Cree elder Louisa Buck was going through the many pieces of moose hide and the countless beads she has accumulated over the years. They seemed to call out to her, she said.
Activate your Online Access NowFor perhaps one more time, she recently completed another piece of work. Buck, who lives in Nipawin, decided in the spring to fashion a special jacket out of her pieces of moose hide, adorning it with traditional frills and elaborate floral beadwork. After working on it for weeks, she finished it in July.
Asked through the translator what she recalled about her childhood, she said that although she contracted whooping cough when she was small, she was always healthy and happy. She added that there was a Catholic school in the town of Cumberland House that accepted Métis children, but did not accept “treaty Indians.”
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