Rick Mirasty is a fluent Cree speaking defense attorney from Big River, Saskatchewan. When Richard Mirasty was three months old, he was rescued from foster care by his maternal grandparents, and was raised from the age of three by his maternal grandmother, Rose. Growing up in Green Lake, Saskatchewan, Mirasty recalls speaking solely Cree at home. He only began speaking English when he attended Catholic school at age six. His family hauled and cut their own wood, maintained their own garden, and picked berries that Rose would preserve and can. Mirasty remembers that his uncles and maternal grandfather would supply the family with fish and wild meat.
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