 I went to school and got into high level and talked to the little ones, well all the different classes, how we went, what kind of like the school that we went to when we started school and it was nice to talk to the kids to tell them that how I started school and how important the education is nowadays you know because them days when I started school I couldn't speak a word of English so I went to school for four years and then I left school. My language was Cree yeah it's it's Cree and then I that's all the language we knew I couldn't speak a word of English I didn't know yes or no and I started school and I came to move to we were out of town and we moved into town and then we had to start school because we were getting family allowance then we went to school and we go home for lunch if we had something to eat there that is and uh and then we go back yes we went to school I couldn't understand the teacher nor the teachers couldn't understand me because I was speaking Cree and and uh it was a bad experience I never liked that part but I mean it took a little while before I was able to say a few words in English and then from there you learn from the kids other kids teach you you know like you know so that's I went from there and that's why I have hard times speaking English now because uh I still think that when I speak English people laugh at me you know so I'm always a little bit shy to uh to speak English well actually the little kids didn't ask too much too many questions they just asked me what grade I went to I think and what kind of school I went to and what I had for a teacher and what we did in school and that was it mostly I just told them that I had a bad experience because I couldn't speak English and that I had to and I was already coming nine years old so it was but I picked up English and and that's and and another thing that the kids uh they asked me I play a little bit of music I play fiddle so I play fiddle for these kids every class I go to them and they ask me questions and then ask me how how long I've been playing violin or how old when I was starting and so I play a fiddle for them and they enjoy that they even dance so I think I think mostly to talk about education is so important nowadays it's very very important because us us people nowadays if we have to make living off the land we can do it we cannot make it because we have to have we have to be educated to be able to get good jobs and that's only that's only life nowadays otherwise it's it's it's nothing for for the people like they have to they have to go to school and they have to learn and and then they can get a job and once once you get the education you got it made you know because then you can find a job then you know you can keep on going to school and finally you can you know uh tell the what you are going to say was uh you know once you get that education and keep going to school and finally know what you want to do with your life then you go from there it would probably help them because they kind of if they understand what I was trying to say to them they probably would would have an idea what what could be done and once you can you can do anything in this life if you have a chance to do it you can do anything you want to be with education especially so if the kids want to like they love music if they want to play fiddle it's there they can learn it now it's and my myself with we just had no entertainment no new tv them days so we just learned to play music play fiddle and I think it helped the kids no they had they had a place set up in the gym and but first we went there they set up lunch for us they gave us lunch and then they tell me they tell us to go what class we'll come to our in the gym what class is going to be there first then we start from the little ones and then go up to high rates I think I had about three four classes there you know like come take big big turns coming and then in the end they all get together and they they dance around there so yeah it is because of the music that you yeah the music I gave them they enjoyed that very much and they asked me how long have you been playing when do you start playing I should I start playing I was eight years old I said and so I play whatever they want to hear so you were self-taught yes by year yeah I think you're they're willing to listen to what we have to say they want to keep listening they they really thank me very much for coming out and be able to talk to the kids a little bit I didn't talk as much as my wife did but see I I didn't mostly they're fiddling in tell them what education is all about I feel quite comfortable because I'm telling the truth when you're telling the truth you know it's easy to speak out well I I just think I just I just think we hit that part a little bit about education was important like we can't keep on living the way we used to live off the land and we can't do that I think it's mostly we have to go the way the white man teaching us to do it now but we can stick still stay with our culture and stuff and hunt or if we get chance but now we're not even hunting hardly because they we don't have a place to hunt because the land is all taken up pretty much in our area anyway to me I can't see it because I don't know what good it's gonna do anybody because we're not gonna ever use it even if we go through it I don't see how we could use that and what's used to train people in our way when we're we have to live in the different different style of life like like we can't hunt we can't trap and that's our life to trap and hadn't move around that was our life but now we can't do that we have to we have to stay one place and stay stay there and and and live like the way the other people live keep going keep going to school and make yourself some something out of yourself that's the only way now otherwise we got other people coming into our land and and taking over and we're we're left with nothing we cannot how are we gonna live here education the most important thing in our in our time year now and then to go forward with it it's I can't see any other any other thing any other way it's easy now for kids because the kids already have lots of experience they can speak English from the time they're born and I had eight children and I did not want them to speak Cree because people we couldn't speak we you know had such tough time trying to speak Cree with you know I mean English not Cree but from Cree to English to change that like and actually English is very easy to learn but that's why I never taught my kids to speak Cree and I'm kind of sorry now because they should they should be able to speak Cree that language I think is all right if because people can still talk is the language you know I mean that's wrong I don't see anything wrong with that I I started out the hard way I started working I never trapped in my life and I liked hunt but I never trapped I never because I know trapping was not good and I see there was not going to be trapped at all times because there's so many people how where is the animals going to come from to kill off the animals and I didn't like it I didn't want to do it so I started working and I started working when I was coming 15 years oldness in the Swami login camps and I worked till I was let's see 1979 I think I was 59 years old or 49 years old something like that and anyway then that's only that's only way you gotta that's only thing I can say that that's how I started out and that's the only way you can do it no other way I can't see it me other way I would be good if they could see what I if I could tell my whole life story would but I haven't got time for that so it's a long long road like I want to learn to I know how to make moose hides but I never really entered but I helped making moose hides and make dry meat and I can do that yet I would like to pass that on you know I you know you I don't know how to cut the meat you're gonna make dry meat you buy dry meat in the storage it's not cut right you can't eat it it's like soon rubber I would like to see more our people getting into the law and and and become leaders in the governments and get into that stuff so we can all work together I think it would be better for our people yeah instead of getting other people from different countries and trying to bring them here and start to run our country it's a they say this is our oh canada we've had sense to play this for the for the uh for the students but I did play one called lonesome lonesome indian okay awesome you want to play a little bit of that