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When you come here in the evening, it’s like Las Vegas with lots of flashing lights.
It’s an income for people. It'd be better if for each pack of cigarettes, we receive money that could help everybody.
After the Oka crisis, we wanted the government to buy the land where the lacrosse field is. But they bought here.
For us, it was a swamp. It isn’t a good place. It’s full of water, bugs, mosquitoes.
Look, people have to add earth, earth, earth. They bought the wrong land.
We expected them to buy the disputed land. They didn’t do that. They bought this instead.
Why are the pines so important to yo?.
This is the place our ancestors chose for fetching wood, for celebrating, for playing lacrosse, for a gathering place.
That’s why it’s important. Back when there wasn’t a pine forest, it was just sand.
The Mohawks decided to plant trees to prevent erosion. So they planted this.
Here, on this side, it was all Mohawks. Before and even today.
But I thought that in the village there were Mohawks and next to them there were francophones.
That can happen. Across from me, there were French Canadians. Next there are Mohawks. Across from me, there are Mohawks.
In other places, there may be a Mohawk and French Canadians all around him. It’s all mixed up.