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By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 KENORA \u2013 Donald Kelly Sr. remembers Aug. 7, 1974, as the day his daughter was born, and the day he ceased participating in the armed occupation of Anicinabe Park. Kelly said his brother, also among the Anishinaabe occupiers, told him police wanted to have a word with him at the park\u2019s perimeter. \u201cAnyway,\u201d Kelly recalled 50 years later, \u201cI go over and the police \u2013 I don\u2019t know who it was, the police chief or one of the superintendents or whatever you call them, but he was talking to the leadership at the gate and when I got over there, he says \u2018Are you Donald Kelly?\u2019 \u201cI said \u2018Yeah, who wants to know?\u2019 \u201cAnyway, they said \u2018Mr. Kelly, this morning a daughter was… <\/p>\n

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By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 KENORA \u2013 Donald Kelly Sr. remembers Aug. 7, 1974, as the day his daughter was born, and the day he ceased participating in the armed occupation of Anicinabe Park. Kelly said his brother, also among the Anishinaabe occupiers, told him police wanted to have a word with him at the park\u2019s perimeter. \u201cAnyway,\u201d Kelly recalled 50 years later, \u201cI go over and the police \u2013 I don\u2019t know who it was, the police chief or one of the superintendents or whatever you call them, but he was talking to the leadership at the gate and when I got over there, he says \u2018Are you Donald Kelly?\u2019 \u201cI said \u2018Yeah, who wants to know?\u2019 \u201cAnyway, they said \u2018Mr. Kelly, this morning a daughter was... <\/p>\n

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