![]() ![]() I ask him if, as a writer and CBC journalist, he’s aware of himself as a role model for aboriginal kids. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. He’s naturally amiable, and seems to lack the instinctive guardedness that could have grown in the son of a culture that has been oft betrayed, and long repressed. There’s something boyishly agreeable about Rice, even with his tattooed arms, and the long hair fit for a metal band, or a warrior blockade. “Definitely I’d say we’re on the outskirts,” he quips. He talks of swimming in the bay, or hanging out with friends at the ball field, listening to rap and metal. The social problems on reservations in Canada are terrible and well-known - the residential schools, substance abuse, suicide, the murdered women - though Rice paints a warm picture of his own childhood, on the island reservation near Parry Sound. Article content Waub Rice, novelist and CBC TV reporter, photographed with a Norval Morrisseau painting in the Ajagemo gallery on Elgin Street on Aug. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.National Capital Region's Top Employers. ![]()
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