A walk to remember (fwd link)

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A walk to remember

Herb Mathisen
Northern News Services
Published Thursday, April 2, 2009

BEHCHOKO/RAE-EDZO - They trudged for hours through deep snow, breaking trail,
symbolizing their years of hard work with a walk across Marion Lake, the way
elders used to do it.

Around 50 people – students, teachers and elders – left the cultural centre in
Behchoko after a feeding of the fire ceremony in the early afternoon of March
25 to walk to a village at the end of Marion Lake.

Xaeli, or Marion Village, sits at the mouth of a river and was a place where
visitors from outlying communities traditionally used to meet.

In June, nine students will graduate from the aboriginal language and culture
instructors program offered at Aurora College, and the walk was meant to
commemorate their accomplishments.

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