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CANADA. Today’s images are courtesy of New Zealand’s outstanding Black Ferns women’s rugby sevens team, which won the recently completed HSBC SVNS Series tournament in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Black Ferns’ LinkedIn post shows the team receiving a warm Musqueam welcome at Vancouver International Airport (YVR).
“What a beautiful welcome from the Musqueam people,” the post reads. “Ngā mihi nui (thank you so much) for having us.”
Picking up on the post, The Moodie Davitt Report’s New Zealand-born Founder & Chairman Martin Moodie writes: “Ngā mihi nui to the Musqueam people and YVR for welcoming our wonderful Black Ferns in such a warm and embracing way.
“Lovely to see the Waiata [song] response too. Two proud indigneous cultures finding common ground in this wondrous place called Vancouver International Airport within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam Indian Band.” ✈
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{Click on the YouTube icon to learn more about the Musqueam people. Archaeological evidence of the Musqueam heritage dates back 8,000 to 9,000 years}
