Water Teaching with Edna Manitowabi

The plants, four-leggeds, insects, flyers, fish, all life on this earth relies on water, including us two-leggeds. First Nations Elder, Edna Manitowabi, shares traditional teachings about the importance and sacredness of water.
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0:00 Introduction
1:37 Water is powerful. Water is sacred.
3:37 Creation and the Skyworld
10:43 Wound and Vibration of Water
18:19 Grandmother Moon and Women
27:00 Youth and Movement
28:43 Gratitude
#Indigenous, #water, #wabano, #IndigenousHealth, #IndigenousTeachings

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  • @rosarygiddings3876
    @rosarygiddings38768 ай бұрын

    Water is also a natural “barrier “ where certain things can not cross it. When my soul struggles. I go to the water to rest. 😊🙏

  • @JesusOwns
    @JesusOwns11 ай бұрын

    I love this woman. She reminds me a lot of my Mom. She speaks with such passion of our Mother Earth. Simply beautiful.

  • @amandaheiser8587
    @amandaheiser8587 Жыл бұрын

    This video is an eye opener. Edna does an amazing job of explaining the power of water and nature itself. It’s sad that Indigenous people were treated so badly by the government and the Europeans, we could have learned a lot from them. It’s not too late, learn from them, change the way you treat nature and water and see what happens. Thank you Edna!

  • @Freebirdshearth

    @Freebirdshearth

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree with you from my heart.

  • @valpete5251

    @valpete5251

    Жыл бұрын

    MIIGWECH Edna 💖🤗

  • @amandaheiser8587

    @amandaheiser8587

    6 ай бұрын

    I think you misread my response, I said “It’s NOT too late”… it’s never too late!

  • @MamaFirehorse5

    @MamaFirehorse5

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes, we all are responsible for taking care of the waters not only around us in all directions, but also within us.

  • @DebEDee

    @DebEDee

    5 ай бұрын

    Thank you Edna. This is beautiful and I am learnng a lot from you! I very much appreciate you sharing this precious knowledge.

  • @debrahorn1938
    @debrahorn19388 ай бұрын

    No matter our ethnicity, we are of the earth. We are of the water. We are one in love and respect. Thank you for your wise words. They lifted my spirit and blessed my day.

  • @mjrussell414
    @mjrussell414 Жыл бұрын

    That was fascinating - what a wonderful lady and teacher she is.

  • @evilbarbie2160
    @evilbarbie2160 Жыл бұрын

    Your talk about the birth of a child especially moved me to tears. Honoring all life and our children. Thank you for sharing.

  • @laneng5799
    @laneng5799 Жыл бұрын

    I TRULY ADMIRED THE WISDOMS OF THIS NOBLE BLESSED WOMAN.... MY MOTHER IN SPIRIT EVEN THOUGH I AM SIUOX'S INDIAN WE ARE ALL SISTER'S AN BROTHER'S IF THE FIRST OF THIS LAND!"🔥❤️🔥

  • @MellovesYah
    @MellovesYah7 ай бұрын

    Absolutely Beautiful!! In my extra biblical studies the Moon and water are so very important and aligns with everything you are saying. Mayim in Hebrew is Water and Sha-Mayin means "the Heavens". And the Moon is she and the Sun He.... She is a water bearer as woman is the life bringer. In Hebrew Hauva or Eve means (the first woman) "life giver". Just like the Ruah ha qodesh the Spirit of the Living YahUah is She. The teacher, the comforter Wisdom and life giver....She is the breath over the water.

  • @corinnemaincent42
    @corinnemaincent42 Жыл бұрын

    Marvellous. What a wise woman you are. Infinite Gratitude for your teaching Edna.

  • @adampetrie621
    @adampetrie621 Жыл бұрын

    I have first nation forefathers of Turtle island, Lakota Teton..I live in Australia, I can still remember the feelings that resonated through me the very first time I heard the didgeridoo. Every hair on my body rose, still to this day I love hearing the songs and seeing the traditional dancers of first nation Australia. I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that first nation people of Turtle island and the indigenous peoples of Australia have a lot in common, one of the things in common is the sacredness of water..

  • @karenthomas6737
    @karenthomas6737 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the blessings and the beautiful water drum!!! WOW🥰💖🙏❤️

  • @user-rq4cu5gx3r
    @user-rq4cu5gx3r3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the knowledge of the elders of our ways

  • @user-tr7fi5hn6m
    @user-tr7fi5hn6m9 ай бұрын

    That's Beautiful that her imbilical cord was buried there and she's still there.

