Dora Kakakaspan, Married to Chief George Kakakaspan, daughter of Mary Crow. Dora Fort Severn Memories Dora is one of the only kids in the gallery to appear more then once as a child. There's a perfectly logical reason for this. When Mary Crow gave birth to Dora, she was in Sioux Lookout for a whole month. She was pregnant again a year later and when she came to Sioux Lookout that time, she brought her year old daughter, Dora, with her. Once she had given birth to Loraine, Dora's new sister, Peggy Sanders came to visit. She took pictures of both the kids, unfortunately the picture of Loraine has been misplaced. So that explains why there are two pictures of Dora one year apart. Dora was raised in Fort Severn, where she has a lot of family. Her most vivid childhood memories are family activities, things like boat rides with her father and picnics on the coast of Hudson Bay. While she was growing up there was no television so they had to find other ways to keep busy. They were quite good at that she recalls, she would play with her sisters and brothers for hours back then. She worked as a school councilor at the local school for several years. Here she developed meaningful and lasting relationships with many of the different girls and boys in the community. She smiled a little when she told me that sometimes she misses that connection with the students. While she was working at the school she always tried to teach the students things like confidence, self-esteem and good work habits. Once the students had those skills they could do just about anything. "I try to make them [the youth of Fort Severn] realize that they can do anything if they work for it," she said, trying to give me a feeling for what she did as a councilor. Now she works at the band office, for this job she finds that she travels a lot. She likes to travel but she says that the best part of traveling is always getting back to Fort Severn. She says that Fort Severn is different, it's something that can't be explained but once you've grown up there you can always feel it. There is an abundance of wildlife and the land is vast and open, which makes for easy overland traveling. It's a great place to hunt, fish and camp. I asked her what made Fort Severn special and she replied, "I wouldn't move away if you paid me," she later elaborated, "Not permanently, I might move away for a year to get education or to see other places, but I'll always come back here. It's my home."