Archbishop Mark MacDonald speaks about "the poor" in Ojibwe

In early June, 2021, Archbishop Mark L. MacDonald spoke to a Carleton University class of MPNL graduate students about poverty and Ojibwe society. (Since 2007, the Archbishop MacDonald has served as pastoral leader to Indigenous Peoples in the Anglican Church of Canada, and he's been the National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop since 2019.) In this video, he says that poverty, as we understand it in the nonprofit sector and in Western society, didn't exist in Ojibwe society, because the Ojibwe gathered and shared resources. In fact, in old Ojibwe-English dictionaries, "the poor" meant "lazy," in the sense that someone in an Ojibwe community lacked something only if they were lazy; there was no word for "poor" in the Ojibwe language. In today's dictionaries, however, there is an Ojibwe word for "poor," because colonialism created poverty conditions in Ojibwe society.