Thanks.
You're here and you're doing this work, so you're catching up.
The elders I work with are quite frustrated. They have knowledge, but it doesn't have an outlet. A lot of time is spent trying to explain and justify how changes have occurred through development that has impacted them quite seriously. The things they've come to rely on and have confidence in are gone. There's been some real destruction of the way that traditional knowledge works.
I want to really quickly point out that indigenous knowledge is such an active and living part. They had cellphones in Fort Chipewyan and in the Peace-Athabasca delta in 2012. That's when they got cell coverage for the first time. Within about six weeks, people knew exactly where to go to get a signal. There's this constant refinement. There's this constant evolution that we have to remember and make space for.
I'm rambling. I'll stop there.