Sharing

If a person kills one moose, he shares and shares alike. Everyone has the same amount, no matter how many people around here. This is still carried out.

Some people might change. When they kill a moose and just keep it for themselves. But we are still doing the same thing. We kill one moose and everyone gets a piece out of it.

When we plant potatoes, even if we don't have much potatoes, Everybody gets a little share out of the garden And if they go fish, a few of them go to the lake and get some fish, Everyone gets the same amount of fish, That's just the way we live here in Jean Marie.

Some people get away from the old ways, But we still hold to our old ways, how our parents brought us up.

Chief Louie Norwegian, Jean Marie River, 1975