Mailey

Mailey is a 12-year old girl from the Cree Nation of Chisasibi, but she lives in Montreal, Quebec. In her room, she shows us the special blanket her Great-Grandmother gave to her, and plays us a tune on her guitar. We meet her family and her two budgies, and then Mailey shows us how far away her home community of Chisasibi is - it takes two whole days to drive there! After Mailey and her sister explain a unique Cree tradition called the walking-out ceremony, she and her friend Kay go skateboarding and practice volleyball. Finally, Mailey and her family visit a teepee in Kahnawake that urban Indigenous people in Montreal can go to for special occasions. They show us how to make bannock over the fire and cook a goose in the traditional Sagabon way! Mailey's special word is "kawiitahiitakuch" which means "joke" in the Cree language.