Fort Good Hope Fish Camp – the Importance of Camp

Passing on knowledge to the next generation about living in ‘the bush’, learning how to camp and how to fish, is important to the Sahtu people of the Deh Cho (Mackenzie River). The people in this video talk about what it means to them to be able to spend time together away from town and for the grandparents to be able to teach their children and grandchildren how to make camp, catch and dry fish, and more. As Judy Lafferty says, “They have to learn for survival . . . It’s our place to teach them, as parents and grandparents.”

Special thanks to (in order of appearance):

• Dennita Lafferty, Participant
• Anna Turo, Participant
• Judy Lafferty, Mentor
• Wilma Manuel, Participant
• Leon Turo, Mentor
• Michel Lafferty, Mentor

As well, special thanks to:

• Anne-Marie Jackson, NCCIE Videographer and Contributor
• Christopher White, Promethean Heritage and Cultural Services, Video Editor
• Andrée Cazabon, Productions Cazabon, Producer

This video and two others in this series are also part of ‘Tracking Change: the Role of Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance’, a project that includes listening to Indigenous peoples along the Mackenzie, Mekong, and Amazon Rivers to gather information about “long term (historic and current) patterns of social and ecological change and the interconnections between the health and dynamics of these river systems and that of river communities.” (source: www.trackingchange.ca/about)