“I think [caribou] is so important because it’s, it was the main source of food for, like, generations, right? It wasn’t, like - I try very hard not to get my kids into caribou meat because, like, I do know the number’s declining, and so I try to leave it for elders and, you know, older people that are used to having it into their diet. But it is one of my kids’ first foods because having iron-rich food is important, and so I do give it to them for the first thing. And so, I think it’s one of those things why it’s so important, because it’s something that we didn’t just fall on. It’s something that was always there, so it has very big significance in our lives. 

I mean, I’m a mom that’s Métis so I didn’t grow up with a strong cultural background, but, um, so out of my siblings, I’m the native-looking one. My sisters are light skinned with light hair and, so, I thought with me being the native one, like, I need to actually buckle down on that. So yeah, like, I can cut a caribou, I can make drymeat. I made a very big effort to try to become a Tłı̨chǫ woman. Yeah, because, like, I didn’t grow up with it.”