Those who know : profiles of Alberta's native elders

Summary: The elders in Those Who Know, like hundreds across the nation, continue lives that preserve in whole or in part, the ways of their ancestors.  These people lead the most spiritual of lives.  Despite have experience insult and oppression, they have maintained sometimes forbidden practices for the betterment of their people and all people.  The thirty-one profiles here are about people who have lived every kind of life - on the trapline, in the army, in a camp on the move, in jail, in residential schools, on the reserve.  Through these lives they have counselled, prayed, fasted, healed, and helped birth.  In interviews and reconstructions, Dianne Meili has captured memories of a past almost and soon to be forgotten, of everything from birthing while a camp was on the move to the trials of the Sun Dance.  At the same time, the stories of these elders guide us to a necessary future, which values Mother Earth and hold important the community of all existence.