“Our elders from the community shared with us many stories of how beautiful the lands and waters were before the beginning of the first dam, Kettle, in our immediate area.”
“After his injury, he was never the same.”
“This one area here, we get quite a pressure ridge. Sometimes it will push up to about eight feet. Actually, a few years ago my brother was going up to his camp and ran into it with his kid. He got hurt quite bad.”
“On average during a flood year, kids will miss six weeks of school every year.”
“Our grade 12 graduates are coming out of there at a grade 9, 10, or 11 level, but not exceeding the grader 12 level to get into university or post secondary education.”
“They never did try to preserve that grave site. It is all under water…”
“We used to have the community site, there is grave sites under that water there. They never did try to preserve that grave site. It is all under water, maybe 20 feet under water.”
“Its [Pimicikamak’s] history is being washed away.”
“Our ancestors remains are constantly exposed from fluctuating water levels. Some have been reburied with some remediation measures.”