When we were younger we listened to our Parents, our Elders; we need to bring that back. I was brought up in a residential school, I lost all that [knowledge] how to live in the bush. But I regained it back from my Dad when I would go hunting with him. He would tell me the different cree names for everything, the muskeg, different types of trees etc... This younger generation spends too much [time] on computers and phones, its not bad but we need to balance that. We need to bring back our language, its a real special language from the Creator. [To learn from our Elders] young people have to ask, and need to understand Cree. I would encourage young people to speak Cree. You just have to want to learn it, and you can learn.

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- Danny Laboucan, Elder