It goes back to like the fur trade days. Patrick Cuttingham was very much involved with that, in Bay Company and he came over here and married a Metis woman. But he was at the like Red River and in Winnipeg and he eventually landed… Read More »A Big Family
But the stories about Lake Saint Anne itself, they’re very spiritual based about the different site and of the different kinds of animals that were in the Lake it said that it was full of spirits and the healing powers of the waters that’s the… Read More »Lake Saint Anne
Well, I think that the young people, they need to be approaching their community elders, especially here in Cree country. I live in Edmonton right now because I’m going to school. There’s such a wealth of knowledge with the people here and I think sometimes,… Read More »Approaching Elders
My family, my father, saw me tell stories and he was very happy and he really encouraged me to continue to do that, you know. He said I should be talking more to my elders and asking about those traditional stories, but mostly I tell… Read More »Inspired To Tell Stories
Traditional storytelling, yeah for sure, is something as time goes on. As time goes by, the world is just going a bit too fast, especially with people. Certain groups of people, like Native people are trying to deal with that. I think more and more… Read More »The Importance of Traditional Storytelling
There’s different countries: there’s Alaska, there’s Siberia, there’s Greenland, and there’s Canada. So we’re basically, I guess, the same people. I think that there’s a lot of similarities, like in terms of what we eat and the things behind that. We’re people from the snow… Read More »Life In The North
I believe that we shouldn’t just talk. I could talk to them, but I think I will now take the responsibility of being a role model. I had difficulty with that, but now its okay. I was often with the kids. I worked with them;… Read More »A Role Model
You know, I grew up with not much of an idea of what we could do in terms of arts, because the school system is really not that, in terms of arts. I always thought there should be something, and I never had the idea… Read More »Accomplishment Through Art
I talk to audiences of all ages because, you know, the thing about traditional English storytelling is that the stories were told over and over, and over again and they were not told, you know, just strictly to children. I think when I was a… Read More »A True Storyteller
You know we all have our heroes of course, and as Inuit we also did have heroes. One of our greatest heroes was a man called Kitheeok. This man, you know, there is stories about him all over the north because Inuit inhabit almost the… Read More »Inuit Heroes