  • @zeropointconsciousness
    @zeropointconsciousness11 ай бұрын

    The story of the Fisherman is the exact same as my own story...a Nature Spirit in the form of a beautiful Maiden stepped out from behind the (not particularly wide) tree as thanks for looking after the land, the trees and the birds...Chi Miigwetch 💚

  • @sandralent1108
    @sandralent11082 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful to hear Edna's voice and to receive this lesson.

  • @dawnmitchell9369
    @dawnmitchell93692 ай бұрын

    Beautiful ❤ Thank you so much for sharing this wisdom 🙏

  • @margaretcumberworth-bucher9626
    @margaretcumberworth-bucher96264 ай бұрын

    I love this video and would like to apologize for how you were treated and it made you feel like you didn't fit in. You're a beautiful soul and your video touched me deeply! May the Creator of the Universe bless you!

  • @PUREWATER1212
    @PUREWATER12127 ай бұрын

    Thank you water 💧I am grateful 💙 Thank you Edna Manitowabi💧💙💧

  • @cathymorrison4953
    @cathymorrison4953 Жыл бұрын

    I was lucky in the M70ds. Hung out at the Toronto Native Center 🧡🧡🧡🧡 Yrs later ended up in Orillia. But if you were not from RAMA, It was hard to get Help, in the 90ds, A few Women and I Started O.N.W.G Orillia Native Women's Group🧡🧡🧡🧡

  • @banakondakennedy-kishbell8969

    @banakondakennedy-kishbell8969

    Жыл бұрын

    I hung out there to...a time of waking.

  • @beckiej.morris8471
    @beckiej.morris8471Ай бұрын

    I have always had a strong attraction to water, especially springs, and felt such a need to protect it, that I became a hydrogeologist. A rare female in a field dominated by men. For me, it was not academic. I had to give groundwater a voice. My professional reason was to conserve water for everyone to have access to it, but my private reason was my respect for water and all it gives us. When a spring dies, so does the community it supported; plant/animal/human. I have innately felt so much of what you put to words in such a beautiful way. Thank you. 🥲

  • @SootyS-wg4lm
    @SootyS-wg4lm Жыл бұрын

    🙏 so blessed to receive this wisdom. Thank you so much. X

  • @brianperkins6121
    @brianperkins6121 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing , our culture is coming back into contact with artistic layers of powerful strong reflection upon these deep layers ,, "The Way of Water" has no Beginning and No end. The Sea is around you and in you, The sea is your home , Before your Birth and after your Death. Our Hearts Beat in the Womb of the world. Our Breath burns in the shadows of the deep. The sea gives and the sea takes. Water connects "all" things. Life to death , Darkness to Light . The Global reactive internal response to these layers of "refection" a lot deeper into the core internal layers of history in ways I have not seen but many people seem to be strongly internally aware of .

  • @naymayabiksnibi
    @naymayabiksnibi Жыл бұрын

    Namaypoks Nibi, MniWiconi. 🙏💓 The very water, and amount of water that has been on the Earth, is the same as the 'beginning', no alpha no omega. We have polluted the water, yet the pollutants remain separate.

  • @whirlingsu1
    @whirlingsu16 ай бұрын

    Thank you Edna Manitowabi! This “being in relation”, is profound and can effect all our relationships by allowing us to listen and have patience, tough for many of us, and an unfamiliar reverence for our earth and for each other. Thank you This being in relation can move us towards activism- marching, writing to our representatives, voting, to practice this reverence. Thank you 🙏

  • @user-ks5fh6nn4i
    @user-ks5fh6nn4i Жыл бұрын

    It's just so healing listening to you. So enlightening!

  • @sylviesas2992
    @sylviesas2992Ай бұрын

    migwetch kokom Manitowabi for sharing your teachings. ox

  • @nickbuffa1814
    @nickbuffa18147 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing. Edna and the other ladies are beautiful and smart and lovely. Much love to all beings ❤

  • @ruhied957
    @ruhied9574 ай бұрын

    I feel i have arrived.. like your drumming experience. I am in tears .. uncontrolled beautiful and greatful.. i hope one day i can lear more from you to carry the flam❤e

  • @giseladearmas9221
    @giseladearmas92217 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing the blessings of water. Water that I love so much respect with much gratitude, I truly believe that water’s heals our body if is need it. I speak with the water I drink sea water play with the water and hug the water! God blessed you all!

  • @Bijan-ry2tb
    @Bijan-ry2tbАй бұрын

    We have All Connections my Dear Lady ❤AI Lab U

  • @Just.a.girl.doing.her.dharma
    @Just.a.girl.doing.her.dharma2 ай бұрын

    Oh my! I’ve been hearing drums! So glad I was lead to this video

  • @gingerr9647
    @gingerr9647 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing such profound simplicity with so much heart

  • @tabithaspeaight2273
    @tabithaspeaight22738 ай бұрын

    Soch truth and power runs through her words. I shiver in recognition of the truth in her.

