This is the story of Joseph Dion, a descendant of Indian Chief Big Bear, who lived in what some call the Northwest (on Turtle Island) and an experience that happened you should know about.
Dion recounts a story told to him by one of his parents: A party of Cree and Chippewa were traveling in the Winter of 1869 in the NWT. One group went north; the other south.
grassfires had earlier scorched the land
everyone was starving
there was a pestilence
there had been an eclipse of the sun
a deaf elder said “a Man in white appeared to me last night…”
“The man in white in the dream told us to head for the mountain [Sharlo].” Food and shelter were waiting for us there. This was an unexpected refuge, from snow and storm, where our lives were spared.“
Source: Dion, ‘My Tribe the Crees” (1979)
*Sharlo is a forested low mountain area about 2 hours east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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