'Go back to the old way:' First Nations return to land during COVID-19 pandemic

"The land loves the Dene people and we in turn love the land."

"Our value as Dene, the sharing, has come back and is still alive with the fish, the caribou," Yakeleya said. Right now, it's goose and duck season and the community is excited about boiling the birds in an open-fire pot to get tender meat and soup.Restrictions to limit the spread of the virus have made it difficult for the more than 1,100 people on the reserve. They can no longer travel south, there's anxiety about food prices, and, like elsewhere, parents need to keep children who aren't going to school occupied.

"It all entails with traditional and culture things that we have always kept alive and are now carrying on through generations and generations," Ducharme said. Genaille said he's advised his members to look to their own backyards to find traditional sustenance and food.

Good idea.

What a bunch of crap. “The old way”.. but with modern guns, trucks, GPS, etc. You want to go back to “the old way”? Put on a loin cloth, fire up that bow made from a springy branch, track a deer with no navigational aids (on foot), shoot it with a homemade arrow. Good luck.

Achieving the best of both worlds! Sustained by the land; while utilizing technology if, where, & when feasible to increase learning, etc.; and as a way to further a cause, or awareness! Care for the Mother, & she will care for you!!! Use, DO NOT abuse, the gifts you were given!

Not so enthusiastic camping outdoors when winter arrives.

Those drunks couldn't survive a week without all the welfare we give them

Seriously do it. I promise Canadians would support you guys taking massive swaths of land in northern Ontario’s as long as you got off the public tit and started living the “old way”.

That’s quite the “old way” north face jacket. 😂

We should all be going back to the land and nature for food and medicines

Did the old ways include billions in handouts ?

Lucky lagers and Chief banging

Oh good grief critics! Read the article not just the headline.

Wait, are they taking the rifles us white folks cant have with them on their return to the land?

Great. A few more tons of garbage strewn everywhere, all of which will have to be cleaned up by somebody else once the pandemic is over.

Omg, ok so give all those treaty cheque’s back while you are at it. Even better, why don’t you give everything back the “white man” gave you like pick up trucks and houses and go back to living in tee pees and hunting with sticks. Then I’ll believe it!

So goodbye SUVs and trucks?

Love how no one reads the article and see how many racist people are still out there. Wow. Come one friends we are in the year 2020 now. Time to be kind to your neighbor.

What you don’t see is his HUNTING AR-15

So...no guns or 4 x 4s just bows and arrows

The old ways when life expectancy was 40?

Lol

What no blockades......?

Oh good grief! Did the critics even read the article?

You think that they will give up the billions they get from whitey? Ya, right.

Can I join you?

You are saying they left the old way?

In glasses............ Yeah.... very 'old ways'

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