And how do you feel when you are looking at some of these things and knowing they can date back thousands of years?

I suppose that me, as well as with a few other members of community, there's a sort of a bittersweetness to it.

On the one hand, it's really amazing to have these incredible pieces that somebody that is a descendant of you had take the time to sort of meticulously craft and make and leave these seeds behind for us to learn and learn more about ourselves.

But also there's this level of sort of a sense of sort of sadness that they stay in these spaces more often than not that the people that do have sort of cultural connection and heritage, the cultural heritage that's connected to these materials don't typically have access to these things.

So it's important that we keep creating spaces that the ancestral peoples that are descendant of the folks that sort of created these technologies and created these materials have access to them because otherwise that knowledge that indigenous communities are so deeply wanting access to is going to be left behind.

What does it mean to be having this project work with different communities in New Brunswick?

I think, you know, personally, I think it's a good step.

It's extremely important for Indigenous communities to be involved in this type of work because they're a huge stake in that, right? And that knowledge and our ability to preserve our culture, you know, is just uplifted by materials like this and by having access to materials like this.