"Indian Lawsuits on School Abuse May Bankrupt Canada Churches" (front page, Nov. 2) reminded me of the grievous stories told by a Cree Indian friend who was taken from his home to a Saskatchewan boarding school at age 6.
Maggie attends a junior high school called Buzzdale Academy with her best friend Rayna Cartflight (Cree Summer) and nemesis Dawn Swatworthy (Strong).
This sotto voce invitation was a great gift to us — to Cree, to me, and to a friend, Will, who was traveling with us — because for the rest of the crossing we lasciviously uttered, at least hourly, what we decided should be the new Cunard motto: "Cunard.
He built a log cabin on the lake, which he named Cache Lake, and his story unfolds in the wilderness with his friends, Chief Tibeash, a Cree, and Henry Kane, an illustrator whose work appears in the book.
Now 46, King got his start in the sport just over the road from the racecourse here, taken on at Cree Lodge Stables by the trainer John Wilson, a friend to the family of the then 18-year-old who had been hooked by watching racing on television.
By Day 7, Cree and I are threatening them with the treatment a friend calls "the Full Amish" — all plugs pulled.
Stanley, 56, a white farmer, killed Boushie, a Cree man, in August 2016, after Boushie, his girlfriend, and three friends drove onto Stanley's farm; their Ford Escape had punctured a tire.
Using my wife Cree LeFavour's recipe for vanilla ice cream, and after some trial and error, along with the assistance of her friend Anya, she nailed it.
She sits shoulder-to-shoulder with friends and family in the community centre of John D'or Prairie, one of three communities that comprise Little Red River Cree Nation in northern Alberta, closer to the border with the Northwest Territories than it is to Edmonton.
Cree is diminutive and fragile.
