In my latest column, I share a memory of an old James Bay Cree legend about tapiskapeesim.

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In my latest column, I share a memory of an old James Bay Cree legend about tapiskapeesim.

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Chikabesh speaks to Tapiskapeesim, the night sun

By Xavier KataquapitWhen 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 in northern Ontario. In the 1980s, my family and I only spoke Inineemoon or ‘James Bay Cree’ because it was the language our parents and grandparents spoke.

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