“My story is a gift. If I give you a gift and you accept that gift, then you don't go and throw that gift in the waste basket. You do something with it.”

Anonymous First Nation's Storyteller

Since time immemorial, oral histories have been past from one generation to another. In the past, storytelling played a major role in our daily lives. Oral histories are a viable sources of understanding and interpreting the past. The elders of our communities are a wealth of knowledge – they hold the key to the past. They have knowledge of significant events, personal reminiscences, genealogies, and traditional knowledge. Value them. There are morals to certain stories while others convey messages of importance.