“My grandpa, Phillip Nitsiza, he usually always takes me to caribou hunting all the time, eh. I don’t know why, he always picks me all the time. He doesn’t even pick one of my uncles or my other brothers, but he always seems to pick me. And everytime we would go out, we always get lucky with caribou. Once upon a time we went on the other side of the lake. Just when we drove on the ice there was a whole bunch of caribou. There was lots, like, more than five hundred just, like, scattered around all over us. Not even that far from us, like, eight, ten feet from us. That’s how close we got to the caribou. It’s the last time I went out hunting with my grandpa. Haven’t been out on the lake, haven’t been out om the land since then. He passed away a long time ago so – 2004 or 5, around there. He passed away and ever since then I haven’t been out on the land.”

Why haven’t you been out on the land since?

“I don’t know, because of my condition, my lower back condition. And I like to travel only with certain people. Like, who has the wisdom, you know they got knowledge to teach me, the knowledge where to go and stuff like that. Certain stuff I need to learn, and I already know how to do it. So I haven’t been out on the land since. Not even in summertime, not even on a boat. I never been out there yet. Which I would love to one day, and hopefully this year. I miss hunting with my grandpa, and I miss traveling with him – go out hunting with my grandpa. I miss it a lot. And everytime I go out on the land, the other side of the lake, right, sometimes it just hits me, you know? Like, emotionally. Emotionally it just hits me because it brings me back, flashback, right. I was incarcerated, right, I was in jail, and my grandpa passed away and I heard that, right. And I didn’t like it. So, I haven’t been out on the land, never been out hunting since then.”