 My name is Wilfrid Buck, greetings my relatives, I'm from Pasquia Cree Nation. As a child I grew up in the northern boreal forest near the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border on the Saskatchewan River and in the winter evenings when it got dark sometimes we get amazing display in the sky and these were of course the northern lights and we were told as children that we shouldn't whistle at the northern lights in the nighttime and if we did that they told us that the northern lights would come to get us and take us away and in the Cree language the northern lights are called Wawaat Dewin when there are one or two strands in the sky moving and when they're when they totally fill the sky and they're dancing around sometimes you can hear a static you can you can smell the ozone even we call them t-paini mean to one which means the spirit of dancing of course we try to do it we try to whistle at the northern lights all the time but I guess the reason we were told this is because during the long winter months of course it was dark for hours and hours upon end in the winter and there was very little daylight and so one of the things our parents and the elders didn't want us to do was to go out in the bush and run around in the bush especially at night because in the night there was a lot of animals hungry animals because it was winter there was very little food and we were afraid that we'd get taken by a wolf or something and so that was one of the one of the scares they put into us to keep us near near the village and near the community so we wouldn't go wandering around in the bush so that's t-paini mean to one that means the spirits are dancing that's the story of the northern lights next year