  • @leontypaul2427
    @leontypaul24276 ай бұрын

    After studying about how everything came to be, yes our ancestors new all along, even here in alaska, I'm an alaska native and my grandfather use to tell me what our ancestors called the creator of the universe, ellam yua, meaning universal being, and he said that they use to look to the east, cause that's where His rays come from, and that's where Jesus will first appear in the sky.

  • @leontypaul2427

    @leontypaul2427

    6 ай бұрын

    Oh yaa, and we have native dances, the drums are his heart beat and anyone dancing is His motion, and with dance festivities they worshiped His.

  • @TheMysticWildFlower
    @TheMysticWildFlower7 ай бұрын

    I once had a pdf book about water from the Canadian govt. I got it online. It spoke of birth. There was a turtle in the front cover I think. I wish I still had it.

  • @roshanacoy5303
    @roshanacoy53035 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you for the beautiful teaching. Water sister

  • @aprillindala3383
    @aprillindala33832 жыл бұрын

    Boozhoo/She:kon, miigwech/Nia:wen for sharing Edna's teachings in this format and through this channel. I feel so much gratitude for hearing some of these stories again and new ones. I especially love the story of the first treaty. What a beautiful teaching for our young mothers. May I inquire about who produced and directed this film? And audio work as well? Miigwech/Nia:wen, April

  • @skullshapedbox
    @skullshapedbox Жыл бұрын

    Chi-miigwech, thank you so so much for this video and all the people involved. I am just starting to reconnect with my heritage. I suffer with a lot of mental illness, social anxiety keeps me from attending the local culture nights here (and I am terrified of getting someone sick)

  • @tereanderson8456
    @tereanderson84567 ай бұрын

    This was beautiful, thank you!!

  • @totokakalou785
    @totokakalou7856 ай бұрын

    Such a blessing 🌹

  • @Johnny-em8lh
    @Johnny-em8lh2 ай бұрын

    Eya, Water is Life ❤

  • @mirian593
    @mirian5936 ай бұрын

    Iam so glad to hear this beautiful lady telling us she feels the earth are shifting, the Mother Earth is crying out for us to wake up and do something, it has been too long since the darkness took place. Enough is enough.

  • @magicmaiden-cloudtalker9250
    @magicmaiden-cloudtalker92506 ай бұрын

    you all are loved so much

  • @AishaSabri-by9hc
    @AishaSabri-by9hc3 ай бұрын

    So very beautiful. Deep wisdom imbues all ancient cultures and their traditions, across the world. In my own culture - not as rich in water resources as Turtle Island! - the Koran (for Muslims the word of God) reminds us "and out of water We have created every living thing..." (surat al anbiya' 30). Without it, no life. So why are we so busily fiddling with and damaging it, slowly but surely destroying every living thing? Mankind can be so forgetful! A heartfelt salute to all who still remember the wisdom of the ancestors.

  • @georgeduncan8946
    @georgeduncan89463 күн бұрын

    Much honor 🙏🏿🙏🏿🌱🌱⚡️everyone wont love U🫶🏿but youll find those who will 🫠 Plant tiny kisses on your heart💕 and leave ya soul fulfilled 🫠

