Hundreds of dancers from native bands stretching from British Columbia to Maine tapped out to the beat of drum today at the Canadian Aboriginal Festival. The Grand Entry for was led by her highness, Buffy Ste. Marie, (CBC archives just posted some retro clips of Ste. Marie from as early as 1966, including a live [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Metis’
October 16, 2007
The Adventure diaries part 3: skywater
“Try a different angle, it’s hard to see,” Alice directed from her tent as I snapped away. I was trying to capture the glistening spiders’ webs in the morning mist. Alice had noticed them as she soon she stepped out of her tent. It’d been an eventful night. A bear tore into her tent, marking her with [...]
September 20, 2007
The Adventure diaries: Part 2 – Masawajo
We awoke to a cold, misty morning on Mattagami River. I squeezed some toothpaste onto my brush and took a glass of cold well water outside to brush my teeth. The others started emerging from their tents and trailers to the cabin after Leonard put on a pot of coffee. The air was thick with [...]
August 28, 2007
The Adventure diaries – Part 1: the road to Gogama
‘OK I’m just coming down Bay, I’ll be there in a few minutes!’ Laurie shouted into my cell. I’d never met her before but already she’d told me she wasn’t good with directions and neither was I. Boy was our eight hour drive to Northern Ontario going to be fun. Twenty minutes later she [...]
