“She told me her husband almost drowned. She was able to save him. This has traumatized the family. So you can hear, this is one of the adverse effects facing my people. Hydro continues to manufacture risk on our lands and waters.”
“How are we going to be keepers of our Aski if there is only destruction left behind from the dams?”
“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.”