“Caribou has always been a part of my life from those early years, and watching my family sew is something that I always think about too. My mother was an amazing seamstress and she worked with a lot of people to create different garments for them. So I always have that memory of her sitting with smoked hide, and sewing slippers, sewing mittens, sewing for us and making us different items also. 

I think that part of our history and our relationship to the land plays a big part in our relationship to caribou because we’ve shared the land for so many years. Our ancestors moved with the caribou. They depended on them in order to survive. And yeah, I always think about how far these caribou have come and how far they have walked, and how many generations they’ve gone through, and how many generations that these caribou have taken care of our people.”