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› IN MEMORY OF IGNATIUS VIZENOR ‹

AUGUSTUS HUDON BEAULIEU

ELLANORA BEAULIEU

JOHN CLEMENT BEAULIEU

LAWRENCE VIZENOR

Ignatius Vizenor was born May 4, 1894,son of Michael Vizenor and Angeline Cogger,on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. He wasa dapper dresser, wore a fedora, and fought for a nation thatonce inspired natives in the fur trade. The surname Vizenorwas derived from Vezina in New France. Private Vizenorwas killed in action on October 8, 1918,at Montbréhain, France.

Ignatius Vizenor was buried atSaint Benedict’s Catholic Cemetery on theWhite Earth Reservation. The military coffin was sealed,and no one at the funeral could account for his entire remains.Thousands of soldiers were harrowed in the soil thatearly autumn at Alsace, Lorraine, Champagne,Ardennes, and Picardy in France.

Raven created the world for his amusement

and people were the most amusing

of all animals to him.

In the Company of Crows and Ravens

JOHN MARZLUFF, TONY ANGELL

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Blue is not aggressive and violates nothing;

it reassures and draws together…. The same is

true in many other languages: bleu, blew, blu, blau are reassuring and poetic words that link color, memory, desire, and dreams.

Blue: The History of Color

MICHEL PASTOUREAU

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The French early gained the utmost

confidence of the Ojibways, and thereby

they became more thoroughly acquainted

with their true and real character, even during the

comparative short season in which they mingled

with them as a nation…. The French understood

their divisions into clans, and treated each clan

according to the order of its ascendency

in the tribe.

History of the Ojibway People

WILLIAM WARREN

Today a bird flew near our battery during the chaos.

It seemed stunned and no wonder when man has so

upset the order of life. What a blessing will it be

when mother nature has the running of the

universe to herself again.

The Diary of Elmer W. Sherwood

EDITED BY ROBERT H. FERRELL

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Houses are eviscerated like human beings

and towns like houses. Villages appear in crumpled

whiteness as though fallen from heaven to earth. The

very shape of the plain is changed by the frightful heaps

of wounded and slain…. Turn where you will,

there is war in every corner of that vastness.

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad

HENRY BARBUSSE

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Touching war memorials, and in particular, touching

the names of those who died, is an important part of

the rituals of separation … thus testifying that whatever the

aesthetic and political meanings which they may bear, they

are also sites of mourning, and of gestures which

go beyond the limitations of place and time.

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

JAY WINTER