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Sagatay, November 2007 / January 2008

Susan Beardy had never been face-to-face with a live moose before. During a hunters festival in Kitchenuhmaykoosib (Big Trout Lake) this past fall, Susan found herself in that very position. It wasn’t just any moose, either. It was a bull, towering and powerful.
A young Eliza Chlidforever ran faster than she probably should on the uneven ground. This was a matter of life, after all. “Hurry!” she’d been told in the Oji-Cree language everyone spoke. “The baby is coming fast.”
Having a child with special needs is a challenge, definitely. But the rewards far outweigh the perceived hardships. Brandon was born on a cool March evening in 1993 in Winnipeg at the Health Sciences Centre.

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