“We were always brought to my grandparents’ house downtown here, but the house is no longer there. When I was younger I remember them bringing in lots of meat, like, I didn’t know what it was because I was young, right? They fill up the whole kitchen, the whole, like, living room, like full of meat and they told me it was caribou. They had to skin it all, like, cut it a certain way, pack it and everything. It was really interesting because I was just, like, really young and I didn’t know what it was. Me, I thought it was like a bear or some type of animal because it has fur, right? I kept like wandering around just thinking what it was. They told me, like, I can’t go near it, I can’t go over it. It’s like don’t play around in it because I was a little kid, so I left it be but it was really interesting. 

That’s how they lived back in the day, like, traditionally. That’s mostly their meat, right, besides fish. Nowadays it’s, like, the store is all store meat and it’s, like, getting expensive. Some elders, like, they rely on the caribou meat.”