 I'm a research assistant out of Thunder Bay, or you can also call me Tyler Armstrong. Okay. What was your experience like when conducting the interviews for NCCI? The process with the conducting interviews, I would say when done properly by, you know, offering our same on having relationships with the people. It really helped the process go smoothly. I had previous relationships with the people I interviewed, their family and friends, that are acquaintances that I've known throughout my life. And then following our protocols, things went smoothly that way. Awesome. What would you say was your favorite interview and why? There was three interviews out of the, I conducted five in total and three of them were in my language. So what would you create? I found those to be my favorite because just hearing how they speak the language and and then they translated themselves on the video as well because I think that's important. So I can do their best to get what their messages were across. And it's just beautiful hearing the language. So those are my favorite. You can recall from those three, like a little clip that was stood out to you. Well, I guess in terms of my favorite things that stood out is. I would almost say all three of them spoke well on what our future generations need to know. And Shao, she speaks about how everything, we have everything around us that we need. And I think that was a line that spoke a lot to me because as indigenous people, as Anishinaabe people, wherever you may come from, everything we need is on the land and, you know, the water and just around us. And I think that's important for our younger generations to understand. Awesome. Have you ever conducted an interview in your language before? I've never conducted an interview in my language. I don't speak the language yet. That's something I'll be working on. But hearing the language was powerful and it did motivate me to want to continue on. And I had, outside of the interviews too, I was asking questions on which direction I should go to learn the language. So seeing them speak in the interview, I chose them initially because I knew they all had their language still. I think what motivated me to want to learn my language is just, there's a lot of discussions that go on with people. So leading up before I even started filming, they would talk a lot about the language and what it means because they understand the importance of language and what it means for us as Anishinaabe people. So once they started to speak it, I could pick a few words here and there. And I think it's just like, it's something you need to hear on a regular basis to, you know, to keep that strength, to keep that language spirit alive and just to keep growing inside of me that I need to, you know, go. Because if I was in a position where I could never hear the language, then, you know, that's how things get forgotten. So what do you hope the people who are going to be watching the interviews that you specifically chose to do, what do you hope they take away from it? I hope that the people that watched the interviews that I conducted, I think there's a lot that doesn't matter who you are. You can take something away from it. A lot of it is about living a good life and, you know, understanding our ways, understanding everything that's around us that, you know, that will help us on our journey. And I really think that's just beneficial to everyone. So I guess the most important message is when you're watching them, listen to what our elders are saying, because there's more than just, it'll help you in your educational life, but it'll just help you in your everyday life too. They go hand in hand of living a good life. So by living a good life, it'll benefit you not only in school, but it'll benefit you outside of school and everything else you may do. And I think those are some of the stronger messages in the interviews that I conducted. Any last remarks you want to make regarding your interviews or being a researcher? I think being a researcher has been a good experience because there's two different worlds that we walk in, right? There's our traditional, you know, knowledges. And then there's another world where we have to accommodate to the western structures and stuff like that. And I think by doing the interview, I mean, doing the interviews, we're starting to bring together western education and our traditional knowledges together, which I think is where we're slowly trying to be moving, and I think that's what a lot of people are working on.