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Windspeaker.com @Windspeaker@mstdn.ca
· 1mo ago
“We're looking for the truth in gold that was being carried to put down an Indigenous resistance. So our story runs really deep. Just like my hope. It runs really deep.” Starts tonight! #Indigenous #Métis #television #history #gold
Red River Gold series returns for second season
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Red River Gold series returns for second season

Season two of a popular treasure hunting documentary series will begin on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network on Sept. 24.The first season of Red River Gold was nominated for five Rosie Awards, annually presented by the Alberta Media Production Industries Association for various film and television categories.

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Windspeaker.com @Windspeaker@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
“We've already come through so much and we finally make it out west… finally are settled with the people for quite some time, and then it happens again.” #Indigenous #Métis #books #children #buffalo #language #culture
Métis Cree writer shares culture and history in buffalo racing children’s story
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Métis Cree writer shares culture and history in buffalo racing children’s story

Growing older with16 grandchildren was all the impetus Métis Cree writer and artist Sherry Leigh Williams needed to produce her first children’s picture book.“As the (Elders) die off, there isn't anybody left to tell the story,” Williams said. “It felt to me really important to do something for the kids.”In Papaashi Bufloo: The Buffalo Who Raced Horses, Williams tells the story of her great-grandmother Mary Anne Deschamps Rabaska, who was born in 1875 near Pigeon Lake, Alta.

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Windspeaker.com @Windspeaker@mstdn.ca
· 9mo ago
“Everybody has an auntie like that who doesn't give a crap about anything and will say what she thinks. And who will just be like, ‘Meh, whatever.’ And will wear t-shirts that say, ‘Check your privilege’…” #Indigenous #Métis #graphicnovel #books #youngreaders
Second book in three-part series leaves readers on the edge
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Second book in three-part series leaves readers on the edge

Author Wanda John-Kehewin is all about teasing her readers a little, but she’s hoping not to leave them hanging for another three years to see where Damon Quinn’s life takes him. Dreams: Visions from the Fire, her second book in a three-book series, available Feb. 24, leaves the story on a personal cliffhanger.

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