Sapohtew Kiskinwahama Towin

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Elder: The goal to save Aboriginal languages became a reality. Efforts were combined to promote the languages in educational institutions.

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Elder 1: The cultural revitalization movement within Indigenous communities grow.

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Elder 1: Aboriginal people began to talk about the political movement in Canada. They were excited about the election of Pierre Trudeau in 1968.

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Elder: The colonial tactic of separating the child with the parent is enforced. The government officials thought about this. They did not want the parents influencing their children.

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Elder: There was no choice from either the parent or the child on attending school. Female Elder: They told my father that he had no choice but to leave us there to attend school.

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Elder: The first time they discussed it was in 1842 which they called the Bagot Commission. In 1857, a law was made to individualize the people and to take the land for themselves.

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Elder 1: She was one of the first women to be documented as doing this work. This was the time the John West School was build in 1820-21. This was possibly the area where she worked and helped out.

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Keith Goulet – Educator, Former Minister and MLA of Saskatchewan: People first thought that when the Crees first got the guns, they pushed the Dene up North.

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Elder: It was recorded that the Dene people were pushed North but if you really studied this history, you will see that around this time of the shift, a great sickness came.

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Keith Goulet: ‘Owning’ the land was a new concept to the Aboriginal people. They just lived off the land. They tried to tell the European people that.