  • @evacerta6690
    @evacerta66905 ай бұрын

    Very beautiful! Thank you ❤

  • @LeeindaGodsTruewatermaiden
    @LeeindaGodsTruewatermaiden6 ай бұрын

    Thank you ♡

  • @mayanlogos92
    @mayanlogos927 ай бұрын

    Thanks 4 this ❤

  • @mindfulinmountains
    @mindfulinmountains7 ай бұрын

    Beautiful, thank you for sharing 💚

  • @navehschwab7013
    @navehschwab70132 ай бұрын

    I was invited to attend a baby naming ceremony to say my own prayers for my children. i am part ojibwe, french and english. My ancestors were at white earth in minnesota. My great great grandfather was the chief. I dont know the story as its kinda taboo talk in my family back then. Anyways, my children were taken by the state and we exposed alot of corruption in our case. We did a hunger strike on our capitol steps for 38 days i think. To my husband and i it was a public fast. Pleading to God for our children. There was this native kickapoo man who used to come up and mostly watch and sometimes ask questions. One day as it was really busy and we had a team of people that participated. I put a cigarette out in an almost empty water bottle. now as i did this i noticed a painful type grimace come across his face. i asked if he was ok. head looking down he said i shouldnt be so careless. He looked up at me and said water is very sacred. I was a little stunned but apologized for offending him. He said we should respect water and talked on as he explained a few points. i cant remember WHAT he said but i remember later on after the native man left i kept thinking about the things he said. i glanced over at the water bottle and felt so sad that i ruined the water. i went and took that bottle and i watered a nearby shrub saying a small prayer. this same man returned for many days and one day invited me to a baby naming ceremony. He was the drummer. The next morning after it was over an elder came to me as i was fleeing to my car. i was sick had a headache all night no sleep and most of the group did not want me or like me being there. i had even accidentally tainted a womans kitchen because i entered it asking if i could help. i did not know i wasnt allowed. The elders were nice and my native friend was there. I also had my eldest child who was 23 at the time. So i stayed but was really ready to get back to my husband. An elder did tell me i would get my kids back. I dont know what happened but it was crazy when i returned. My husband was out of his mind, fleeing from unseen forces. i cant tell you what happened but i can tell you that it was demonic and life threatening. It had to do with a group of VERY powerful people and politics. It just gets crazier but i end up being given reprieve at a monestary in the mountains. this particular place was surrounded by water! I had to drive through water in order to even enter.I prayed and pleaded and cried out to God Jesus and all creation. There everything shifted. We went back to our case and it was a different tune. Everthing changed to our favor. We got our kids back and went back to the monastary to say thanks as a family for my prayers being answered. I respect water now. Not only do i respect it i understand why its so sacred. ive also learned much more about the teachings of ojibwe and my ancestors. It has even changed my extended family. Where these things used to be taboo and they didnt like to think that it mattered to be native american. As a matter of fact our town was pretty racist toward my family. By my generation though it was forgotten because of our pale skin and blonde hair. On my protest for my children i met a woman named willow moon that i was related to and david gaskin was also a relative. He came to my protest not knowing but after he reviewed my family history and blood quantum paperwork he said we were both related to the fairbanks. Pretty cool how i met relatives from afar through this. He held a prayer circle and smudged us. I really appreciated him being there. I am amazed at all i have learned and been through. All because of one painfilled grimace. thanks Johnny if you ever read this. I still often think of you!!

  • @michellebennett4030
    @michellebennett40307 ай бұрын

    I respectfully ask you do a video on Ait the sacred connection with Air. Thank you. . What wonderful beautiful

  • @christinelaloba8869
    @christinelaloba88696 ай бұрын

    She really has a lovely presence about her this Edna.

  • @emilyhonish6520
    @emilyhonish65202 жыл бұрын

    Love this video and I recognized Leah Dorion's work right away!

  • @patriciagardner7278
    @patriciagardner72784 ай бұрын

    Love

  • @josephschaumberg4136
    @josephschaumberg4136 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @nicolethiedemann4685
    @nicolethiedemann4685 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you ❤️🙏

  • @mylinda2387
    @mylinda23872 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for sharing and bringing light

  • @capricorny9393
    @capricorny93937 ай бұрын

    That's why i Decided to start my distilled water journey to help detox the body and mind and get back to all this.. also coming from the blackfoot tribe Descendents

  • @disabledarmyveteran
    @disabledarmyveteran6 ай бұрын

    Love and light to all ❤. ~~~~~ 😊

  • @MamaFirehorse5
    @MamaFirehorse56 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this teaching!

  • @debbiem7834
    @debbiem7834 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

  • @mr1fishy612
    @mr1fishy6122 жыл бұрын

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  • @xenx1682
    @xenx1682 Жыл бұрын

    It does beyond respect♥

  • @alcicireria
    @alcicireria7 ай бұрын

    🌞 Norway

  • @Nufoundfriend8
    @Nufoundfriend8 Жыл бұрын

    Thank You 🙏

  • @caroloncapecod712
    @caroloncapecod712 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful! Thank you! ❤

  • @soulshineplus14
    @soulshineplus147 ай бұрын

    I like that ..I laughed once and said hey we can't just sit around the Bear is on the ground and then some .

  • @doricetimko332
    @doricetimko332 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this

  • @molliecoles5182
    @molliecoles51829 ай бұрын

    So true thanks for your wisdom❤❤

  • @Sunny_Day1111
    @Sunny_Day111110 ай бұрын

    Simply beautiful!

  • @stacyreedy5341
    @stacyreedy534111 ай бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @kellykelleher7321
    @kellykelleher73213 ай бұрын

  • @SeasonsOFcolors
    @SeasonsOFcolors Жыл бұрын

    How can I use water sounds to release internal trauma ?

