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Julia describes the importance of teaching traditional crafts in Michif to maintaining culture and language.
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Julia reminisces about her grandmother’s knitting.
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Tom describes the importance of knowing the “old ways” in times of hardship.
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Ella discusses the importance of sewing in her family growing up.
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Ella shares her husband’s thoughts on their grandson and choosing a partner.
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Ella talks about the regional diversity in moccasin styles.
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Esther describes learning from her mother to do laundry, sewing, and beadwork and that stories accompanied this learning.
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Esther, Francis, and Ella ponder the correct terms for the different materials used in making moccasins.
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Julia remembers learning to sew from her grandmother.
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Cecile sang when she sewed but got a needle in her finger and though others were there she took it out herself.