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	Podcast:		Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)
	Episode:		2022 CBC Massey Lectures \| # 1: On Language
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:08
	Publish Date:		2022-11-14 09:10:00
	Description:		In his 2022 CBC Massey Lectures, acclaimed Cree writer Tomson Highway explores fundamental questions of human existence through the lens of Indigenous mythologies, and contrasts them with the ideas from ancient Greece and Christianity. In the first lecture, Highway argues that language shapes the way we see the world. Without language, we are lost creatures in a meaningless existence — which is why we tell stories.
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