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As part of a new Intrepid experience, travellers can now join members of the Huron-Wendat in their immersive First Nation<\/strong> community, where no questions are off limits.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I ask our local Huron-Wendat host, Dominic, how long his Indigenous community has been welcoming visitors, I’m thinking about modern tourism \u2013 the kind that brings Intrepid groups to Wendake<\/a>, on the outskirts of Quebec City. He grins. \u2018Oh, since 1534 when the first Frenchmen came out of the boat.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominic Ste-Marie is a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation and a professional storyteller \u2013 with a playful sense of humour, obviously. He\u2019s youthful and easygoing, vibrating with energy and pride for his craft and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our group has gathered\u00a0with him\u00a0inside\u00a0Wendake\u2019s\u00a0longhouse,\u00a0a\u00a0traditional Indigenous dwelling.\u00a0There are no windows, so at first my eyes must first\u00a0adapt to the darkness.\u00a0I can\u00a0then\u00a0make out\u00a0the rows of\u00a0bunk beds\u00a0that could house dozens of family members together, dried ears of corn hanging from\u00a0above, and a small hole in the roof to let out smoke from the cooking fires.\u00a0We are\u00a0invited\u00a0to sit,\u00a0assembling on simple\u00a0log\u00a0stools around\u00a0a lit\u00a0fire.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0time for a story.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I lean in, eagerly. For just a few hours earlier, another Wendake guide had told us something that stopped me cold. The origins of the name \u2018Huron\u2019. I thought I knew all about this word \u2013 after all, I\u2019m Canadian, and grew up in a region of Ontario nicknamed \u2018Huronia\u2019, supposedly after the original peoples of the area.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except that wasn\u2019t their<\/em> name for themselves. In all my years of schooling, I was never told what I learned in Wendake, what Huron actually meant something derogatory: \u2018boar\u2019s head\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Nation welcomes the world<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Quebec City is often described as one of the most European places to visit in Canada<\/a>. One of the earliest French settlements in the country, it has maintained its charming, cobbled streets and historic city walls that travellers love. But a 15-minute drive away, a visit to the community of Wendake provides a different perspective on Canadian history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Dominic pointed out, Wendake has been welcoming guests for centuries. More recently, the First Nation community has hosted inquisitive travellers for interactive experiences that aim to share the rich history and living culture of its people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving at the Huron-Wendat Museum, we are greeted by staff in traditional clothing who walk us through hundreds of years of history. As it turns out, they are directly connected to the Indigenous inhabitants of Georgian Bay, where I\u2019m from, something I never knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s here I\u2019m first told the word \u2018Huron\u2019 is from the French word \u2018hure\u2019, meaning boar\u2019s head: a derogatory settler term for the Wendat warriors\u2019 hairstyles. The contemporary term of \u2018Huron-Wendat\u2019 restores the chosen name, meaning simply: \u2018islanders\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a stark moment that reveals what happens when other people get to tell your stories. But happily, that baton is now being passed back to the Huron-Wendat themselves, who are reclaiming their own narrative once more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more: How to connect with Indigenous culture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wendat Nation storyteller Dominic Ste-Marie at Wendake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Myths and legends<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2018It\u2019s a very foundational human experience to just sit by a fire, gaze into the flame, being hypnotised and listening to some stories,\u2019 Dominic tells me. He grew up in the area, listening to his grandmother tell stories, like the creation story of Mother Earth, and became a professional storyteller about 13 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominic says he decides on which story to tell based on the listeners in front of him. \u2018It’s very much vibe-based,\u2019 he explains. \u2018It’s really about making sure I feel like I can say something that’s going to be useful.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the longhouse, our group hears the tale of the Corn Husk Doll, after a guest asks about some dolls without faces hanging on the wall. Without hesitation, Dominic seamlessly transports us into the realm of legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Once upon a time, the Great Spirit of Corn crafted a doll made from dried husks, which was sent out to play with the children of different villages. The doll became enamoured with the children\u2019s attention, and her own beauty. After ignoring warnings to stop staring at her own reflection in a pond, the Great Spirit took her face away\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a good scary campfire story. But it\u2019s also a lesson: a reminder that no one person in the community is better than anyone else. Just one in a repertoire of morality tales created and honed by generations and passed along in longhouses, just like this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ask Dominic what he hopes listeners will take away from his storytelling sessions. Once again in Wendake, I\u2019m surprised. It\u2019s not so much the tale, or the teller, he says, but the longhouse setting itself, that\u2019s the teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Indigenous cultures had just as many ideas per person per year as any other society,\u2019 says Dominic. \u2018If we believe that we are of the same people, we will sit around the same fire. If we believe that we are of a similar scheme of thinking, we may say that we live in the same longhouse\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more: Stay with nomadic reindeer herders in Mongolia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The road to reconciliation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Travelling in your own country often hits differently. When I\u2019ve been overseas to see the archeological sites of ancient Egypt, Mayan villages in Guatemala or Viking museums in Iceland, I like to think I bring a humble curiosity, a true willingness to learn about the original peoples of the places I visit. As a Canadian travelling in Canada, I\u2019ve come to realise it\u2019s less about learning and more about unlearning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because I really did arrive in Wendake thinking I already knew the story. Then I found out I had a lot wrong. Even the history of my own hometown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing I\u2019m sure of is that this knowledge gap is no accident. Rather, it\u2019s a result of decades of deliberate erasure of Indigenous culture in Canada \u2013 language, ceremonies and stories suppressed in our education system. But I truly believe that travelling here \u2013 or wherever authentic stories reside \u2013 can be part of everyone\u2019s personal reconciliation with a complicated colonial past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to ask a local what the Huron-Wendat think about that, but, admittedly, I’m sheepish to bring it up. Questions like these can bring up uncomfortable feelings. But naturally in our conversation, Dominic opens the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I think reconciliation begins by meeting each other, by exchanging ideas, sharing moments,\u2019 he says. \u2018Here in Wendake, the storytelling activity is a place where you’re guaranteed to share these moments with an Indigenous individual who is there \u2013 with a wide understanding of this culture \u2013 so that visitors can have whatever they wonder about us, answered.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more: Hike to meet the Zapotec community of Mexico<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Wendake to the world<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wendake is one of the most accessible Indigenous tourism experiences you can have in Canada, where travellers can have a direct economic impact on supporting a First Nations community. And as passionate as Dominic is about Wendake, he\u2019s also the first to say there\u2019s much more to explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018There are just as many cultures per square kilometre of land in North America as there are in Europe,\u2019 he says. \u2018We are extremely proud of Wendake. But that doesn’t mean that we want people to stop here. We also want people to visit other Indigenous cultures’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, Intrepid is working to integrate authentic Indigenous experiences into trips wherever possible around the world \u2013 from Australia<\/a> to Mongolia and Malaysia<\/a>. In Canada, it has partnered with the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada to support the growth of Indigenous tourism across the country and ensure travellers leave with a deeper connection and understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know that connecting with Dominic in the longhouse taught me things about the Huron-Wendat identity and the history of this land that our education system has failed to acknowledge. I leave with a whole new perspective on where I come from, and a new way to say thank you for it: tiawenhk, Wendake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet the Huron-Wendat First Nation of Wendake on Intrepid\u2019s Discover Quebec<\/a> adventure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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