Public Speaking

We offer storytelling to businesses and organizations with the goal of demystifying reconciliation. Dave has a unique point of view on Indigenous culture as a result of growing up outside the First Nations community due to the “60’s scoop”.  This “two-eyed seeing” approach allows him to see both sides of the relationship between Canada and his people and he has a passion to learn as much as he can to help facilitate better relationships between the two Nations as well as reclaiming his own culture.  This unique position affords him a point of view that allows him to share his culture and its history from an understanding that is uncommon.  Dave is passionate about reclaiming his culture and sharing it with you.  

 The stories of the Indigenous origins of Canada’s oldest incorporated city are not widely known. Prior to the arrival of Europeans to this area, families and friends gathered around fires and told stories handed down through the ages. Learn the importance of stories and how their timeless wisdom still applies today.

When Samuel-de-Champlain first arrived in the Saint John harbor he was met by the Indigenous inhabitants of the village of Ouigoudy that called the Wolastoq their home.   

Their expertise and knowledge of the land proved invaluable to the new visitors and would ultimately allow the creation of Canada’s first incorporated city.  Explore the relationship Fort la Tour had with the Wolastiqiyik people and how this location is the origins of Saint John, and Canada itself.