The Cree Literacy Network is in great company today sending our very best wishes to Sarah Harper, who is celebrating her 111th birthday yesterday at Bunibonibee Cree Nation (Oxford House, Manitoba).
Sarah is also being celebrated in the Winnipeg Free Press in a feature by Alexandra Paul, and on CBC. Her portrait also features in Gerald Kuehl’s recently released Portraits of the North.
Thanks also to Winnipeg photographer Doug Thomas, whose portraits are always brilliant. Doug accompanied Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson on this important birthday mission. North Wilson, who grew up in Oxford House and has always known Sarah is speaking Cree with her in Doug’s video, below.
Wanna know the real secret to longevity? Watch the video: Evidently, it helps to speak Cree!
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