Testimonial from Nunavut 4

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Yeah, it's very important to us, the region where I come from, ... we used to live 40 miles from small community where the store was to process foods. At the camp we used to live off the land, like animals, mammals and caribous. Sealing is very, was always important, because that's why we survive, that's why we grow up... but today I have to have it, ...I don't eat hardly vegetable myself. For my diet, I have to eat seal meat, so after to survive myself, health. It's a part of my body, it's good for my health. Yeah, like I told you before, I used to live in the camp. My parents, my father and my friends used to full time employ, just like a full time employ part of your life. You have to live off the hunting, but if you, you had to share the food, just like a bank. You share the food of your family, you have to pay the meat to a family, provide you know the food for them. It was very important to the family, to my family. Well I think it's a... life has changed today, some people, even some young culture are not understanding very clear the, it was very important to us when we were young... cost of life. The, I think, lot of people don't understand, what it means. It still my heart, it very important to me today. The young or the new generation hardly understand it because they don't live with it anymore. They live in a ...city, their lives are different, but they still with us today, never goes away from your mind. It's very important to me I'd like people to understand, it is important to me. It's part of my life, I know I have many friends who depending on the, their lives depending on the seal. Clothing, or food, it's for everything, the eating and surviving.

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