« Natural raw material. In French, it is called ‘first material’ – matière première. ‘First,’ because it is the beginning of a cycle, but, above all, ‘first,’ because it is essential, primordial. The same is true when we speak of the First Peoples: We know they are our beginnings, but they are also the horizons before us, custodians of forms of knowledge and wisdom that are not yet within our reach, we whom they call their little brothers...».