The following remarks were given by Ivan Moose from Fox Lake Cree Nation at the Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearing Community Meeting in Split Lake.
“One of the councillors over the years in Split Lake mentioned stories about what his dad told him about the old lady that had her house bulldozed. That really happened. That really happened. They didn’t want to move, or resurvey around her further away from where this person lived, this old man lived. Rather than do that they said, well, move the house. That was our homes. People – when those people come there and start working, they called our homes shacks. Those shacks were our homes. They are a lot warmer than the place I’m living in now. But they moved their trailer into the bush, they were sitting in their roll of blankets crying.” – Ivan Moose, Fox Lake Cree Nation
Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (MCEC). Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearing Community Meeting: Tataskweyak Cree Nation. (December 9, 2013). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, MB. Page 545, lines 11-24. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/keeyask-generation-project/doc/Transcripts/Transcripts_-_Keeyask_Winnipeg_Hearing_Dec_9,2013.pdf
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