As a child I went to Keheewin Elementary School. The school’s name “came from Chief Keheewin of the Cree Indian Band…named after the ‘Eagle’ (‘Kehew’ in Cree).” But while attending there I don’t recall ever meeting any Cree people, or First Nations people of any kind, for that matter. Even though I grew up living on Treaty Six Territory I had no knowledge that such a treaty existed. Nor did I have any meaningful connection with the Plains and Woods Cree, Assiniboine, or other nations who signed that treaty, a treaty that made it possible for immigrant families, like mine, to live a quiet suburban life in Edmonton, AB.
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