Falcon, Walter Interview

Walter discusses his rich family heritage, including his relation to both the song-poet writer Pierre Falcon and to Cuthbert Grant. He goes on to recall his personal experience of abuse in a Catholic convent school, the traditional songs that his family would sing and their practices of hunting and medicine, their experiences with road allowances and their holiday traditions. Walter also recalled finding the graves of three young men executed at Fort Battleford, his great-great grandfather's involvement in the 1885 Resistance, his family's experience with the scrip, and his own experience as a child with the RCMP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Keywords: Scrip, Day Schools, Road Allowance, Métis, Medicine, Racism, Catholic, Land Use(Subsistence Patterns)