The First Christmas Tree: An Innu Tale dance Shelley Knott-Fife

Shelley Knott-Fife

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The First Christmas Tree: An Innu Tale dance Shelley Knott-FifeIt is very cold in the Far North. The Great Manitou knows that winter is the harshest season for the Innu, and he decides to find a way to make their winters a little brighter. He searches through the trees in the forest to find one who will bring joy, beauty and warmth to all. Could it be the larch, the tree that the Innu use to make sleds, bows or ointments? The birch, malleable and robust? Or the magnificent black spruce? "Do you want to become the