Elie Dumont Interview (2)

Elie Dumont was interviewed in Duck Lake. He recounts stories about his uncle, Gabriel Dumont. He hunted bison, birds, and antelope. Some episodes narrated in the 1973 interview (1) are slightly different from their version in the second interview. During his exile in the US, Gabriel worked in the Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show. Elie argues that the government's inaction on scrip was among the causes of the Resistance. In this interview, Elie states that he went to school for two years - at school he spoke French and English, while at home he spoke Michif. In the wintertime, he worked in the bush, cutting logs and selling posts. Elie used to live in Batoche and St. Laurent. When he was young, in the fall he threshed for a month. He never drove a car, taking the train to go from Duck Lake to Saskatoon. Elie drove horses and worked plowing wit oxen two acres at day for one dollar. During holidays and parties, Elie played the fiddle and jiggled.