They will begin to fear losing their Innu culture.
I said to him the last time I saw him: "You will leave me your knowledge, and I will continue your work."
"I have my domain inland, do not play [gamble, take risks] with it," my grandfather used to tell me.
All that is here, the water, the sand, the lakes, it is s/he who owns them.
"The one who is up above, the one who guides us, s/he will help us, do not forget it," my grandmother used to tell me.
Because he has known misery many times, he has been alone many times.
"We've come a very long way," my grandfather used to say.
It is our livelihood and our path that we pursue, they say to the children.
But they said, when speaking of the Innu, that his child will not follow in his footsteps, those who will be there later.
When it's the start of summer, still today many Innu go hunting for seals, because there are many seals here in the coastal region.
That's what our grandfathers did.
It's true, those Innu, they're the types to love the inland [region].
It is beautiful out, we go in search of large birds, we want to find nests.
First he will make harpoons, then he will want to kill salmon, he will use a bark canoe when he goes spear fishing at night.
My grandfather arrives from inland, he wants to eat very fatty fish; [inland] the animal is already thin, they say.
They will have food for a long time.
When he has killed one or two of them, he will dry the meat, he will clean the seal's stomach and he will add fat to it so they can eat seal blubber.
When the Innu [man] returns to the seaside, he sees it [the seal] coming out of the water, offshore.
He is pleased by what I tell him, he wants to rest.
