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Ernie Lafontaine and Andre Begin Sutherland are both cousins who were taken from their families as children during the sixties scoop. They discovered their mothers were sisters when the two connected in 1992.
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa recently reclaimed a cemetery for its ancestors on Superior's Wisconsin Point.
“Our language is very much endangered,” said Saik’uz cultural coordinator Deborah Page. With many recordings and interviews completed years ago in their traditional language by speakers who have since passed, translators have been difficult to come by. “They’re getting older, and we’re losing them at a very fast rate,” Page said of their language keepers. “Some of the ones that were doing the translations never really learned how to write the language, so we wanted to do a course that would teach the literacy and linguistics of the language.” Because COVID-19 has made i...