 teach survival on the land mainly right from setting up the camp to fishing to hunting to trapping to language all mixed in one started out with my brothers and sisters my children and my nieces and nephews and other kids from the community they my children bring out their friends and they come with us depends on what time of the year we're going out that depends on what I'll be teaching based on the time of year means you're from here you belong here knowledge is going to be passed on to you in order for you to maintain the heritage and culture of our way for me my year starts in the fall that's when it's like the beginning I fly out in the fall time and then we stay out for at least two months in that time I start prepping for trapping I work on the camp and a lot of wood and a lot of fishing once trapping starts I'll start trapping I'm always having children with me pretty much every day whether it be an older son or a younger daughter so as I'm going through the day maybe checking nets or setting traps I'm explaining all this in our native language it's lots to do with health eat properly while a lot of wild food teach them about like medicine or how to treat wounds how to treat burns how to get dirt out of your eyes so it's lots of safety when the trapping starts we're continuously sharpening our axes and cleaning the traps to make it snap quicker more hair triggered so there's lots of danger to it at the same time as you're heading out to trap it's early in the fall you got to test all ice on the lake creek you're cleaning stumps off the road so you don't just to be cautious by the end of the day we got to put up another tent so that's that's pretty much how we're doing our thing from September to December after December we come back to town and then we start hunting hunt for moose caribou we always have to search for it the numbers are fewer so once we find tracks we'll set up a camp and then start tracking whatever we're hunting moose or caribou I teach my children about using firearms I start them out from about five six years old I'll wound the moose or a caribou then I let the child finish the animal off and then it starts to the butchering respecting the animal and his blood explaining why butchering the animal in the traditional way it comes out in a whole bunch of different parts once we get home make dry meat then separate all the joints layers of meat for roasting or boiling make and dry meat I name all the parts of the animal in the language whether it be the ribs heart brains at all the whole animal has native name to it and testines everything and then it goes on until about April we do beaver beaver traps rat traps when the water starts flowing and we'll shoot rats and beavers we do this until mid-June beginning of June and then when the ice is gone in the summer we start fishing a white fish trout the trout we fillet it we debone it we store it away and all white fish will make straight dry fish we hunt for moose in the summer again July August we usually get at least two moose in that time to preserve the meat in the warm weather that has to be taught to you and then it starts all over again back into the fall I teach it because it's what I'm most experienced in and there seems to be a battle with the lands and the governments and the aboriginal people and it's to show our heritage or culture that we were here will always be here you need to know how to survive in the environment so that is why I teach my children another youth for most of us education is a big problem it's a big issue throughout the north I was never too good at it so I've always been on the land so it's it's where I feel like I have my education I see what's going on in the schools with the education and they're they're way back they're having a lot of trouble and they got to have a way out to take care of themselves like because they're not gonna make it in the modern world so this is a way for them to continue and know how to take care of themselves more teaching on language and more teaching in craftsmen crafts snowshoes ice chisels all the tools that you need like clothes proper clothing so you need like moose hide and it takes a certain amount of skill to do stuff like that so kind of fading it needs to be picked up on more