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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Melina Walling and John Locher

More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land

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Ganebik Johnson started learning traditional Ojibwe songs when he was about 2 years old. He'd hang around listening to his uncle sing, or observe elders, or even pull up music on YouTube. Spearfishing came shortly after, at around age 7, when his grandfather took him out on a northern Wisconsin lake for the first time.

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