Wapos Bay is a stop motionanimated family television series that follows the adventures of three children as they explore their remote Cree community in northern Saskatchewan It is aired across Canada by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and in the United States on the First Nations Experience Network. It is aired in the languages of Cree, English, French and Inuktitut. The series was created by Dennis and Melanie Jackson of Saskatoon, and is a humorous look at aboriginal life featuring positive role models for children. The producers have been able to procure the help of people including Jordin Tootoo, Lee Majors and Mike Holmes to supply voices to their own characters. The pilot episodeThere's No "I" In Hockey received the Canada Award for best Canadian multicultural program as well as a Golden Sheaf Award for best children's production. In 2012, the film Wapos Bay: Long Goodbyes was nominated for the 2012 Kidscreen Award for Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie and end up winning against its other nominees, ZhuZhu Pets: Quest for Zhu and Heartcatch Pretty Cure The Movie: Fashion Show in Paris!! The first two seasons of Wapos Bay were coproduced with the National Film Board of Canada.
*This was a 72 minute film, not a standard 1/2 hour episode of the TV series.
Characters
These are the characters listed:
Children
Thomas Bear "T-Bear" Morin is the first character listed of the television series Wapos Bay. He is the son of Jacob and the cousin of Raven and Talon. His mother died when he was a baby and his father raised him alone. He is initially 10, later 11 years old.
Raven Marasti
Lynn is an older girl competing against Raven in the scavenger hunt in "Treasure of the Sierra Metis". T-Bear, Talon, and Devon once had a crush on her, but were all unsuccessful at asking her out to the dance.
Melanie Thunderbird is a girl who is a hockey player, and is T-Bear and Talon's new friend in "There's No 'I' in Hockey".
Betty is T-Bear's handicapped cousin, who sits in a wheelchair. She appears in the episode "All Access".
Elue Winlock is a new student in school, a hockey player, and T-Bear's new friend in "All's Fair".
Adults
Cyril "Mushom" Morin is the father of Jacob and Sarah and grandfather of Talon, Raven and T-Bear.
Roslie "Kohkum" Morin is the wife of Cyril, mother of Jacob and Sarah, and grandmother of T-Bear, Talon, and Raven. Not to be confused with Kohkum Mary. Cyril's wife's name is revealed in the episode "The Elements".
Jacob Morin is the son of Cyril and Kohkum, the father of T-Bear and the uncle of Raven and Talon. He works in the Wapos Bay First Nation BAND OFFICE. He wears a pink sweater annually for Breast Cancer Awareness Week and also when The Village People broke up. He has the same surname as Raven's Cree voice actress and Devon's Cree voice actor. Closed captions for the show have mistakenly spelled his surname "Moren".
Sarah Marasti is the mother of Raven and Talon, sister of Jacob, aunt of T-Bear, and the wife of Alphonse.
Alphonse Marasti is Raven and Talon's father, and the husband of Sarah. His name is revealed in the Mike Holmes episode and the one where Raven sneaks cereal into her mom's shopping cart without permission. He is not credited with a voice actor since a running gag is him not talking, at most mumbling.
Jordin Tootoo is a professional hockey player, a doctor, and is welcomed to meet T-Bear's family in "All's Fair".
Ancestor
Elue
Pitsi
Uncle Peter is the uncle of someone and brother of someone else. Bald with grey moustache.
