Dene Náoweré Kó - Canada's Digital Collections

The drawings, poetry, and stories by the youth of Deline show a remarkable depth of experience and knowledge about our community, the land and the wildlife in and around Great Bear Lake. This is linked to a strong sense of self-confidence on the land, and a bond with the family members with whom the experience of hunting, cooking and eating off the land has been shared.r

Two Big Ugly Bushmen
by Clarence Tutcho, Grade 11, Deline

Two years ago, on the 21st of August, it was really dark and raining and my friend and I were walking to my sister’s. My sister’s house was way up there beside the old airport. We were almost at my sister’s house. It was half a mile away.

Suddenly, somebody started to throw rocks at us and whistle at us. It was coming from the bushes. We did not stop walking. Then two big ugly bushmen were standing in the middle of the road and looking straight at us. So my friend and I ran back to my friend’s house.

The bushmen started running after us. They caught up to us and grabbed my friend, and I started running to someone’s warehouse. I broke the door and grabbed a gun, and started walking back where they grabbed my friend.

I saw them, but my friend was gone. This time there were three of them. I sneaked up to them and started shooting at them, I stop and look there were only two down.
Suddenly I woke up in my room. The first thing I did was go to my friend’s house. They saw he had not come home since yesterday. So I went to the place where I shot those two bushmen. There was blood everywhere, but the bodies were gone.

This happened to a friend of a friend of mine.

This digital collection was produced with the financial assistance from Canada's Digital Collections Initiative, Industry Canada.