed back before Christian spray in this area. But a lot of the red fabric and stuff is kind of confusing. So in 1983, we were teaching language and we did a lot of crap and stuff. But one of the things that we've forgotten and I was just earlier when I started music that the spiritual, our spiritual, trilogy, and music is part of it. I mean, it's not compartmentalized, the religion. The unique religion in spiritual, spirituality.

And so it seems kind of funny that people thought it was missing from the high school curriculum, but we weren't. So I was asked to do a research on this in, and so in 1983, I interviewed 15 years from here, but both in the U.K. and the book that came out with a new picture of Mother Elk is a exotic new book and being used in the high school, in some area, high schools. Under paintings of, well, there's, they contain our moral traditions. Let me give an example. For instance, in a ceremony called a little bit, which is an English called a memorial feast, one of the things we still practice today, and it kind of helps,

helps families give people a personal identity within that form and within that community to, to a use of a certain name. And it's a very, still a very important way that we recognize a person as an integral part of that community. And it kind of strengthened social relationships. It's realized that they are, those people are still with us. There is a belief that when a person is named, that person who died, his or her essence in a way, her personality kind of comes back to the person who is named after that person. So in the ceremony called a little bit, for instance, those people who died were closed and fed to the living namesake.

So in that matter festival, we ensure the continuance of gain by putting the bladders under the ice. It believed that these animals come back, come back to us. We put them on the bladders on their eyes so that they will come back to be caught again. And also, we have this belief in the memorial ceremony that, that when we name a living person after that person who died, in a way that that person who died comes back. And it's psychologically good for a person, I think, to have that name continue. Like, for instance, my mother, my mother, she's her name was passed on in a way they used to tease.

And if they think, she is still there on minus in a way. So some of these ceremonies, the, like, it looked at the end of the doctor, for instance. In the Bible, we're told, be still and know. Often times in this rush rush rush of living, we don't get the chance to be still and know. And then the Yupics, the older people are also telling us that we are, to me, I'm just sure that I do. To seek our mind is what to me, which means it's not like, it's something like that. To see, to know what life is all about. And this suffers these days, because our lives are so crammed with these concerns, economic concerns, getting our head concerns that we just never really stopped

to recognize that we are spiritual human beings. And that one last thing I want to say is that, we haven't really studied very much about Yupics spirituality. And I think that the more study about ceremonies can also, I mean, the more we know about them, the more our people know about them will help us to appreciate some of the universal human concerns for one. Thank you. Thank you.

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