“Sometimes it is hard to talk about things that have happened because sometimes I just don’t want to think about it, because it’s too painful. I’ve seen a lot of violence.”
“And one Hydro guy come running to my dad, hey, you can’t put your boat here, you have to belong to the marina club.”
“But my dad didn’t take no crap… I just took all of the fish off and put them in the truck. Because that’s where we put our boat, it is our trapline.”
“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.”
“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.”
“That’s when the welfare system came in there, took away pride in people.”
“None of them heard of welfare back then. There was no such thing as welfare, because we survived by hunting and trapping.”