Couple keeps culture alive with bannock in a warm teepee – CBC

Barbara and Clarence Nepinak have been setting up their teepee and making bannock at the forks for 19 years

For Barbara and Clarence Nepinak making bannock in their teepee set up at The Forks is more than just an annual winter tradition; it’s part of how they pass down their culture to the next generation.

For nearly two decades the married First Nations couple — Barbara is from Ebb and Flow and Clarence is from Pine Creek — have invited people into their teepee to warm up and share some food.

“[Since] we started 19 years ago in 1999, we are now having the grandchildren of the folks that were coming to us then,” Clarence said in an interview on CBC’s Weekend Morning Show.

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