Dumas explained the three types of Cree. Listen to it, study it, listen to the stories left behind by the elders. Our language is very important. We have a way of looking at history with our own perspective, and this gives us a stronger identity. He says this is not the only way to look at history, that there is no one and only right way to see history.
Songs are also important.
Historians are starting to learn about Aboriginal history through archaeology, and through listening to songs. Dumas says the Ithinew have not lost their culture when the whites came. They just moved it into new areas. To give an example, he sang a song. Think about how the people used to sing in church, with the women singing very high and the men singing low, and compare this to pow-wow songs, says Dumas.