“In the 1940s when I was living, I was just young, everybody was okay, there was not much sickness. Everybody is okay until the Hydro moved in, everything happening.”
“Knowledge is truly power, but sometimes the truth is hard to hear.”
“….story after story about sexual violence and physical violence made me sick to my stomach.”
“There are many stories that haven’t been told.”
“…we have completely forgotten what happened to the people that lived in Gillam when Hydro first came up. And these are the people that we should be concentrating on.”
“Previous Hydro developments brought social and human destruction that can be likened to communities in war zones.”
“There has yet to be a single criminal charge laid for criminal offences that happened during this time.”
“I know it may seem hard to understand and make the connection of how Hydro took this away.”
“But if you sit with us and listen with your hearts […] you will understand.”