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Canada at War: MANITOBA: Cute Crees

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Chief Night Owl (real name: Roxy Hamilton), a Manitoba legislator, let out a secret for which his male constituents might well have scalped him. Cree braves, said he, invariably predict a light winter; otherwise their squaws would make them get into the woods, cut fuel for the winter woodpile.

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