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Enos (Bud) Whiteye was remembered Saturday for his extraordinary resilience and remarkable achievements. A Celebration of life was held at the Walpole Island community centre for Whiteye who died Feb. 1 at the age of 79.  More than 60 friends and family remembered him as a man who overcame extreme abuse and heartache to become an accomplished journalist and advocate for residential school survivors like himself. This was no ordinary gathering in honour of the elder who was father to nine children, grandfather to 27 and great-grandfather to five.  It featured the showing of an award-winning film about the experience of Whiteye and six other survivors of the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School in Brantford.  Its presentation at his Celebration of Life came at Whiteye’s instructions, according to his eldest daughter Kristin Noble…