 My name is Mallory Yongwei. I'm originally Jackson Anderson from Saddle Lake Well, I got to meet Erica. She's a lovely student came to My house in Edmonton and we drove together here to Saddle Lake Mallory's father hunted a moose and he's bringing it back now and we're going to see it prepared and Skinned and Cooked I think yeah And yeah, I'm really excited to show you guys what's gonna happen tonight, and I guess in the next little while here Well, we went we went hunting and We shot a moose We knew where they where they were we had hunted there before and they just so happened He was in that same area I've never even been this close to a living moose before it's a little bit surreal I guess Interesting to see how it's done and how it's done, right I guess Helping a little bit holding his hands making sure he's Comforted Improvised tenderloin moose meat and fresh bannock Yeah, there's a little bit. Yeah So we're right in the middle of Saddle Lake and I essentially kind of grew up You know at my parents house on the north side, but my my grandmother my cocom She lived just on the corner of the town site There wasn't a lot to do. There was a lot of the same people that did the same things and the same Bad things and and so growing up as a teenager I obviously got involved in a lot of that and Some of the drugs and the drinking that there's nothing else to do for for us out here I was fortunate enough to grow up in on the very north side where my parents live now and And that was the good thing for me It was that I got to you know be a free-range child and run around in the fields and ride horses and Be really grounded in that sense and always have sort of that safe home base to always go to I Left to know 16 So I was you know, I still a teenager. Um, I had to get a job I had to go to school every day and having to take the bus and be just a complete Nobody in the sea of just different kinds of people Was just super life changing for me. I didn't like it at first I um my my dad would actually have to like you know My mom dad would actually have to leave me crying in the city because they knew that it was good for me To be there and not here. It's different in the city now because I I love it But I've also feel this really disconnect to my community It's pretty humbling. I keep telling our young people, you know, we are not Indians We're not we're kind I were so tonight, you know, they heal and Denison lonely and and all the different Ethnicities relative to this Turtle Island now Something similar to Europe. They have Germans. They have French. They have Ukrainians, etc You know the same if you respect yourself and becomes easier to respect the you know human nature and everything else around you Growing up my whole life what I love to do. Well, I I love to enjoy my life or what the way it is now. I Love my grandkids a lot Hunting teaches me a lot of patience And it gives me physically active if my mind occupied all kinds of things Like traditional values Every time I hunt we take a real good portion of it to the elders Hey, and that's a Cree custom That's their papa Hi girl Come on give me a big hug. Come on Come on Nobody else is doing it and it's we're gonna lose it. It's part of our culture It's part of Like the language we're almost lost our language Not too many people speak our language anymore This is a really Sacred place for me here. I grew up right here. This is all our land here This was my grandfather's land. He had lots of horses here We had a really big farm here What would you like to teach us? Well, I would have liked to teach you more Cree But you guys when you were growing up you were learning Cree actually you understand really good Cree But you were used to laugh at each other's Cree. Oh, of course because You did you both you all sounded funny Of course The way of life that I knew is pretty much gone Nobody hunts and traps anymore Not very much they do it for pleasure We used to do it for a living This business of being Indian Aboriginal and Native kind of concerned me, you know So I went out and asked the elders so what kind of a people are we? You know what he told me he said we are people of the land We belong to the land The land does not belong to us At the universities, you know, they they say that we surrendered the land succeeded the land and There is no such word in Cree to translate that You are treaty you're hearing that understand by virtue of treaty But you are benefiting from being a treaty much more so than me and my people