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The legacy of matriarchs in the Yukon First Nations | Kluane Adamek

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. In the Yukon First Nations, women lead; generations of matriarchs have guided and directed the community by forging trade agreements, creating marriage alliances and ensuring business for all. Yukon Regional Chief Kluane Adamek urges others to follow in the…

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In the Yukon First Nations, women lead; generations of matriarchs have guided and directed the community by forging trade agreements, creating marriage alliances and ensuring business for all. Yukon Regional Chief Kluane Adamek urges others to follow in the legacy of her people by putting more women at the table and encouraging them to seek spaces where their perspectives can create the biggest impact for a better tomorrow.

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  1. Bathrezz1

    January 4, 2021 at 12:16 pm

    Looks like they fed you well

    • Parthas0

      January 4, 2021 at 12:34 pm

      cheap

    • Matthew Morton

      January 4, 2021 at 3:48 pm

      Killer Whale Tribe Eats What?

  2. El Bicho

    January 4, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    Shut up, clowns.

  3. El Bicho

    January 4, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    I remember when TED was about science and facta.

    • Amanda Santiago

      January 4, 2021 at 2:00 pm

      I *hate* the spam emails guy.

    • Anton Wereta

      January 4, 2021 at 9:07 pm

      @MegaProudAlbanian are you okay? He’s referring to how ted used to talk about science and the future etc not eternal feminist crap.

    • MegaProudAlbanian

      January 4, 2021 at 9:12 pm

      @Anton Wereta TED used to talk about a lot of stuff, not just Tech News.

      Sociology and anthropology has been a huge part of TED since forever. Its just that you guys are too easily triggered by anything which even remotely hints racially aware or feminist issues.

      Changing of political power dynamics regarding traditional roles IS talking about the future.

    • clearmenser

      January 4, 2021 at 9:42 pm

      @MegaProudAlbanian I’d say, by my observations, people are getting triggered when the focus is more on feelings than practical matters. Jonathan Haidt and Gad Saad go into it a bit in their work and editorializations. The Coddling of the American Mind and The Rightious Mind for the later and The Parasitic Mind for the latter.

    • MegaProudAlbanian

      January 4, 2021 at 9:50 pm

      @clearmenser Problem is social issues are inherently about “feelings” . There isnt any quantifiable oppression meter and when you do x,y or z actions you remove it. Things like representation and diversity of perspectives will always be about the psychological effect on affected groups, and that IS a practical manner, but there are tpo many radicalized chuds on the internet that feel threatened by feminjsm

  4. Kerem

    January 4, 2021 at 1:04 pm

    KEKW

    • Jeeoo

      January 4, 2021 at 1:32 pm

      LULW 🤝 KEKW

  5. True Crime Queen TV

    January 4, 2021 at 1:12 pm

    2021 WILL BE WAY BETTER THAN 2020! 😉🙌🙏😇❤️HAPPY NEW YEAR

  6. Zakkeus Trepanier

    January 4, 2021 at 1:35 pm

    So, Patriarchy is bad and misogynistic but matriarchy is great and powerful?

    • Miriam Perkins

      January 5, 2021 at 2:21 pm

      @Alex Rguez Wanting to remove barriers to leadership roles for women, is not blaming men for my problems. You’ve completely generalised and put a movement in a box based on lack of understanding, and the disinformation coming from the Right. Diversify your media; learn something.

    • Matthew Morton

      January 5, 2021 at 2:47 pm

      @Miriam Perkins lady….no one cares….and no one heres wants to sleep with you….

      So again…. *no one cares* lol

    • Alex Rguez

      January 5, 2021 at 4:21 pm

      @Miriam Perkins wow i had one misspelled word, I’m sorry Mrs Perkins did I fail the exam?

    • Alex Rguez

      January 5, 2021 at 4:46 pm

      @Miriam Perkins dawg you got it all wrong, no one wants to keep up a barrier between men and women in the workplace. Men are tired of women like you mouning about men being the problem of everything that happens in their lives including not enough women in higher positios of power. I mean the woman in the vid even got the definition of leadership wrong yet she wants to be in that position.

      Also this is a nonpolitical issue, it has nothing to do with your political beliefs nor anyone’s.

    • Alex Rguez

      January 5, 2021 at 4:58 pm

      @Miriam Perkins no one ever said they’re frightened about putting down the barrier between both genders, in fact I’d say most men in here would agree with putting it down, the thing you won’t ever get cos you’re too polarized with the feminist (now formally known as the feminazy) movement is that men are always put to blame for women’s issues and we want you lot to realize that but, like you already showed to every man here, you don’t really listen.

    • Miriam Perkins

      January 6, 2021 at 4:48 pm

      @Alex Rguez I think the main issue here is this idea that feminism is about blame. It really is a shame that you have been so influenced by the right wing media, that you’ve formed such an inaccurate perception. A small group of crazies are highlighted by the media, incorrectly made as to represent an entire movement. We scream from the top of our lungs that we DO NOT identify with these ideals, but are ignored.

      Not once, has Kluane, or myself, blamed men. Feminism simply asks, decisions that which affects women, should have women involved in such decisions.

      Feminism. Does. Not. Blame. Men.
      You have been manipulated by the mainstream media, that highlights crazy woman, that do NOT represent the movement.

      There are social issues that affect all genders. These issues involve both men and woman.

    • Alex Rguez

      January 6, 2021 at 6:49 pm

      @Miriam Perkins I’m not gonna repeat myself again cos you´re clearly not listening, this has nothing to do with politics and if you want me to be honest, I neither support the left nor the right parties, I think both parties have right and wrong points, also I don’t trust any media, I look at what they show and do my own research. Nevertheless, men know, no matter what your political view is, what equality means, equal opportunity for everyone (I´m not gonna generalize cos I do agree on the fact that some men think women shouldn´t be equal). I don´t think feminism blames men, I think that some women that support the movement blame men and that made the initial movement to shift into the mess that it is nowadays.

