Sagatay, June/July 2007
 | “Cool,” Morris says. My little brother is wading through a ditch, trying out his hip-waders for first time. He walks around, cracking as much ice as he can. He looks down at his feet, marvelling at how he can walk through water knee-high and not get wet. |
 | Dan Cutfeet has come a long way from his boyhood summers, which against his mother’s wishes he spent tromping through swamps, his brother in tow, looking for frogs to play with. The 32-year-old Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug band member is now married and a father of two young boys of his own, and is going to medical school to become a doctor. |
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The wife of the late Stanley Rae, former chief of North Spirit Lake, remembers a different time for the community. Eva Rae recalls a time when there was no running water, no housing, no roads, and definitely no airport. |
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