That connection, like the roots of these maple trees, runs deep. “You’d have to go back about 12,000 years when we lived up by the St Lawrence Seaway, up on the East Coast, kind of at the end ...

We weren't doing very good. We were really struggling. And that maple tree, it offered its lifeblood to us to make sure that we survive," Wyatt said. "So culturally, it's very important to our people.