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Feb. 10th, 2009
Hello from Red Deer
Feb. 10th, 2009 07:39 pmI'm here in a hotel room, as I have a conference to attend in the morning. I often get lonely in hotel rooms, so I brought some DVDs to watch on the computer. Hopefully this will help.
I drove a different way here and stopped off at Hobbema, which is a little hamlet located in the middle of a bunch of reservations. It's got a bad reputation for gang warfare, but I really wanted to check it out and see for myself. It was pretty interesting. The only white people I saw were the people working as all the rest of the people were First Nations. People were extremely friendly and there were a lot of stray dogs running around. I wandered around and took a lot of pictures. I wandered into a little mall which was run by a Chinese family who employed First Nations people. I took a bunch of pictures of them, and then they took a pic of me, which was pretty funny.
After that, I wandered down to the cemetery and took pics of some of the graves, which were decorated in ways that I'd never seen before.
Pics will be up on flickr and facebook soon.
I drove a different way here and stopped off at Hobbema, which is a little hamlet located in the middle of a bunch of reservations. It's got a bad reputation for gang warfare, but I really wanted to check it out and see for myself. It was pretty interesting. The only white people I saw were the people working as all the rest of the people were First Nations. People were extremely friendly and there were a lot of stray dogs running around. I wandered around and took a lot of pictures. I wandered into a little mall which was run by a Chinese family who employed First Nations people. I took a bunch of pictures of them, and then they took a pic of me, which was pretty funny.
After that, I wandered down to the cemetery and took pics of some of the graves, which were decorated in ways that I'd never seen before.
Pics will be up on flickr and facebook soon.