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4/30/2007
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Non-Indians Help Youth Find Ojibwa Roots
Author: San Grewal Source: Toronto Star
Title: NON-INDIANS HELP YOUTH FIND OJIBWA ROOTS
For the first time in his life, on a small island in Georgian Bay, Darrell Mixemong, a 21-year-old recovering alcoholic, holds onto a piece of his heritage. This one he's made himself.
He runs a sure hand down the tanned hide of an Ojibwa deerskin shirt, feeling the line where the next cut has to be made, then deftly trims the excess leather. Its intricate design involved days of punching holes to create patterns he designed himself, then meticulously weaving long strips of leather through them.
It's what Gino Ferri, an expert on aboriginal Canadian culture and founder of the program Mixemong is enrolled in, calls "ethos."
Ferri, an Italian-born Canadian, and his team of outdoor survivalists at Survival in the Bush Inc. – a Muslim woman named Jennifer Khan he affectionately calls "Pocahontas" and a young white outdoorsman named Tyler VanderMolen – are helping Christian Island and Beausoleil First Nation youth recover their lost culture.
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