I thought so too! Beats walking down the aisle in a cape and gown hands
down.
The phrase, "the way the elders used to do it" is so key here. <br
/><br />Phil<br /><br />Quoting Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn@shaw.ca>:<br
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> Great stuff....<br />
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> wahjeh<br />
> rolland nadjiwon<br />
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> phil cash cash wrote:<br />
>> A walk to remember<br />
>><br />
>> Herb Mathisen<br />
>> Northern News Services<br />
>> Published Thursday, April 2, 2009<br />
>><br />
>> BEHCHOKO/RAE-EDZO - They trudged for hours through deep snow, <br />
>> breaking trail,<br />
>> symbolizing their years of hard work with a walk across Marion Lake,
the way<br />
>> elders used to do it.<br />
>><br />
>> Around 50 people students, teachers and elders left the cultural
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>> centre in<br />
>> Behchoko after a feeding of the fire ceremony in the early afternoon
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>> of March<br />
>> 25 to walk to a village at the end of Marion Lake.<br />
>><br />
>> Xaeli, or Marion Village, sits at the mouth of a river and was a place
where<br />
>> visitors from outlying communities traditionally used to meet.<br />
>><br />
>> In June, nine students will graduate from the aboriginal language <br
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>> and culture<br />
>> instructors program offered at Aurora College, and the walk was meant
to<br />
>> commemorate their accomplishments.<br />
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