  • @zeropointconsciousness

    @zeropointconsciousness

    Жыл бұрын

    You could meditate next to water and ask it to release your trauma, also ask a tree to release your trauma when you stand next to it's trunk Sacred Sister that works amazingly well and you'll probably bond in some way. Put down some tobacco as a thankyou and anything else you may think of as a nice gift...it will work and I think Cedar may work best. Blessings from Scotland Sis' look after yourself.

  • @SeasonsOFcolors

    @SeasonsOFcolors

    11 ай бұрын

    @@zeropointconsciousness thank you

  • @franciscojasso8091
    @franciscojasso80917 ай бұрын

    Sabiduría que hoy se está revelando con investigación muy a pesar de los que nos manipulan

  • @lisaaghdami3806
    @lisaaghdami3806 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks...Wado

  • @shannonmisquadis
    @shannonmisquadis10 ай бұрын

    Miigwech Nokomis ❤

  • @angelhopeshaktiathena1429
    @angelhopeshaktiathena14293 ай бұрын

    Gratitude, Peace, Love, Light, Appreciation🙏💧🍃🌄🌅 LET THERE BE LIGHT 🌄 🌅🧚‍♀️ LET THERE BE LOVE🌄🌅🧚‍♀️💧🍃 💜❤️💓💚 LET THERE BE LIFE 🌄🧚‍♀️💧🍃🌲🌳🌴METTA🍓🍉🍎🍌🫐🍇🌹🏡🛖🤽‍♀️🚣‍♀️🏊‍♀️🚣🚵‍♀️🪂🐣🐒🦁🐅🐆🐱🦊🐻🐷🐼🦉🦅🦣🐑🐕🐓🦚🦜🦥🐁🦔🐲🐄🐃🐂🐴🦄🐝🦋🐞🐟🦢🐇🦥🐲🍚🥑🙏🌄🧚 BHAWATU SABBA MANGALAM

  • @GrandmaLife567
    @GrandmaLife567 Жыл бұрын

    🌿🌻✊💜

  • @Moonbby.222
    @Moonbby.22211 ай бұрын

    🍃🌊🌞💗

  • @Firstthunder
    @Firstthunder Жыл бұрын

    The Laviathon that is described in the Bible matches the characteristics of Mishi Biizhi

  • @lyricingmire5443
    @lyricingmire54435 ай бұрын

    Can you use water for traveling to past lives or for experiencing visions?

  • @alejandroto3094
    @alejandroto3094Ай бұрын

    Chi Mii gwetch

  • @yarrow4012
    @yarrow4012 Жыл бұрын

    What nation is she from? Hiyhiy for the teachings 🙏🏽

  • @Firstthunder

    @Firstthunder

    Жыл бұрын

    Anishinaabe Nation.

  • @ShiningGalaxy01

    @ShiningGalaxy01

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Firstthunder Isn't the animikii the anishinaabe name for the thunder bird?

  • @SeasonsOFcolors
    @SeasonsOFcolors Жыл бұрын

    Hi and thank you for your videos they are very helpful for me . I was wondering if there is a way that I could ask Mother Nature on guidance about going back to school for cyber security. This AI that’s going on has me wondering if I’ll have a job or not in the future .

  • @doncarmack5132
    @doncarmack513221 күн бұрын

    I bet that deer didn’t think you were being “kind”

  • @andreanovelo4767
    @andreanovelo47677 ай бұрын

    1:11

  • @SeekingandBeing
    @SeekingandBeing7 ай бұрын

    ♒️ 💧 🌊 🧊 🙏🏼 💚 💥 💫

  • @AmusedSketchpad-mh1qz
    @AmusedSketchpad-mh1qz3 ай бұрын

    The woman and the dragon. Bible text.

  • @ruhied957
    @ruhied9574 ай бұрын

    This was how india was colonised

  • @slaturwinters1828
    @slaturwinters18286 ай бұрын

    the one thing I dont like about native stories and culture is the lack of equality for men. Makes the whole thing ever so sexist and downright hateful towards men.

  • @sayusayme7729
    @sayusayme77297 ай бұрын

    Thank you, just learning about my roots, many moons on Georgian Bay 🩵🪶 Longing to return one day

  • @zeropointconsciousness
    @zeropointconsciousness Жыл бұрын

    Sacred Sister Edna is a wonderful teacher and storyteller...I love this Chi Miigwetch. The first time I heard Anishinaabe teachings I started crying because some of them I had been doing intuitively and my spirit recognised others and the truth of our situation. They made me happy at the same time though. 🤍🎶

  • @janicekroeger1771

    @janicekroeger1771

    9 ай бұрын

    Up up

  • @Nufoundfriend8
    @Nufoundfriend82 жыл бұрын

    Thank You 🙏