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Mar 2023
21m 18s

The Sweet Spot - feat. Tantoo Cardinal &...

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Tantoo Cardinal (Killers of the Flower Moon, Three Pines) and Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Tulsa King) star in this Wabanaki tale about how people first learned to tap maple trees. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here.
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