<font face="courier new,monospace">Heritage ‘Smoke’ signals go digital<br><br>Native Culture<br><br>Posted By Jeff Tribe, Tillsonburg Independent<br> <br>Quinn Donelan may not have been fully aware of the allegorical potential of his question.<br>
<br>But the Pt. Burwell Public School student's inquiry if First Nations education and communicator Dan Smoke had ever sent smoke signals was right on the mark.<br><br>Smoke, along with wife Mary Lou and Kim Crawford's visit to the school Thursday was facilitated by Carla Matos. The Native educators and communicators opened with a school-wide assembly before visiting individual classes, including Lisa Koivu's Grade 5/6 group, a session which produced Donelan's query.<br>
<br>Dan Smoke has in fact physically created traditional smoke signals, which in his response to Donelan, he compared to an early form of binary computer communication. Computers use combinations of 'on or off' (binary switches) in extremely complex functions. Smoke signals were similarly arranged into regulated spaced 'puffs' to create understandable messages.<br>
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