Minnie & Ben
Tamika & Minnie
Minnie’s House
Nya and Minnie
I recently discovered Minnie Uniam passed away. She was a lady I called Noohoom, “grandmother”. I was shocked when I found out. We went to visit her just this summer. The first time we visited, she got to sit with Nya. Minnie joked that Nya was a Naskapi baby, because her skin colour is so similar.
We were out walking the next day, and Minnie sent out word for us to stop by. We did, and she surprised us with tiny moccasins for Nya (you can see them in Tamika’s hands)! Minnie stayed up all night making them for us, because she knew we were leaving the next day.
She and her late husband were some of the dearest friends of ours when we lived on the reservation. I will never forget her…
We miss her dearly too. Minnie and Johnny were the first ones that came to visit us when we first moved onto the reserve. It was quite a funny conversation, we knew very little of their language and they knew little of ours. The love and kindness they both demonstrated to us through the years will long be remembered.