Fred Sasakamoose’s son Neil, left, and 17-year-old grandson Zaine helped with his autobiograpy after Zaine asked to hear his grandfather's life story and recorded the answers.For most of his life, Fred Sasakamoose did not like to talk about himself. He never bragged about his accomplishments.
“I don’t know how long I lay in that bush, sobbing,” he writes. “When I finally got up, I was all alone. I struggled back into my clothes and took a few steps. I felt something trickling down my legs. Blood.” It chronicles the death of one of his daughters in an alcohol-related automobile accident, and how that caused him to stop drinking. He collapsed when he heard.
When they arrived at home, police were waiting. They wanted to know if the couple had any idea where he might be. Mr. Sasakamoose knew and told them, but he was not allowed to accompany them.Hours later police returned. Their son had taken a hunting rifle with him to a teepee near a lake where he would go to smudge and pray. He had taken his own life.All of these things he had not previously discussed publicly because the memories were so painful.
Born on Christmas Day in 1933, he grew up with 10 siblings in a 10- by 24-foot log home that had no electricity or running water. He was taught to skate on a slough behind his home by his paternal grandfather, who was unable to talk. His grandfather Alexan, or moosum, carved him his first hockey sticks out of willow branches and provided him with pucks fashioned from frozen horse manure.Mr.
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