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Tim Restoule takes a break from traditional dancing at the Curve Lake First Nation 56th annual powwow to walk the shore of Buckhorn Lake in central Ontario, in 2013.

Drew Hayden Taylor is an Anishinaabe playwright and humorist.

Many winters ago, what once was … was changed to what many thought should be, by an act of Parliament and a functioning alcoholic. Then some time later, what is changed back to what once was, though filtered through 150 years of colonization.

It gets confusing.

There was a time everything vaguely Indigenous was being stamped out. Now, it’s being actively promoted. I’ve heard the reasoning for its revival described as HR on a nationwide level.

Events in my community are a good example. It was a busy month here in Curve Lake . While, as a whole, we wer

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