William Sewap- Climate Change- Extreme Events

This audio recording talks about the break up of ice in the springtime. This audio recording is in Cree and the English translation is below. "Every year it changes, this place. The way I look at it, it's changing every year. (In springtime to[o]?) Yup, it's a slow spring. (You don't see the breakup of ice anymore?) Yup, it's slow. (It's a slow breakup of the ice. The ice spoils slowly.) Yes, it only melts away now. There used to be 4 feet of ice that time, 5 feet flowing in there before [the E.B. Campbell] dam in there. When you block [the Saskatchewan] river, all the water will back up, it used to flood all over the place. (It was a big spectacle, the Saskatchewan River was breaking up- oh could hear it from Cumberland, just like thunder.) Yes, it made lots of noise, that big thick ice chee- boooommm- just like a bulldozer sometimes in the bank."