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Every Thursday we offer a image from the StarPhoenix archivespreserved by the Saskatoon City Archives. Today we see Chief Eagle of Whitecap opening Canadian Reading Week in the children’s section of the old main branch of the Saskatoon Public Library on November 14, 1962. (Saskatoon City Archives StarPhoenix Collection S-SP-B5510)

From the StarPhoenix archives:

Chief Eagle, staunch leader of the Dundurn Sioux Band, officially opened Canadian Children’s Book Week on Tuesday in the children’s department of the Saskatoon Public Library. He and Mrs. Eagle are shown inspecting an exhibit of books about Indians with, from left: Judy Fribance, 9; Bonnie Orchard, 10; Debbie Wolfe, 9, and Walter Friesen, 10. Indian tradition says that each eagle feather in the headdress represents an act of courage or bravery. One of the young people asked Chief Aigle what he had done for each of the 36 feathers on his colorful headdress!

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