“There were nine of us children and two parents… the five-gallon bucket quickly filled up.”

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Goodbye to the honey bucket

By Xavier Kataquapit I never quite realized how hard life was when I was growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast. At the time in the 1980s, our Elders saw the community as becoming modernized and more comfortable compared to what they had known a few decades before.

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