Our rights to hunt and fish are taken away by game wardens.

Now non-Innu cabins are built on Innu land.

The government is taking food from our mouths by preventing us from caribou hunting.

It is as if they are trying to kill the people by doing all these actions. Then we would live ten months out of 12 in the year in Labrador – they would live in Labrador, they would get a decent livelihood by hunting, surviving off the land – and [now] they find all these tricks and actions to undermine the Innu: for example the eviction orders that they sent to families, threatening to burn down the cabins of the Quebec Innu who had cabins in Labrador – they threatened to burn down our cabins, our camps, which is very unfortunate, I’m very upset by it. It is as if they are trying by all means to kill the Innu.

They put a book on the table and told me that that was our [trap]line. I told them why would I follow their line? They said in the US I would be afraid to talk to them like that. I said why would I be afraid? We’ve got to talk to them if they want to understand – and all the things they took, fishing things they took off us, we never saw them again. They sent them away. I told them they would have to pay me for what I had to buy.

They sent [my hunting equipment] home to me with the meat on them. When I opened it, it was all rotten. Even the line was rotten. It was only the hook that was still good.

I have a nephew who lives near Kujjuuaq – he sent me a message that he was going to kill a caribou and some fish to send to my father. There is a boundary – James Bay Agreement boundary – and a few minutes from the boundary we have Matimekush and Kawawachikamach. He works for the mining company from Toronto. He went ten months ago and he sent me an email saying he was going to send the caribou and fish. It was yesterday that I heard by the CB [radio] that we use in the country that the game wardens had taken the food because my nephew is Montagnais.

Harper may have apologised but the priests who abused us never have.