Campbell River, Canada / Turtle Island
In April 1985, Masatoshi Sawai and ten other members of the Ainu Dance Troupe took a 12-day tour of British Columbia. They visited Campbell River and met Kwakwaka’wakw elders of the Wei Wai Kum nation. Sawai, who also worked for the Sapporo-Ainu Cultural Association, spoke to the New Canadian newspaper about the discrimination faced by Ainu in Japan.