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Former chief mourned

Article Origin

Author

Sweetgrass Staff

Volume

13

Issue

8

Year

2006

Page 3

John Snow Sr. of Morley passed peacefully at his home on June 15. He is predeceased by wife Alva and survived by seven adult children and several grandchildren. Snow Sr. served as chief of the Nakoda-Wesley First Nation from 1968 to 1992 and again from 1996 to 2000. He was an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada and an author. His book These Mounains Are Our Sacred Places (1977) was recently reprinted by Fifth House Publishers.