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Boy connects with family

Fort Chipewyan Homecoming:

A Journey to Native Canada

By Morningstar Mercredi with photographs by Darren McNally

48 pages, Lerner Publications Co.

$19.95 (h.c.)

Fort Chipewyan Homecoming is a book written for children aged eight to 12 years old. It is about Matthew Dunn, the author's son, who returns to Fort Chipewyan to visit with relatives and learn more about his ancestors' ways.

Kids tune into their culture

Dennis Whitford is hoping to provide both a "spiritual (and) physical type of growth" to the 20 or so youngsters who take traditional dance instruction from him.

The boys and girls in his class range in age from five to 15 years old and meet once a week in McLennan, located about 30 km northwest of High Prairie.

Said Whitford, who learned the moves from Treaty 7 people around Calgary, "Dancing is a very rewarding, enriching experience for myself and I'd like to have the children have the opportunity to have that experience."

Kids tune into their culture

Dennis Whitford is hoping to provide both a "spiritual (and) physical type of growth" to the 20 or so youngsters who take traditional dance instruction from him.

The boys and girls in his class range in age from five to 15 years old and meet once a week in McLennan, located about 30 km northwest of High Prairie.

Said Whitford, who learned the moves from Treaty 7 people around Calgary, "Dancing is a very rewarding, enriching experience for myself and I'd like to have the children have the opportunity to have that experience."

Kids tune into their culture

Dennis Whitford is hoping to provide both a "spiritual (and) physical type of growth" to the 20 or so youngsters who take traditional dance instruction from him.

The boys and girls in his class range in age from five to 15 years old and meet once a week in McLennan, located about 30 km northwest of High Prairie.

Said Whitford, who learned the moves from Treaty 7 people around Calgary, "Dancing is a very rewarding, enriching experience for myself and I'd like to have the children have the opportunity to have that experience."