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Fiddles, steel guitars produce sound reminiscent of barn dances
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REVIEW
The Mighty Mohawks, Various Artists.
Independent, 1995
Fiddles, steel guitars produce sound reminiscent of barn dances
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REVIEW
The Mighty Mohawks, Various Artists.
Independent, 1995
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It was a case of necessity being the Mother of Invention.
Darrell W. Pelletier was a student teacher preparing lesson plans for his Wednesday practice teaching. He wanted to include a story for the pre-kindergarten class, and since the bulk of the children were of First Nations ancestry, he was looking for something with contemporary Aboriginal content.
Tuesday evening arrived and Pelletier still hadn't found an appropriate storybook - so he wrote his own.
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In the beginning it was just a joke, and in the end, well it turned out to be a joke. Tuesday morning, Jocelyn Wasacase tells me about the Saskatchewan's Indian Federated College women's hockey team, and how I should come to the practice.
Well, I'd never skated on boy's skates before, and I had no equipment. Being the conversationalist, I continue to ask about the game.
"You don't need to be able to skate. We all start off like that,"Wasacase encouraged "Just come out, you'll have fun. Besides, we need the players."
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In the beginning it was just a joke, and in the end, well it turned out to be a joke. Tuesday morning, Jocelyn Wasacase tells me about the Saskatchewan's Indian Federated College women's hockey team, and how I should come to the practice.
Well, I'd never skated on boy's skates before, and I had no equipment. Being the conversationalist, I continue to ask about the game.
"You don't need to be able to skate. We all start off like that,"Wasacase encouraged "Just come out, you'll have fun. Besides, we need the players."
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When the Kilgours want to stage a family reunion, all they have to do is show up at a Buffalo Bandits' lacrosse game.
Brothers Rich, Darris and Travis Kilgour, who have spent a good chunk of their playing careers in Canada, are this season all on the roster of the Bandits, the professional squad which competes in the Major Indoor Lacrosses League. Besides Buffalo, other entries in the six-team MILL are the Baltimore Thunder, Boston Blazers, New York Saints, Rochester Knighthawks and Philadelphia Wings.
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When the Kilgours want to stage a family reunion, all they have to do is show up at a Buffalo Bandits' lacrosse game.
Brothers Rich, Darris and Travis Kilgour, who have spent a good chunk of their playing careers in Canada, are this season all on the roster of the Bandits, the professional squad which competes in the Major Indoor Lacrosses League. Besides Buffalo, other entries in the six-team MILL are the Baltimore Thunder, Boston Blazers, New York Saints, Rochester Knighthawks and Philadelphia Wings.
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Smith Atimoyoo says he just sits and talks to anyone who will listen at Wanuskewin Heritage Park. But the 80-year-old from Little Pine Reserve was the driving force behind the creation of this internationally-renown park.
Jim Herriott, Windspeaker Contributor, Saskatoon
Elder Smith Atimoyoo is known throughout the prairie provinces as a "nice guy". The mention of his name brightens the features of anyone who knows him.