Where I Belong!

Ella Gull
June 14, 2011
Waswanipi

"After 3 days in the forest, my grandson said to me, "I'm bored, I want to go back to Waswanipi."

Ella Gull, Eeyou

Like many of her generation, Ella Gull was sent to residential school. In spite of herself, she had to stop going in the territory with her mother and father. She felt a great void, which she’s been trying to fill since her retirement. She’s always known that the forest is her world. By spending as much time as possible on her trap line, she’s trying to recreate her parents' way of life, even though a lot has changed. What she gains is priceless: silence, freedom and the feeling that she can finally be who she is.