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Indigenous Practices and Land Respect

when they know somebody move say out Lake somebody move move their two families the on from travier Lake don't go there and interfere with them with their trap line Lake but for visiting each other they go on the time they want respect is the most I think uh I myself say it's the law for our people under the umbrella of respect which is the law if you respect you will not steal you will not uh lie you will not cheat you will not disrespect other [Music] people all he used to he had no gun and he used to make fence with trees and Grand with C skin he said that he said for every come just like into the [Music] one men always go ahead of make [Music] Trail he find care where it is don't bother it and he come home and say it then Chief say from his T tell everybody this guy spot caribo so we all going to hunt if you see Caribou you don't shoot it you got to come back and then everybody comes back and they make a plan for hunt everybody go there and hunt that's the way it is you can just go and shoot car by yourself next morning he get up and he just shout out to people to go men's especially to go where he tell them and they get care [Music] [Music] [Music] you never see men's at home you know every day early in the morning 5 6:00 out the door never see them till late in the evening after dark sometimes to come back with moose something like that just starts hunting sometimes come back with nothing do well they would sure make sure that everybody had respect for each other and that they they respected the land like you know this was their store kind of thing and they they did they were conserv cons conserved whatever they they ate you never heard of wastage of animals or anything like that hard no government no welfare nothing yeah you have to go traing and you have to whatever money you make you have to by Grocery and all [Music] [Music] that [Music] fore fore fore I remember my my dad my mom and Marge when they go out and look at their traps all their kids go with them down to the baby all day we're around the lakes and then we get to a place where it's nice to have fire we have fire there and eat there and keep on going like that [Music] rabit Beaver rat fish that's what we live off no don't know what's white man food [Music] our relationship with the land that's where self-government comes from we occupied certain lands traditionally and we took care of those lands and our right to govern oursel uh derives again from being on the land I don't know how many families sometimes three four families go together so might go to travier Lake with four families and towards what they call in in which and the call Ito and that's another good fish Le and that's where they another buch move there now in the fall October they're going to go over to Rock River now the chap they with them do day by day they move about 18 miles thing they together the chief is there with them maybe 10 family they spend all winter out there same thing in the C they take very gently with it then they go out way down halfway hungry L they call me some people they spread out as they make dry meat we get Mose anything Mar that's their [Music] money well many times we had hard time right down to nothing but we have to trust warm and start out the door again and try and get something you always take care of the animals and the Animals the land out there it's what is given to you and you have to take care of it so that if you take care of it with respect it will also take care of you