Reflections: Huron Wendat

Fade In: Reflections

Dr. Louis Lesage sitting at a table beside a map of Christian Island.

(Dr. Louis Lesage, Bureau du Nionwentsio Huron-Wendat Nation)

When you live in Wendake in such a close environment with close people, with family, you know a lot about the history of the people that lived there, the people that surrounds you, all the legend, the history, and the family names, and the nicknames, and the tradition, how we are, well, who we are, where we are from, and also where we are going. We’ve been raised as a proud people, dedicated. It was important to go to school, to finish our diploma, to learn how people think, how people are, and to better understand the language of our people of specialists, scientific. Go to school and go to school, and learn, and learn, and learn to become a better person and to learn the language of our people and then to be able to talk with them. I can talk a lot about my mission, is, the history of my mission is very particular, very singular in the country. We moved a lot, we know that we moved a lot, we know where we are from, and more in the last 100 years typical things happened but we have never considered ourselves as victims.

Fade out: End Credits

Special Thanks: Ron Williamson, Peter Carruthers, Louis Lesage

Filming: Nicole Aszalos, Eliza Brandy