“I remember when I first got out of school, I was sixteen years old and I didn’t think I had learned enough of even the [English] language to go and look for work in the white society. I went to the bush with my family right after. My father was hunting and trapping at that time. Sometimes I almost cried when my mother told me to do something because I knew I didn’t know how to do it or maybe because I hesitated to do it.
“Then one day my father said to me that when I was doing something that I had been taught, I would never be sure of myself – even if the person who taught me was very good – unless I gave myself to the task of learning it and wanted to do it.”
Ella Neeposh
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