Fort McPherson - Northwest Territories
Oral History
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I pair relationship-centered interviewing with incisive editorial judgment to transform lived experience into shared cultural knowledge with enduring public and personal value.
“Put your hand on the tree, and you hold it there, and it’s gonna give you a power.”
-Joe McGregor
“Everybody had a good roar.”
-Amelia McGregor
“They came to the house trying three times to take my brother and sister, to send them off to residential school.”
-Joe Jacobs
“In order to create reconciliation within ourselves, Indigenous people must understand their past, their stories of survival and life.”
-Ellen Gabriel
“They told me that I was the wrong colour to work for the CBC during the Oka Crisis, so be it.”
-Nick Huard
“In those days, there weren’t many cars. Seems like everybody was walking or riding a bike.”
-Elaine Delaronde
“The oral tradition, you can’t misinterpret.”
-Tekarontake
“We found a way to mourn that was okay with us, that was when it rained. Because when it rains, nobody knows you’re crying.”
-Nick Huard
“Very few people in their life, they live old, and they never witness how to milk a cow.”
-Joe McGregor
“Junk food was completely banned from the school. And surprisingly, the kids loved it.”
-Amelia McGregor
“We come from Spirit World, and we come into this physical world to have an experience.”
-Amelia McGregor
