Julia tells a funny story from her childhood making sausage.

Julia describes her own use of stories to help guide people in their lives.

Julia explains the importance of speaking Michif in discovering Métis identity.

Julia Pitzel (nee Cummings) describes growing up in Buffalo Narrows and speaking Dene, Cree, and English and being called half-breeds. She describes close family ties and working together. They fed people who came to visit […]

Julia remembers learning to sew from her grandmother.

Julia explains how to use music and Michif to teach children to dance.

Julia remembers Elders using stories to help teach her many lessons growing up.

Julia describes the building of Indigenous pride through the recovery of drumming.

Julia compares the diversity of language in her conversations to the diversity of birds songs.

Julia explains how traditional ways of life were replaced with negative, foreign teachings in the Residential School system.