Why do you think caribou is important to Tłı̨chǫ people?

“First thing is the meat. Then it’s skin or whatever they call it, the fur, I mean the skin for the drumming. That’s about it, that’s all I know.”

Do you make drums? 

“No, no, I wish I knew how.”

Do you drum though?

“I drum, yeah.”

What do you love about drumming?

“I just drum for myself. Because it feels…every time I drum or whatever, I can feel something. It makes me happy. It makes me think a lot of, a lot of things.”

What kind of things?

“Like the stuff I’m doing, I wanted to do things with my life. Yeah.”