Sagatay, October/November 2004
 | This past July, while I was in Muskrat Dam to attend a Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) signing ceremony, Chief Frank Beardy asked me if I wanted to see the muskrat dam that his community is named after. |
 | Watching a group of youth who were crafting traditional birchbark baskets and a wigwam at the community school, gave Elders Jessie Wabasse, Sr., Lizzie Suganaqueb and Messiah Shewaybick a chance to remember details from their past, such as a trip that Wabasse’s grandmother, Nancy Jacob, took by birchbark canoe over a century ago. |
 | As a refreshing northwest breeze blows through the black spruce along the lakeshore about five kilometres north of Webequie, Jamie Spence, Krystal Suganaqueb, Wilfred Yesno and Darren Lentz quietly work under the warm Aug. 20 sun, digging through the moss for spruce roots. |
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