A walk to remember (fwd link)

[phil cash cash]

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. 
Phil
Quoting Rolland Nadjiwon :

> Great stuff....
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> wahjeh
> rolland nadjiwon
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> phil cash cash wrote:
>> A walk to remember
>>
>> Herb Mathisen
>> Northern News Services
>> Published Thursday, April 2, 2009
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>> 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.
>>
>> Access full article below;
>> http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/apr2_09wal-nwt.html
>>
>>


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