It has been ten years since the Red River Metis Group journeyed from Emerson to St. Norbert by Red River Cart, and they're making the trek once again. The group began the trip in Emerson on Canada Day and have stopped in Letellier, St. Jean and Morris. Satch Dheilly of Haywood is a great-grandson to Louis Riel's younger brother Alexander, and explains why this experience is so important.

"The culture and young people is why we are doing this.  It involves their grandparents, their mothers and fathers and it involves the Red River Carts.  In forty years from now the youth that are with us might say 'this is what we did with my grandfather and mom and dad."

He adds the Red River Valley was once used by thousands of Metis on Red River Carts coming up from Minnesota and they are celebrating that history. Dheilly says the carts have had some breakdowns and the heat has been a challenge this week. The carts which were used to haul buffalo hides are made as they were in the early 1800's with no glue or metal. Dheilly points out there's a saying which goes with the carts.

"First you hear them.  Second you smell them and third you see them.  They used to haul buffalo hides and they used to squeak.  If you had 1,000 of them you could hear them for miles.  And the hides would stink."