[Group of Children Playing in Snow Bank Next to School]
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Author/Creator
Hans Dommasch
Description
Colour photograph taken at Cape Churchill, MB, November 1988-1989.
Historical note:
"Born at Sandy Lake on June 11, 1885, this grandnephew of Chief Poundmaker attended the missionary school on the Sandy Lake Reserve, and then the boarding school in Prince Albert, where he proved an able scholar and an impressive athlete. After boarding school Ahenakew returned to Sandy Lake, where he assisted his father until he was invited to teach at a missionary school on the James Smith Reserve.