Thunder Bay’s National Aboriginal Day celebrations featured a powwow on June 21 at Marina Park, top, where people in traditional regalia and those without danced to the beat provided by a number of drum groups, including host drum Little Bear and co-host drum Shadow Creek. The powwow included a special ceremony to honour youth, a feast with Aboriginal foods and giveaways at the closing ceremony.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
I grew up...
I’m happy to see the ongoing support and assistance in our northern remote communities to help our people cope with so many lifelong and generational issues...