Elder Ernest Tootoosis on Dreams and the Return of Culture

Beloved Elder Ernest Tootoosis, who gave me a green pipe bowl he had carved, told me, "Even if they take away all our land, we can still have it all; we will still be Indians because we can dream! And our culture can return because it will come in our dreams!"

Ernest Tootoosis, wearing a brown cowboy hat, tinted glasses and a dark floral shirt with orange trim, sits between birch trees with a lake behind him.