Search for roots

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Search for roots

Date3/8/1986

Names

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Umpherson, Don (photographer)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Search for roots: Children of The Three Fires Society play outside the two-room schoolhouse where they're taught ''total development of mind, body and spirit.'' The 12-family Ojibwa community is trying to return to original tribal values on a 480-acre property near Sudbury

Subject

Indigenous peoples

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)

Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTS-1-SB-601C-UMPHERSON001

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