      I watched the part where she mentions the patriarchy again and yes she didn´t say, feminism blames men that´s true but she said hey the patriarchy and misogyny ways of ruling society must change while mentioning that in her nation, trade relationships, marriage alliances and businesses work were managed by the matriarchy. The problem when you compare this to our worldwide society is that without men all those things wouldn´t even have existed and the new feminist movement doesn´t even acknowledge the important rule men had and still have in society.

      You stated that a small minority of women are the feminazis, they are not the real feminists, yet every 8M all you see in the media is millions of women marching and supporting the movement and there nothing wrong with that, in fact, that’s great, the problem comes when no “real feminists” or the mainstream media even support men on the 19N too, the women that do support men wanting equality for both genders are the real feminists not the majority of women who think they only have it harder. Like you assumed I only consume right mainstream media, I´m going to assume that you only consume left mainstream media and what do you commonly see in those sites, all men are bad, you should believe every woman, women have it harder, men don´t have issues in society and so on and so forth.

      Yes there are social, economical and even cultural issues that affect both and again nobody is saying women don’t deserve those higher positions of power, what most men are saying is that instead of just giving that position to you as if you earned it out of nowhere like equality suggests equal opportunity, you should work as hard as the men that are in those positions to get there.  

      I don’t want to drag this further if you don’t want to listen or don’t want to see the issue then good on yah, have a great one.

  7. MasterMazeProductions

    January 4, 2021 at 2:27 pm

    I love hearing indigenous people use their native languages more

  8. wtfisthis451

    January 4, 2021 at 2:34 pm

    all I know about Yukon, was based on the cartoon, Yvon of the Yukon.

  9. pinegulf

    January 4, 2021 at 2:41 pm

    What’s with the editing? Am I missing something…

  10. maxpolaris99

    January 4, 2021 at 4:09 pm

    I look forward to all the feminists moving to Yukon

  11. Lorne Beck

    January 4, 2021 at 4:18 pm

    Love to see this woman survive in the wild like her ancestors

  12. Aj Miles

    January 4, 2021 at 4:18 pm

    That’s why you didn’t flourish, you’re tribe is a matriarch. You’re almost gone…BANISHED by UNCLE SAM the beacon of patriarchy in western society. Good riddance.

  13. Lisa Love Ministries

    January 4, 2021 at 5:37 pm

    Seek God’s will daily.
    Proverbs 8:17💞
    Proverbs 9:10

  14. Duffy Elmer

    January 4, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    It would have been nice to have the Tlingit speech included in the closed captions, especially since you already bothered to caption and translate the rest of the video. I have no idea what she said.

    • chas ames

      January 4, 2021 at 9:44 pm

      She follows in English.
      As do most mixed language videos.

  15. lascassascatfish

    January 4, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    Where’s the powerful nation state of the Yukon Indians again. Guess that matriarchal leadership failed to hold a flame to patriarchal European leadership and lead. Tell me again why matriarchy is the way??

    • chas ames

      January 4, 2021 at 9:43 pm

      Tell me why that is so important to you.

    • lascassascatfish

      January 4, 2021 at 9:56 pm

      Because she’s advocating for matriarchal leadership as living example of it failure. Did you even watch it?

  16. Anton Wereta

    January 4, 2021 at 9:04 pm

    Ted is a religious organization now.

    • clearmenser

      January 4, 2021 at 9:36 pm

      The D.I.E. Religion. Diversity Inclusion Equity. When Post Structuralists and Neo Marxists decided to do something, they really get to it.

  17. TheVigilante2000

    January 4, 2021 at 9:08 pm

    I get it; Patriarch bad, Matriarch good. Forget about equality.

    • Josh Rauch

      January 4, 2021 at 10:27 pm

      you oversimplify and misconstrue her message. that being said, she incorrectly placed women on a pedestal in relation to men and that showed in her talk

    • ArmySister2

      January 5, 2021 at 1:39 pm

      That’s not what she said at all. She said it’s important for women to be equally represented and involved in important decisions that effect them. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

    • TheVigilante2000

      January 5, 2021 at 8:33 pm

      @ArmySister2 You’re being disingenuous. Since all things effect woman, then all things must be decided by woman. Presumably for the benefit of women (since men can’t look out for women, women can’t look out for men).

  18. Matthew Morycinski

    January 5, 2021 at 6:36 am

    Beautiful message. Respects from a settler family in Vancouver area.

  19. Kevin Wells

    January 5, 2021 at 7:22 am

    Thank you for an inspiring talk. I wish more communities, even just neighborhoods (like the one I grew up in) had concerned people influencing them in their decisions. The world needs to be more like a neighborhood, that is concerned about one another.

  20. J

    January 5, 2021 at 3:30 pm

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  21. B Welkinator

    January 5, 2021 at 4:29 pm

    “For those who identify….” Hey, I “identify” as Native American…. send me a check.

  22. SpaghettiMitch

    January 5, 2021 at 6:31 pm

    Cookie cut

  23. Lizzie Kozarik

    January 5, 2021 at 9:51 pm

    she looks like raini rodriguez

  24. John Ghilduta

    January 6, 2021 at 10:41 pm

    Do not be a leader because you are a woman be a leader because you have what’s necessary to be a leader.

  25. Miya T

    January 9, 2021 at 12:22 pm

    This has become one of my precious TED talks so far and Kluane, I heard you. I listened to your words, and messages which has reached out to my heart here.
    Thanks so much for taking a step forward to share your ideas with us. And you are so beautiful and brave. Thanks.

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