We roamed around all over here.
We lived in Canada, north of the Missouri River.
The actual fact of Missouri was that the Uchima Kochi, the Canadian territory, you know,
they figured there were territories, they didn't know there was a line.
But government won't recognize us, they won't give us recognition.
That's why they always used that term, refugees.
We've always shared this land, we've always been here.
The English name is Wayne Goodwill.
My first nation name is Gives Away the Warb on it.
The government, this government anyway, skipped out to a lot of war of 1812,
all the negotiations and peace treaties that the Sue signed with the British.
They all say, oh, they're American Indians, but we already were always fighting with the British,
even till the Custer's battle sitting bullfighted the Americans and came to the grandmother's land.
There's so many different effigies, teepee rings, different things that they found,
sites that they've kept sacred, that they've known that the Dakota people were here.
But to have that term by the government, again, it goes back as to what is really a refugee to them.
To us, they are the refugees that came over.
They won't recognize us in Canada, really, like giving us a treaty or anything.
That's why they always used that term, refugees.
Like, you ran away, no, we didn't run away.
This was our land.
We roamed this whole area for years and centuries, and we were the Buffalo people.
They were known as nomads, and they follow the Buffalo herds every spring.
And when the buffaloes went north, they followed them north, and when they went south, they followed them south.
There are also other oral stories from different tribes that states that we were here as well.
The Cree people, the Soto people, the Sinaboyan people, you know, we were all in this area at one point in time.
Back when 1876, when we were here, we were given this reserve, and they said, well, you have a reserve anyway,
so take it and we'll give you the same privilege as the other treaty Indians.
But why don't we sign a treaty, you know, and they didn't want to sign it?
For a reason that I wanted them to say, yeah, we shouldn't sign any treaties because they're from the states, you know,
and that's where it was ever since.
We want to gain recognition for the future of our children.
We want them to have like a treaty, get the land back for economics and for survival.
Your membership constitutes the fastest growing segment of Canadian society.
The forgotten people, as you call your members, do you still call your members that?
Maybe not anymore.
When you see unity or, you know, they figure it's conflict and that's a further thing that they want to see anymore.
But again, government does have that divide and conquer method where they would not like to see a new treaty
or they would like to see something different.
You know, they just like to keep the way things are, you know, and just to keep people quiet sometimes.
With the way things are going now, we'll never be recognized.
We'll never be given that opportunity to sign a modern-day treaty.
We'll always exist.
As a First Nation here, we'll still do our traditional things that we brought in a lot of our culture.
But we have to do more.
We have to start talking with government and start getting them educated
and like letting them know that we've been here for centuries.
We have to get our younger people educated at the same time
and get the people of Saskatchewan educated.
Change the history.
