Why Maskwacis? Alberta First Nation to be visited by Pope a community of proximity and history, locals say

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Why Maskwacis? Alberta First Nation to be visited by Pope a community of proximity and history, locals say
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Bruce Cutknife. "The fact that we didn't understand the instructors would mean punishment," the soon-to-be-68-year-old told CTV News Edmonton.

Bruce Cutknife.

With consultation of its elders and in ceremonial fashion, Maskwacis tore down the building in the 90s and built the Ermineskin Junior Senior High School. In the decades since, on-reserve enrolment has increased from 30 per cent to 70 per cent, says Matthew Wildcat, a University of Alberta political science and native studies professor who grew up in Maskwacis.

"Clearly, he is determined," Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith, who is coordinating the trip, said in June. "It's a significant site … which Indigenous peoples are connected to and have a relationship with Catholicism," Wildcat said, adding there exists a"real syncretism" of Catholic and Cree spiritual practices in Maskwacis, too.

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