Fort Providence

She was also Mati.

She was from, um, Fort Providence, which is about 200 miles to the east of where they were all hanging out.

And this is just beneath the second Canyon in almost precisely the exact same spot.

And the cloud brothers were just across the river.

Passing out at the northwest end of the lake, the canoes entered Slave River, which connects Lake Athabasca with the Great Slave Lake.

Their progress was rapid, and in 11 days they reached Fort Providence on the other side of the Great Slave Lake.

Then they advanced to Winter Lake, where they arrived on the 19th of August.

Here they decided to pass the winter and erected a house to which they gave the name of Fort Enterprise.

Um, The funny thing was, four years later, he decided to close the retail side of the business.

And I got an email from my uncle saying, oh, you know, Jeff's shutting down the Fort Providence location.

I said, oh, that sucks.

And I'm like, what's happening? He's like, oh, he's just moving all of his stuff to Yellowknife.

So, today is, uh, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and I wanted to basically welcome folks who are new to me and also just tell a little about my story.

Um, for those who don't know, my granny went to Fort Providence Indian Residential School.

It was called Sacred Heart.

It was Catholic.

So, when I talk about National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, it is coming from a place of trying to honor my, my family, the Yellowknife Dene First Nation, the Saa’tuú De- uh, Saa’tuú Dene, and also, there were a lot of folks that didn't make it home.

And I have showed pictures on, on Twitter, but that was years ago already, so many of you may not have seen that.

So, I just wanted to make it clear that this place that I visited, uh, one of my cousins was getting married, so we made a trip up to Yellowknife, and we stopped at Fort Providence to have a look at that place.

And I just want you to picture The Mackenzie River, it's a, it's way bigger than a lot of the rivers I'm sure you're all used to seeing.