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Editor: To Blake Richards, MP, Wild Rose: Dear Blake, is there an opportunity to include the Buffalo Nations Museum in your Economic Recovery Plan as an adjunct to the Restorative Plan taking place in Banff for the Cave & Basin? The museum is an icon

Editor:

To Blake Richards, MP, Wild Rose:

Dear Blake, is there an opportunity to include the Buffalo Nations Museum in your Economic Recovery Plan as an adjunct to the Restorative Plan taking place in Banff for the Cave & Basin?

The museum is an icon in Banff and has for years been unable to raise funds for a new roof. The exhibits are now at risk of water damage and visitors must walk around plastic buckets in areas where the rain comes in.

In my view, it makes no sense to have visitors see the magnificent murals done by Roland Rollinmud at the Cave & Basin and then have to walk around buckets in the museum.

Prime Minister Harper, at the recent gathering of First Nations, declared some changes will take place between our relationship with Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. The millions of dollars proposed for the Jasper Walkway compared to $150,000 needed for a roof on a museum operated by First Nations is a symptom of how native people are viewed in Canada.

I am bringing this to your attention, because the museum is seen by visitors from all over the world and leave deeply impressed by its uniqeness. To lose this part of Banff’s aboriginal culture and history would be a great tragedy for all.

Eileen Patterson,

Banff

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