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Neechi's
Holiday
Features:
AUTHENTIC HANDCRAFTED MOCCASINS – adult sizes @ $45, children
$25; wide selection; healthy footwear, made by Aboriginal artisans;
commercially valued artisans and best retail prices in the world!
OTHER HANDICRAFTS AND ART PIECES – selected offerings of
mukluks, gauntlets, Aboriginal prints, dream catchers and greeting cards
NORTHERN STAR FOUR-DIRECTION BAGS - $22 each; from a sister
worker co-operative that is also renowned for their star blankets (plains
tradition honour gifts); for more information and star blanket
illustrations please go to:
http://www.northernstar.coop/
ABORIGINAL CHILDREN’S BOOKS – wide selection; beautifully
illustrated
OUTSTANDING AUTHORS – Two new releases: Beatrice Mosionier,
Come Walk with Me (her own story, 25 years after her classic, In
Search of April Raintree (also available at Neechi) + David Alexander
Robertson & Madison Blackstone, The Life of Helen Betty Osborne (a
graphic novel); also other Aboriginal authors, including Ray St.
Germaine, I Wanted to be Elvis so what was I doing in Moose Jaw,
and Duncan Mercredi, Duke of Windsor (poetry)
BANNOCK – plain $3.25 / regular plain loaf or raisin $3.45,
$5.50 large plain or raisin $5.90, + special orders (whole wheat,
blueberry, etc.); Neechi’s signature product and hottest selling item,
baked daily, 7 days a week
WILD
BLUEBERRIES – $55 / 10 lbs, $30 / 5 lbs or $6.29 / lb; clean,
hand-picked and frozen in September; from NW Ontario
PICKEREL $7.49 / lb; fresh frozen and delivered direct to
Neechi; top quality, good return to fishers and far cheaper than chain
store prices!
WILD
RICE – Regular Grain $8.57 / lb + Broken $4.55 / lb; from an
Aboriginal worker co-operative in northwestern Ontario, this is the best
wild rice in the world in terms of both nutrition and taste; high
protein, high fibre, low fat; unlike most commercial wild rice it is grown
on natural stands in the Boreal Forest, not on rice paddies in the U.S.;
no chemicals have been added to make the kernels shiny black
MINAN JAMS, TEAS AND RELISHES – feature wild berries and herbs
harvested in Manitoba
BULK
RED POTATOES - $13.79 / 50-lb bag (from local farms)
MEALS AND REFRESHMENT CATERING – Bannock pizza, stews, chilli,
soups, pickerel, wild rice, chicken wings, fruit and veggie trays, banana
bread, cookies, etc.
Neechi Foods
Community Store*
(Mon – Sat 10am - 6pm;
Sun noon - 5pm)
325 Dufferin Ave. (between Salter and Main,
Jarvis & Selkirk,
a few minutes from Portage & Main)
Winnipeg, MB, R2W 2Y1;
customer line: (204) 586-5597; office : (204) 586-3798; fax: (204)
589-4862
*operated by a worker-owned cooperative
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