General Adult Audience
On this page are two clips from Jeanne, sharing stories and teachings about the late beloved Metis Elder Jim Settee. The first clip from Jeanne is an introduction to watch before the film; the second, a wrap up for afterwards.
There are templates and activities to follow up after the wrap up clip in the general audience resources folder at the bottom of this page.
1. Introduction and Welcome
Jeanne welcomes you and introduces the film.
Two notes which may be helpful for you prior to watching the film:
1) Jim comes from a remarkable ancestry of Metis leaders, whose strength and love shone through his own life. Pivotal in this lineage is James Settee Senior, who honoured the traditional Cree and Metis ways, and was also the second Metis person to be ordained in the history of the Anglican church. He was an artist and author, who wrote one of the earliest accounts of Indigenous traditions, by an Indigenous author, in 1823, when he documented the life of his own Grandfather, a chief among the Cree nations of the Hudson Bay. You will see this lineage described in the early part of the film. If you wish, you can watch a clip of Jeanne describing this lineage (here). This lineage is also summarised in this Ancestry Summary document (here).
2) After the story of Jim’s lineage, at time code 12:20, you will hear an historical inaccuracy in the narration about residential school. The narrator says that Jim wanted to go to high school and so had to leave the tutelage of his father to attend the Onion Lake Residential School. In fact, Jim had to leave the tutelage of his father, a well respected school teacher, in 1920 because that year the Government of Canada made residential school compulsory for Indigenous children aged 7-15. Jim would have been 11 years old at the time.
Please enjoy screening the whole film, and then scroll below when you are done, for the wrap up clip.
2. Jim's Teachings: Wrap Up
There is a collection of youth, teacher, and adult audience responses in the folder below, which might be inspirational for you as a follow up, if you wish.
Thank you for your time and care for Jim’s teachings. May the stillness, love, and wisdom at the heart of his teaching support your own heart and journey.
