By Xavier Kataquapit When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon. I grew up in a very traditional Cree environment in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast in northern Ontario. In the 1980s, my family and I only spoke Inineemoon or \u2018James Bay Cree\u2019 because it was the language our parents and grandparents spoke. The language and the world my parents and grandparents raised us in were very different from those in the rest of Canada. Storytelling was very important to our parents and grandparents and many of these stories were told in humorous or frightening ways to make them memorable. One story that always stuck… <\/p>\n
By Xavier Kataquapit When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon. I grew up in a very traditional Cree environment in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast in northern Ontario. In the 1980s, my family and I only spoke Inineemoon or \u2018James Bay Cree\u2019 because it was the language our parents and grandparents spoke. The language and the world my parents and grandparents raised us in were very different from those in the rest of Canada. Storytelling was very important to our parents and grandparents and many of these stories were told in humorous or frightening ways to make them memorable. One story that always stuck... <\/p>\n