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The raven fatty legs5/9/2023 ![]() Volume 2, Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in Manitoba by Justices Hamilton and Sinclair because being from northern Manitoba, and then moving to Winnipeg, the stories of Helen Betty Osborne and Joseph Harper echoed throughout my childhood, teen years and early adulthood. What inspires my writing Two books have been especially important to my writing. For a kid who lived at the edge of the bush or out on the farm, the Scholastic books that we ordered through school were like Christmas a few times a year. I was also a big fan of Gordon Johnston’s It Happened in Canada series. My childhood reading I’m not sure if there were any well-known Indigenous children’s book authors when I was a kid but Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf is a book that I really enjoyed. ![]() Smith sent me a package of fan mail from her students including a poem I had written when I was in Grade 3! Attached to the poem was a Post-it that said “I always knew you would be a writer.” Michael Hutchinson (Misipawistik Cree Nation), The Case of the Burgled Bundle (Second Story Press) My dad also did everything he could to keep me on the land and teach me what he remembered from his childhood though he was taken from home as a baby and kept at residential school, then Indian day school. ![]() I also learned about our stories and knowledge systems from my wilp (this is a house group which is comprised of one or more families tied together through clan and history). ![]()
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