To understand the power of the elements, the tracks of the animals, the techniques of killing and other skills requires accumulated experience of the country life, not a simulation of that experience in a classroom or in a specially-constructed tent outside the school. Knowledge of myths and legends and Animal Masters, sometimes imparted to children by older people who have been asked to participate, is patently out of context and abstract in a school building in the community, cut off from the world that gives it meaning. The Innu 'school', as many people remark, is in the country. The destructive impact of the schools is exacerbated by the academic calendar, which follows the Canadian pattern. The school here is very important.
Kids go to school every day, every day.
But when they have reached 16 years, the kids will have lost everything. They will be just like white people. Me, I never have accidents in the country. I'm afraid that they will get lost and die or have accidents in the bush. Now, the little ones speak too much English.