Thank you so much, Chief, for being here.
I had an opportunity to meet Steven Nitah. He came to speak at our environment committee about the Thaidene Nene protected lands that were happening in the Dene territory. He gave us a very good view of the importance of the land and the rangers, formed to help protect the land and monitor the land, very similar to what the watchmen have done with the Haida people and now the guardians are hoping to do in northern Quebec and in Ontario.
You focused a lot on the cultural heritage, on your closeness to the land, on your souls being attached to the land, and I guess the big question is how we go about embedding, in a formalized process, this connection of your souls to the land.
The last speakers who were here talked about this full circle, about the wraparound process of trying to move the cultural heritage, starting at a very young age, into the education of our youth. In that heritage you're giving them that hope and that pride where, if they do reach a crisis situation around suicide, you're helping them get through that depression or the difficulties they're experiencing from whatever direction they might be coming. Then, coming through the other side, you're reintroducing them to their cultural heritage.
How do you see that happening on the ground at the local level?