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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland
your a lucky fellow to know those folks....charlie
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Charlie,
The Aboriginal people of North Central Saskatchewan are wonderful people. They cross paths with French Canadians whom they greatly dislike. The feeling among the French Canadians is mutual. When I first made friends with an Aboriginal and he began taking me to tribal lands, my French Canadian friends were appalled. They told me that I would lose a lot of my French Canadian friends if I insisted on going to tribal lands. I continued to go but never lost any of my French Canadian friends, one of whom I stayed with every year. They soon accepted my friendship with the Aboriginal people but told me that I was never to sleep with a “squaw”. I never did, but not because of the threat.
Both the French Canadians and the Aboriginal people are among the finest people I have ever met. Both looked forward to my two week annual trips and treated me like one of their own. Once I bemoaned the fact that I was going to miss Thanksgiving Day back in the states. The French Canadians got together and threw a big Thanksgiving feast for me. My friends and their relatives were all there. We had a wonderful time and I got another great memory to treasure.