Fort McPherson - Northwest Territories

Oral History

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Grounded in trust and careful listening, 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.”

“Everybody had a good roar.”

“They came to the house trying three times to take my brother and sister, to send them off to residential school.”

“In order to create reconciliation within ourselves, Indigenous people must understand their past, their stories of survival and life.” 

“they told me that I was the wrong colour to work for the CBC during the Oka Crisis, so be it.”

“In those days, there weren’t many cars. Seems like everybody was walking or riding a bike.”

“The oral tradition, you can’t misinterpret.”

“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.”

“Very few people in their life, they live old, and they never witness how to milk a cow.”

“We come from Spirit World, and we come into this physical world to have an experience.”

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