Origins
1:32 min. - The drum is above all a survival tool. It’s a direct link to the dream world. This world has the particularity of allowing the spirit to travel through all the different worlds that make up the universe.
Transcription
Narrator - For the Innu, a drum is above all, a tool for survival. It's a direct connection to the dream world.
Jean-Baptiste Bellefleur - This world has the particularity of allowing the spirit to travel through all the different worlds that make up the universe. Through the drum and dreams, we can reach the animal world, including Papakassik, master of the caribou.
Narrator - There is an ally, a friend within the drum, a voice that helps the hunter, that tells him where to find the caribou.
Jean-Baptiste Bellefleur - Mine is somewhere around here. Every hunter has one that can help him if he plays the drum. Red attracts the drum spirit, the ally from the dream world who will help the hunter find the caribou. Every hunter has one who can help him if he plays the drum.
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Origins
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- kanikamusht
- singer
- kanimishiht
- dancers
- mukutatsheu
- he handles the crooked knife
- pashaitsheuat
- they square off a tree to make something
- shitapitakanu teueikan
- they dress the drum
- teueikaniapi
- caribou hide for the drum
- tshitaimatsheu
- he sets the tone
- tshitaimuakanuat
- the drum is played to make them dance
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