 There's like literally no radio station here driving me nuts we have like one CD it's a country CD and there's one radio station in 3d8 territory and it's country I guess country it is My name is Marina Nokoho. This weekend my role is to organize the annual 3d8 festivities. It's amazing for him to make this trip out to see our work. You'd be brave enough to be in Denner territory. I didn't want to say that. So what would you guys call yourselves in like Denne? Denne Sakhina. So you know with the Blackfoot we call ourselves like Nitsitibi. You know like the real people like we're like human beings right? What does your interpretation mean? That's exactly what Denne Sakhina means in our language. The real people. That's awesome. That's why I was kind of looking at you weird because... What's happening here? We're having a breakfast today. The mosquitoes are having a breakfast today too apparently. You know when I was a kid all treaty meant to me was you know go to our power or get our five dollars. Then he's kind of start realizing what you know what it means like what actually happened. You kind of start getting mad. Our ancestors basically signed an agreement right? A treaty to work. Work with people to share right? That was supposed to be it you know. I don't think their intention was for us to be to be in this place right now. I'm pretty sure that wasn't their intent. When you look at us sitting here on reserve. And we're celebrating treaty days and we have no idea what it is that we're celebrating. All we get is the five dollars. I can only think about myself, my children and my grandchildren. And I would want them to know what the intent was when we signed the treaty. What the treaty was all about. Who signed it? Who the signatories were? And why our ancestors signed that treaty? Why our grandfather signed it? So the intent is that we would share. We would share the resources and we would respect our land. But we would still be able to maintain our way of life. We would still be people. We would still be considered human beings. And continue on in the way that we we lived our traditional ways. Maintain our culture our language our history. Our understanding is we made a treaty with the government that was being built at the time. Or it was going to be built at the time. The Dominion of Canada. And the laws would be followed to protect our land. It's taken over a hundred years but now the consultation law exists. There was a lot of promises that were attached to it. That have never been carried into the future. And I think that's a problem that needs to be dealt with in some time. In the twenty years, thirty years ahead of us now. And at the same time our health, our education, our well-being would be looked after by the government. That was the deal that was made 125 years ago. We've been involved with gas production here since 1980. There was been drilling done before that. Well we since 1959, 1959. It was the first drilling rig that came through this area. And over the years people used to go to work for a labor job, one or two jobs and really low pay. And we wouldn't get to take part much much than that. Today in 2016 even in this really low price oil economy we're still doing a lot of business out in the oil field. We own I think 27 companies that are locally between local and the band companies. And it covers everything from security to the drilling rigs now. We don't have a very good relationship with industry right now. All we see is that the destruction. And how it has, how it's keeping us from maintaining our ways. When we say our way of life we speak our language. The foods that we eat are all our traditional foods. We go out, we fish, we set snares for rabbit. Now I have pizza and McDonald's. And that ain't great. The land, how it's been opened up. We've lost a lot of hunting, we've lost a lot of fishing. We've lost a lot of this kind of stuff that the culture shock on the people is quite high. We're going through a transformation right now. Even being this far south of Fort McMurray there's still impacts that are apparent on the river here. I was out on a boat ride with Maurice and he showed me that over the years the levels of the river have changed because of extraction from the oil companies. The wildlife is being driven out by all sorts of industries not just the oil and gas industry but also the gravel pits and the towns that are popping up, the camps that are popping up here and there. So a lot of the time they're having to go out four or five hours just to go catch a moose or to go kind of travel farther to get the fish that they need to eat. In order for Canada to really succeed and enjoy the riches of the land the treaty has to be looked at and what it means and how it's actually today. We need to get to the point of partnerships of ownership and getting that so that our people can live with the same quality as the next people. First they have to be able to see us as human beings. Right now we're not seen as people. We're just obstacles in their way. We are more than willing to work with them but it has to be at the same level.