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My Future I always wanted to go to upgrading, but I thought I could never fit in. It's been over thirty years that I have been out of school. Last June, I phoned Lakeland College about their LEARN program. I was told about the Literacy program that they were going to start at the Friendship Centre, at the end of that October. At first I was scared. Thanks to the instructor, and the support of the other students, I learned about math, |
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about myself.
This program gave me the courage to want to continue my schooling. Jenny Moyah | |
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Allen Sapp Gallery We went to North Battleford to visit Allen Sapp's gallery. I was looking at the paintings and I saw one about the Sundance. I stood there for a few minutes just looking at it. I felt something. | |
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In the painting, the Elders were sitting around. The helper was standing in the middle of a few dancers. I felt so good that I could see myself dancing and praying. It felt so real to me. Even though I was only standing there for a few minutes, I got lost in the painting. Not everybody would feel what I felt in that gallery. Although all the other paintings were very good, this one brought back memories. Jenny Moyah |
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The Pow-Wow Trail I started bead work when I was about nine or ten years old. I got interested by watching my grandmother and mother doing it. After some time I started helping them, and the more I did it, the more I liked it. As I got older, I kind of gave up doing bead work. I had my own family to look after. Now that they are grown up, I have started doing bead work as a hobby, and as a living. I meet the ladies that are interested in my work, and sometimes I sell a pair or two of earrings to them. Mostly though, I go to pow-wows and manage to sell most of the bead work I have collected in the winter. Jenny Moyah | |
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Helping Each Other When my mom started the Literacy program, I was busy playing floor hockey after school and I never had time to see her work, or her books. Then one day I was doing a research project, on the Plains Cree Indians, for school, and my mom said she would look at her school to see if there were any books I could use. She found one book for me and I used it a lot. My mom learned how to work on computers and a lot of other things in the Literacy program. I hope she keeps it up and stays in school. | |
| I am very sorry that I didn't have time in the beginning, but now I help
her when she asks.
I am very proud that my mother went back to school to learn. Janice Lynn Moyah |
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