UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY Shoo-Shoo-Peh-Gun – The Day The Ocean Stood Still

By Xavier Kataquapit Every time I look out over a body of water, whether it is a lake, a river or even an ocean, I always think of Weeneebek, or what is known as James Bay in the English language. My father Marius Kataquapit was an expert boater that had travelled on this water on a freighter canoe all his life. He often took us out as children as a teaching on the water. Those trips were always fun but they were often difficult and sometimes even miserable as the Weeneebek was rarely calm and most often a rough sea of powerful cold waves and huge ocean swells that challenged us on every trip. There was only one moment in my lifetime that I was fortunate enough to witness the…

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