Galiano Community Hall

Sounding Thunder, the Song of Francis Pegahmagabow

Galiano Community Hall 141 Sturdies Bay, BC, Canada

Sounding Thunder, the Song of Francis Pegahmagabow is a musical journey into the life of the renowned Ojibwe WWI sniper and decorated officer of the Canadian military, Francis Pegahmagabow. Composed by Tim Corlis and written by Ojibwe poet Armand Garnet Ruffo (Queen’s Associate Professor in English, Cross-appointed with Languages, Literatures and Cultures), Sounding Thunder is a complex work divided into three acts, exploring Pegahmagabow’s early years immersed in the world of the Anishinaabe spirits, his extraordinary accomplishments in the trenches of WWI, and finally his political life as Chief of the Wausauksing Ojibwe and founder of the early Indigenous political movement [...]

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