The following remarks were given by Marie Henderson from Fox Lake Cree Nation at the MCEC Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment Community Meeting: Fox Lake Cree Nation.
“We don’t even have hardly any place to look for the medicines of what we used to use, because it’s not there. I know there was some elders in the community that made trips in the bush to go and gather up their medicines. Just so many things that we lost because of the dams. We can’t get it back.” – Marie Henderson, Fox Lake Cree Nation
Testimony of Marie Henderson from Fox Lake Cree Nation. MCEC Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment Community Meeting: Fox Lake Cree Nation. (January 19, 2018). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Best Western Hotel in Winnipeg, MB. Page 13. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/regional-cumulative-effects-assesment/doc/Transcripts/Transcript_webredactCECFOXLAKE.pdf
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