1967-1968 and 1975 Excavations
Fade In: 1967-1968 and 1975 Excavations
Dr.Gail Pool and Dr.Francis Stewart sitting side by side in a kitchen with an antique black stove and rustic wooden cabinet in the background.
(Dr. Frances Stewart)
We knew these people had died from famine but, I don’t know that like we particularly looked at the bones to see if there was any…
(Dr. Gail Pool)
Weakness
(Dr. Frances Stewart)
weakness, yeah, I don’t think so, we were just carefully getting them out.
There weren’t a lot, like it wasn’t an ossuary like most ossuaries but there were, gosh I don’t know how many.
(Dr. Gail Pool)
They weren’t all in one spot in the pit; there were some…
(Dr. Frances Stewart)
Spaces between them…
(Dr. Gail Pool)
Spaces between them…
(Dr. Frances Stewart)
And they were oriented in different ways.
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Fade In: Dr. Louis Lesage sitting at a table beside of a map of Christian Island.
(Dr. Louis Lesage, Bureau du Nionwentsio Huron Wendat Nation)
Part of the story is known by few people. Not enough, not enough. We know, as I said we know where we are from, we know where also where we are going but there are a couple of chapters that need to be learned to our kids and our people.
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Special Thanks: Dean Knight, Francis Stewart, Gail Poole, Louis Lesage
Filming- Nicole Aszalos
Editing-Brooke Gosden