The most important video I've ever seen. I don't know if the producer of this video would allow me to share this, if I can... Grand Chief Stan Louttit, RIP (his father and my grandfather were brothers 💞)
Oh how I love and miss my home town Moose Factory so much! Growing up here in the 70's, from my experience, was so fun! Lots of fresh air activities, being outside in nature every day, being part of this wonderful community 💗💗💗
is he from orkney???? i stay in edinburgh scotland but the name louttit is from orkney and im 1000% certain that i'm related to this guy cuz he sounds like he has a less strong version of my grandads accent. i feel so weird seeing people that are probably some what close relatives on youtube when i search my last name hahah
Hello, hope you get this message: yes, the family surname comes from Orkney Islands, not exactly sure where. Are you Canadian indigenous? So a short background: Scottish workers came to James Bay through Hudson Bay working for the Northwest Company (I believe...) and also Revillon Frères. Through research, many indigenous Louttits from this region know that there were 4 Louttit brothers from Orkney (Stromness, hopefully I'm correct!). These brothers married Cree women and the rest is history. I am positive that one of those original brothers moved out to western Canada. So there are Louttits all over Canada who have Scottish ancestry along with their Cree matriarchal lineages (myself included). My paternal grandfather, is the brother (both deceased now of course) of Stan Louttit's father, Stanley Louttit Sr. The aforementioned brothers' paternal grandfather was one of those Orkney Louttit workers.
A wonderful insightful video. Thank you and the photography accompanying the video was perfect, although as your ex public health nurse from the 1970,s I would have loved to see more.
Northern Ontario, southern tip of James Bay. Moose Factory/Moosonee. They are two communities on the Moose River, they are very close to each other, Moosonee is on the mainland and Moose Factory is an island.
Thank-you for sharing this. My darling daughter informed me that she wants to go to the pow wow next summer to watch jingle dancers and eat bannock. I guess I will have to suck up my fear of possibly offending every native american and take her.
@@denepride2910 I would love if this is true, but, as much as I’d love too(go to a powwow… I always feel like a settler asshole in a group of natives in Canada. Not sure how to shake that off. I do wish Canadian settler culture would merge a little more with Native cultures. It might feel more like a true country then. Everyone loves camping/going out on the land; And everyone loves Bannock.
