Margaret & Elzear Oar

Summary: 
Memories of life in Lake Chipewyan
Description: 

Margaret and Elzear share stories about transportation, naming landmarks, their career, housing and preserving traditions.  They speak about ceremonies and crafts, training dog sled teams, and teaching kids to trap.  They talk about lessons in nature, hauling animals home, and go over the steps required to make a birch bark canoe.  They leave a message for the younger generation.

Location: 
Protocol: 
MD of Opportunity #17 Public
Community: 
MD of Opportunity #17
Collection: 
Stories from Treaty 8: MD of Opportunity #17 Local Heritage Initiative
Category: 
Kinship and Family Histories, Culture and Worldviews, People and Personal Stories, Skills and Teachings, Place, Land and Territory
Media Type(s): 
Video
Keywords: 
Woodland Cree, Birchbark Canoe, Trapping, Training Sled Dogs, Traditional Values
Creator(s): 
Margaret Oar, Elzear Oar, Lindisfarne Productions Inc.
Date: 
2020
Language(s): 
English
Rights: 
Please contact MD of Opportunity #17 with any inquiries at: https://www.mdopportunity.ab.ca/p/contact-us-
Licensing Options: 
Creative Commons License

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Publisher: 
MD of Opportunity #17