A lot of peo­ple who have nev­er vis­it­ed a First Nations reserve or been hunt­ing think that a tru­ly tra­di­tion­al way of life is a thing of the past, some­thing that hap­pened a cen­tu­ry ago. Lau­rence Neepin how­ev­er, at only 48 years old, has vivid mem­o­ries of an upbring­ing in which he learned to live off the land, a child­hood that many of us can­not begin to imag­ine. For his father and grand­fa­ther, the wilder­ness expe­ri­ence was even more extreme. In many ways Lau­rence rep­re­sents the gen­er­a­tion between the bush and the big city. We exam­ine some of the things he learned as a child and try to under­stand how his views on tra­di­tion­al Abo­rig­i­nal edu­ca­tion com­pare to that of the mod­ern school sys­tem. We encour­age you to join us on this jour­ney and hope you enjoy the interview.