Saturday, November 11, 2017

A Membertou linguist reads In Flanders Fields in Mi'kmaq


Honouring Aboriginal Veterans.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mikmaq-membertou-remembrance-day-1.4395774


"Bernie Francis stands in the shadow of the cenotaph, the Mi'kmaq poem flowing from his lips. Each time, the linguist says, he gets a little closer to the souls buried in the words. The words that schoolchildren mouth at assemblies each November. The lines written by bereaved Canadian physician and soldier John McCrae after burying his student and friend."



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