Young Warriors of Turtle Island
About us, for us!
Ages 5 to adult
A Visit with the Mayor
We went for a visit with Your Worship, Wayne Taipale, at his house one evening and ended up learning all sorts of stuff about the tools we used/use and many other great things...
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A railroad track is the only way to get our community by land. We have no highway connecting us to the rest of the country. Long ago, many people lived in little communities along the railroad tracks. Our grandmother and her family grew up at 'mileage 162'. We found out our Mayor grew up 9 miles from them! He spent his life growing up in the bush too! He has had many teachers from here along the way and he shared a little of what he was taught with us.
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We got thousands of years of history in a few hours ! :D
We began with fossils of animals that would have lived here when this area was a tropical zone!
Then we moved on to our traditional tools. We still use some of these tools today because for their purposes they are still better than knives for example.
Then we moved on to the appearance of settlers. Wayne talked about Henry Hudson and Thomas James and the start of the fur trade in our area around 1673... the trading post in Moose Factory, the name Moose Factory and many other things. ​
We also learned about the beaver. Not just about it physically but how the beaver predicts what kind of winter it will be. It was very interesting and made a lot of sense.