I look forward to that information given the long, continuous push from my side, at least, to have elders in schools. I thought the Minister would have the information on hand because it’s such a high priority for me to have elders in schools. I am a little bit disappointed the Minister doesn’t have the information at hand to tell me how many elders are in school right now and how the education boards are working as to what ways of putting these valuable professors into our schools. I will leave it at that.
My second question I want to ask on the culture and heritage section. This afternoon I recognized a geographical name of a mountain that is bordering on the Yukon/Northwest Territories border close to mile 222 on the Canol Heritage Trail. Is this something that the department is working towards in the North that there are some original names that should be brought back into the geographical naming of our territory? There are some strong Aboriginal names that haven’t been recognized, but we certainly have given recognition to other names. Certainly that has wiped off the Aboriginal identity to their area and their land. We are talking some pretty strong names that now we haven’t put on to the name of our land. I can speak about the Mackenzie Valley Highway, on some bridges, river
crossings, trails. There are some hills that are given some pretty non-essential names for us like Seagram Creek. That’s not the original name. I don’t know where Seagram came from or Devil’s Canyon.
Is there any project to recognize our traditional names in the North?