The following remarks were given by Gordon Brass Sr. from Pine Creek First Nation at the Bipole III Public Hearing Community Meeting: Daupin.
“It helps you. You have to know exactly what kind of medicine that you pick. There’s lots of elders, Pine Creek and all over these First Nations, that’s what they use for medicines. I don’t see a doctor when I’m sick, I heal myself with medicine. And I’m turning 80 now. I’m still active because I don’t — all I do is use herbs for medicine. And that’s the biggest problem we have with all these things that — Hydro and all that, they kill our medicines, especially if they go through the lines, and the lines, they eat up everything. That’s what our Chief was talking about. Now we have to go some place where there’s no hydro to get what we want for medicines. It’s a very important thing to have.” – Gordon Brass Sr., Pine Creek First Nation
Testimony of Gordon Brass Sr. from Pine Creek First Nation. Bipole III Public Hearing Community Meeting. (October 22, 2012). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Watson Arts Centre in Dauphin, MB. Volume 9; page 1528. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/biopole-III-mb-hydro/doc/Transcripts/cecdauphin.pdf
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