Video - Inspired by the Land

Video Transcript:
Change is Coming

Glenn Sutter, Scientist
There is a change coming, we are going to be, society as a whole is going to be forced, though limited resources, hopefully in non-violent ways to adjust.

Trevor Herriot, Writer
How do we move away from our traditional, extractive and very destructive energy forms, the dirty oil that we've been so dependent on and which we're still thinking of developing in our own north here in Saskatchewan and than there’s the whole question on how people are beginning to think, well, what about nuclear power, maybe it’s the free ride that we’ve all be waiting for. There are no free rides in nature, there’s always consequences.

Wes Fine Day, Elder Sweetgrass First Nation
Everything has an impact. There is no such thing as it doesn’t matter.

Sharon Butala, Writer
We are dealing now with global change in weather and climate and any person you speak to, I think, will tell you, its way wetter then it used to be, or its way drier, or, well, right in this area where I’m sitting, people are growing canola these days, when I came here thirty-five years ago, the idea of growing canola was laughable.

Jean E. Sonmor, Painter
I don’t think we’re connected anymore as a society to where our food and our life really comes from.

Richard Baschak, Photographer
It’s so easy to get completely separated from that. What are we, 75% urban now.

Courtney Milne, Photographer
To save what’s left, to really make the effort to preserve is, in a very basic and real way, saving ourselves.

Judy Bear, Elder Sweetgrass First Nation
Children need to be taught how to take care of the land, you know, to become stewards of the land.

Wes Fine Day, Elder Sweetgrass First Nation
We can guide them, but we cannot walk their path. We cannot think their thoughts, dream their dreams, remember their memories, sing their songs, pray their prayers. But we can set examples for them and hopefully they’ll take the best of what we share them and make it grow, even more powerful.

Inspired by the Land

We would like to thank the following contributors for making this production possible

First Nation Elders
Judy-kīsikāw A Bear
Wes Fine Day

Photographers
Courtney Milne
Richard Baschak

Writers
Sharon Butala
Trevor Herriot

Painters
Allen Sapp
Jean E. Sonmor

and Scientist
Glenn Sutter

Beadwork by
Marcia Chickeness

Theme Music by
Electric Skychurch / River Conscience

Natural Soundscape Composed by
Charles Fox

French Translation by
Bernard J.A. Millete

Mastered by
Angela Edmunds

Edited by
Safira Lachapelle
Sebastian Pavlovic

Created & Directed by
Dean Bauche

in Conjunction with the Chapel Gallery

Sponsored by
City of North Battleford
Office of the Treaty Commissioner
Saskatchewan Lotteries

All Rights Reserved Allen Sapp Gallery 2009