Adults and youth alike loved to travel with both Jonas and Angelique and live with them wherever they set up their camp. He taught many young people the skills of being a good hunter and a provider and a trapper. More importantly, they were very good role models to our young people. Jonas and Angelique spent a total of 10 years working at our youth camps and very much enjoyed passing on and teaching the traditional ways of life.

This past fall Jonas became very ill and throughout the Christmas season, and finally after Christmas he was forced to spend some time in the hospital. He was there for about a month and he certainly wasn’t comfortable in an environment such as a hospital setting, but he managed to endure his time there and he had a lot of strong support from his family.

Jonas was a very humble man, a very quiet man. He touched many hearts in the community of Fort Providence and throughout the Deh Cho. I think all of us are very thankful that we were given the chance to know him and I want to offer my condolences to his friends and his family.