“Some of our families have a long history of running. There are stories about hunting a long time ago. We used to run after the deer. The deer is fast for a good little while, but you keep going. You run and be determined to keep running, and you’ll catch up to him, because the deer gets tired after a while. These are some of the stories that I shared.”

“We were told to hand the flame to this white runner who was famous. He was a white runner, and he ran the flame into the stadium. I didn’t think too much of it myself at the time, but people said that they should have given us more exposure, to have run the flame that far.”

“One of the experiences of residential school is the runners having to run after runaway girls. One of them was called Rose. When the runner brought Rose back to the school, she got punished. They used a hockey stick on her and physically abused her. And that guy thought she had died. Rose didn’t die, and, in the film about the Front Runners, Rose was brought to see the runner who brought her back.”