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The story of Pat Marr and his daughter Shenisa

 
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The Current and a live audience gathered at the Yukon Arts Centre for a special town hall called: Fathers without Fathers - Aboriginal men in Canada. It was a program to discuss Aboriginal fathers - a demographic that has been called the greatest untapped resource in the lives of aboriginal children. That quote, comes from Ed John, Grand Chief of the First Nations Summit in British Columbia. Our producer in Halifax, Mary Lynk shares the story of Pat Marr and his daughter, Shenisa from the Indian Brook First Nation in central Nova Scotia.