 I'll switch back and forth with my dental language, because that way people will be able to understand what I'm saying. I'll switch back and forth with my dental language, because that way people will be able to understand what I'm saying. I'll switch back and forth with my dental language, because that way people can understand what I'm saying. Dene Sotine language, you know hei a tie, it's been around for centuries. Hoa means we have room for people. We don't have a word like English, welcome, but we say hoa. The timeline of our Dene Sotine language here is about 8,000 to 12,000 years ago, the Northern Prairie region of what is now called Canada. All of those people up in the north from all the way now, what is BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and all the way down. Where our Dene Sotine people lived. From 1620s the initial European contact with the Dene Sotine established. That was when my great-great-grandparents lived in the teapies made by either caribou hide or moose hide. And everything was done from the moose hide, all our clothing, all our shelters, moccasins. From 1689 on, the Hudson Bay Company attempted to establish trading relationships with the Dene Sotine by constructing a trading post. As you all know, the people from the far north, the Hudson Bay Company has been in existence since 91670. And back then we now know where the Churchill River is and that's where our Dene Sotine with the Cree people start making that railroad. And that trading post was the main gateway to all the other European countries. And that's why you saw all those queens and princesses with those big fur coats, arctic hats, Dene people trapped those. From 1715 the trading between the Dene Sotine and the Hudson Bay Company firmly established. As you all heard back then, Dene Sotine, long time ago, with a trapper, with one gun, and those guns were about this high. And he had to pile all his furs till it reached the height of that gun so he could get that to use for his hunting. Imagine how many furs that would be. From 1780 to 1790, the Hudson Bay Company established the trading post along the Dene Sotine and southern borders. So everything, and that's when, in 1781 to 1783, the small parks, just like the epidemic today, killed thousands of us. In 1789, the Dene Sotine Treaty with the feds that granted them hunting, fishing rights, as well as reserve land. You all know that history. The depth of that plow was what our land was. Underneath all of that, they told us they belonged to us. Even though we're on the Dene Sotine traditional lands where all the chemical is now, we're still very poor. The uranium is killing us. Back 32 years ago, I remember when my father, J. V. Gar, was one of the 10 chiefs for the Metropolitan Tribal Council. When chemical came, he was the only one that stood up and said, Are you taught? My dad, when he sat with the 10 chiefs, he was the only one that stood up for our grandchildren. Our great grandchildren, and that one that weren't born yet, because he said, It's going to start to kill you because that uranium is going to cause you death, whether it's cancer, whatever it is that you eat around you, you will see animals with two heads, and that's happened. We're still very poor. We're prisoners in our own land, so we have to really bind together. Then in 1970, Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territory is created to protect the rights and interests of the Dene Sotine language. This happened. Today, our treaty rights are being sabotaged. We have to fight for it for our children, our grandchildren. The ones aren't born yet. In 1990, the Dene Sotine language became an official language in the Northwest Territories. Even though we were still speaking 300 years ago, only in 1990, the Dene Sotine language became official. We now live through Turtle Island, where we are now. In 1990, the Dene Sotine language became an official language in the Northwest Territory. In 1990, the Dene Sotine language became an official language in the Northwest Territory. The Dene Sotine, the Hindi Indians, the Beaver, all of us. So do you, all of you. Whatever nation you come to, you live at the shores of your own land.