Discovery Shows Natives Mined in Province's North

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"We normally think of mining as a European pursuit, but there were miners in Manitoba a long time ago. The amount of material that must have been removed from these (quarries) is staggering," the 33-year-old archeologist said over the phone yesterday from Granville Lake, where he's spent weeks looking for artifacts left behind by some of northern Manitoba's earliest inhabitants and documenting the modern culture.

"It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in 12 years of archeological research in northern Manitoba," he said.

"They're part of the oral histories," said [Kevin Brownlee], who is Cree himself and is also recording the traditions practised by elders at Granville Lake.

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Discovery Shows Natives Mined in Province's North

By Bartley Kives

AN "amazing" archeological find in northwestern Manitoba shows aboriginals mined in the province hundreds if not thousands of ye...

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