Orcadians Head to Canada for Family Powwow Islanders and Canada's Native Cree Indians Celebrate Ancient Bonds and Friendship

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IN 1771, the year Captain James Cook completed his first voyage around the world, an Orkney man by the name of Magnus Twatt set out for Canada, where, like many islanders before him and after, he joined the Hudson Bay Company.

Little did his family expect that more than 200 years after his death in 1801, the native American peoples of his adopted homeland and his Orkney descendants would call each other brother and sister.

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Orcadians Head to Canada for Family Powwow Islanders and Canada's Native Cree Indians Celebrate Ancient Bonds and Friendship

The story of Orkney's links to the Cree nation of Saskatchewan is one of shared suffering, perseverance and an unshakeable belief in common bonds that stretch across the centuries and half way around the world.

And this summer, a group...

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