The following remarks were given by Noah Massan from Fox Lake Cree Nation at the Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings.
“Everybody in our community, before Hydro come, everybody help each other. There were no such thing as – now we got numbers, trapline holders, there were no such thing in our community. Everybody in our community helped themselves, like help each other. Like somebody wanted to go set a trapline, we never said anything. Like this trapline that I have got now has been passed on.” – Noah Massan, Fox Lake Cree Nation
Testimony of Noah Massan from Fox Lake. Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (MCEC). Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings. (December 9, 2013). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, MB. Volume 24; page 5414. 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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