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Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day

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Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day. We encourage you to take time with your families and attend the activities in your areas to join us in celebrating our culture and the healing journey of reconciliation that we are all on. The best education is walking alongside to better understand.

“A breeze is stirring, change is coming. Feel the sun on your wings.” - Excerpt from the Council of Indigenous Grandmothers.

This picture is my grandchildren, our generations coming up - standing inside the tipi and placing their hands on the tipi. There are many life teachings that come from the tipi.

Building Strength, resiliency and confidence in our children and teaching our ways of knowing is the way forward. Wherever you are today, walk on Mother Earth and pause... breathe and thank the Creator for another day. #nipd2019 #nipd #nipdcanada #tipi #youth #children #grandchildren #indigenous #turtleisland

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Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in the world. He has been heralded as the first Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL, making his official debut as a 1954 Chicago Black Hawks player on Hockey Night in Canada and teaching Foster Hewitt how to pronounce his name. Sasakamoose played against such legends as Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, and Maurice Richard.