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In 2017, we were still working out how to present It Is Ours with the SPS Indigenous Ensemble as the finale for their Kimimila Spring showcase performances. Verses would come, verses would go. Krystle Pederson, Darrell Paskimin, Lancelot Knight and I were blocking the song at the SPSD 2nd floor FNIM rehearsal space, and had a lovely collective musical moment that seemed to want to go forever. It was as if time continued to march along, but we were unstuck from it, enjoying a perpetual present together- there was no past and there would be no future. There's no magic or medicine in the world like that.

Eventually we realized the water in the kettle was ready to make tea...

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It all started with a vision that broke through one day and left me to question, to ponder, to pray. The medicine man stands silently, his back against a tree – bowing his head, tears of red I can see. Hey hey hey

So many times I've heard myself say that the colonial fathers just left too much grey; but I spoke out of my ignorance and I spoke out of spite –
I betrayed how little privilege knows of the wrong side of the rights.

But this is not my story, it is ours.
This is not my story but it is ours.

There are thousands around him all dressed the same with feathers and paint and pride to reclaim. But one by one they join in with the bowing and the tears and then as I watch, one by one disappears. Hey hey hey

The truth of reconciliation kept me up night after night – no longer in the dark and unprotected in the light. There's nothing like some words to paint a picture so true – those of survivors with nothing left to lose.

No one scooped me from my home
No one took my hope away
No one sought to civilize me from my people's ancient ways
No one broke my spirit with violence
No one silenced me with fear of a coming retribution should I whisper in someone's ear.

But the blood on the soil cries out from the ground

And is dried by the same wind that carries away the sound...

This is not my story, it is ours.

This is not my story, it is ours.

This is not my story, it is ours. It is ours.
This is not my story but it is ours.

A little child came and sat beside me in the park with rainbows on her face and peace in her heart; and we listened to the music and we watched the dancers dance and I realized that reconciliation has a chance.

This is all our story.
It is ours.

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from It Is Ours​/​Onimito (bewildernest remix feat. Darrell Paskimin, Lancelot Knight, Krystle Pederson​)​- single, released June 21, 2021
Darryl Dozlaw- voice, guitar
Darrell Paskimin- flute, voice, hand drum
Lancelot Knight- voice, guitar
Krystle Pedson- voice, hand drum

Captured at SPSD 2nd Floor FNIM unit rehearsal space, Saskatoon, SK on an iPhone.

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Darryl Dozlaw Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Darryl Dozlaw is a Saskatoon (Treaty 6) singer-songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist. He records as Bewildernest (a collaborative, genre-nonspecific electronic recording context) or simply under his own name for singer/songwriter oriented material. Dozlaw also writes and plays as a member of Oscar's Hollow (Saskatoon based alt-country rock band). ... more

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