God's Explorers Interviews

The Producers would like to thank the following people featured in the documentary. They generously gave their time, knowledge, and opinions to enrich the program.

	Joanne Barnaby is a Community Development Consultant based in Hay River, NWT. She attended residential school as a young girl and later became active in the Dene Nation. As a former Executive Director of the Dene Cultural Institute, Joanne is intimately connected to the history of the North.
	Joachim Bonnetrouge is a former Dene band chief from Fort Providence. He was sent to residential school at the age of five and today, is still dealing with the trauma from that experience
	Joá Boots is well known and well-respected Dene elder who has lived all his life on the land. Born in 1911, he is a devout Catholic and still remembers meeting his first missionary in 1916.
	Robert Choquette is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa specializing in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada. He is the author of The Oblate Assault on Canada’s Northwest
	Bishop Denis Croteau is the Oblate Bishop of the Mackenzie region. Born in Quebec, he traveled North in the early 1960s to take up missionary duties during a time of tumultuous change.
	Father Rene Fumoleau is an Oblate missionary who’s chosen to retire in a remote Dene village. He’s also a poet (Here I Sit, The Secret), a photographer and a champion of Dene rights. He wrote the landmark book on Dene Treaty rights entitled, As Long as This Land Shall Last.
	Raymond Huel is Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge and an expert on Oblate history in Western Canada. He is the author of: "Proclaiming the Gospel to the Indians and the Métis: The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Western Canada, 1845 -1945 .
	Father Guy Lavallée is an Oblate missionary in Manitoba who works closely with the aboriginal community on healing. As a Metis priest, he offers a unique insight into the Oblates’ legacy. He is the author of "Prayers of a Métis Priest".
	Father Achiel Peelman is Professor of Theology at St. Paul University in Ottawa and author of, Christ is a Native American. He is an Oblate priest, originally from Belgium.
	Father Camille Piché is Provincial of Grandin Province in charge of missionary activities in Alberta and the NWT. His ministry has been marked by profound change – from both inside, and outside the ranks of the Oblates.
	Nick Sibbeston is from Fort Simpson, where he was raised by his Dene grandmother. Sent to residential school at a very young age, Nick Sibbeston went on to train as a lawyer, later becoming premier of the Northwest Territories and now a Senator in the Canadian Government.
	Terry Villenueve was born near Fort Resolution and grew up on the land before being sent to residential school. She is a strong Catholic and a leader in the parish church in Fort Simpson.