Goodbye to the honey bucket - Windspeaker.com

Goodbye to the honey bucket Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share   By Xavier Kataquapit I never quite realized how hard life was when I was growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast. At the time in the 1980s, our Elders saw the community as becoming modernized and more comfortable compared to what they had known a few decades before. Our summer mornings when there was no school had a routine. My dad Marius would wake with the dawn just as he had always done when he grew up on the land. My mom Susan would do the same and in the blue light of the early morning w…