WAKING NANABIJOU
Uncovering a Secret Past
WAKING NANABIJOU
Uncovering a Secret Past
Jim Poling Sr.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Poling, Jim (Jim R.)
Waking Nanabijou : uncovering a secret past / Jim Poling.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-55002-757-0
1. Poling, Jim (Jim R.) 2. Mothers and sons--Canada--Biography.
3. Native peoples--Canada--Social conditions. 4. Chapleau (Ont.)--Biography.
5. Joumalists--Canada--Biography. I. Tide.
PN4913.P65A3 2007 070.92 C2007-903005-X
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Cover photo © Dick Spooner, courtesy Tourism Thunder Bay
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J. Kirk Howard, President
“The time has certainly come when the innocent child should be relieved from the stigma which society has been only too ready to place upon it … and very often block the path to its future progress and usefulness.”
— 1918 Annual Report of the Superintendent of Dependent
and Delinquent Children in Alberta
To Veronica, who gave me life; and Diane, who helped me sustain it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOOK FOUR — NANABIJOU AWAKENED