Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today, I'd like to talk a little bit about the Taltson River and the Taltson hydro dam development.
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[Translation] The school burned in the late '50's before the people were there and kids were going to school there. There are a lot of people living on the other side. People used to live very well there. People were trapping.
After the school burned down, the people were moved. A lot of people moved to Yellowknife. They had no jobs. None of them went to school. They couldn't trap anymore once they got here. Once they couldn't hunt here, that's where they ended up in the streets, and they died here.
Some of the people who moved to Fort Resolution, who lived there, it was a little better there. They didn't have very much to work with. The government then helped them much. They will not be building the school back in Rocher River, they were told. In the case the kids wanted to go to school, they had to move to Fort Resolution. People were still trapping around the area.
There were still a few people living there. The people who were living around the Taltson River were well-provided-for. There were a lot of beavers. There were a lot of furs. My mother told me that, in 1957, my dad killed so many beavers there, my mom, my dad, and another lady who used to help us had to all work together to prepare the fur. Some days, there were so many furs, you couldn't hunt.
After 1964, in the springtime, we went back to where we trapped. We went back in 1964. There was nothing there. There was absolutely no game, nothing to hunt. During the wintertime, when the flooding was happening in the winter, all the beaver dams and muskrat lodges were all flooded out, and they were all killed. There was no more game. That dam is the cause of it, and the government is going to be working on that again this week here. The Taltson River that is being talked on, I'm going to be reading all the documents that are pertaining to the dam development, and then I will be asking the government. Thank you. [Translation ends.]