Kettle generating station

In a landscape transformed by dams, young Fox Lake Cree Nation fishers, hunters work to preserve traditions

In a landscape transformed by dams, young Fox Lake Cree Nation fishers, hunters work to preserve traditions

On a clear crisp morning in northern Manitoba, John Henderson III and Drayden Jobb launch a single-engine boat from the Conawapa boat launch in Gilliam into the waters of the Nelson River, to pull the net they set overnight to catch sturgeon. The two young men, both in their 20s, are from the Fox Lake Cree Nation, whose people have been hunting alongside the river and fishing it for generations. "The mighty Nelson," Jobb says as the boat makes its way from shore.