I am not necessarily stating that we're being taught not to hunt. What we are challenged with is where to hunt.
The issue we have in our territory of Brokenhead is that it's surrounded. I would say that all of our first nations are completely surrounded by farming, agriculture, municipalities, private lands, the city of Winnipeg and the city of Selkirk. There really is no place for us to exercise the ability to hunt, trap or anything.
We have always reminded some of our communities up north to be really grateful for what they do still have. Even though there are impacts up there, they have a lot more than we do.
As you all know possibly—and maybe some of you don't—it's a really hostile environment out there with our people when it comes to interactions with settler populations and with agricultural populations when it comes to hunting. We're met with aggression.
In our particular case in Treaty 1, the areas that are considered Crown are now being leased out again for further agricultural practices, so our communities really are challenged with teaching our children even how to hunt.