Elie Dumont Interview (1)

Elie Dumont was interviewed in Crutwell. He was born in St. Laurent, where his family farmed on a river lot. His parents were bison hunters, who came from Winnipeg to farm the land. His grandfather came from Quebec, and his grandmother was a Laframboise. Elie’s father ranched at Sokal. His father moved again to homestead at Bellevue, then he homesteaded by himself at the age of 22. Eventually, Elie moved to Duck Lake, working with farmers, and also as a brush cutter. Elie lived in Crutwell during the summer and in Prince Albert in the wintertime. He went to school for four years, at Duck Lake and Batoche. Crutwell was founded as an outpost for cutting and selling poles. Elie grew up hunting with his uncle Gabriel Dumont. He recounts an episode from Gabriel’s youth in an area south of Battleford, his experience hunting, and Gabriel's time spent living in the United States. Elie addresses living conditions in Prince Albert for Indigenous peoples. Finally, he describes the mobility from the reserves into town. --------------- Keywords: Land use (Subsistence Patterns), Housing, Employment, Lack of Access to Education, Integration & Mobility, Resource Degradation