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By James McDonald Photographer Kitchenuhmaykoosib
    During the second week of February I was in the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Native Reserve on Big Trout Lake (500 miles north of Thunder Bay) covering the hockey for development program run by Right to Play Canada’s PLAY program and the...
By David P. Ball Windspeaker Contributor BURNS LAKE, B.C.
An occupation of the Burns Lake band office in northern B.C. ended dramatically on April 7 when between 30 and 50 RCMP officers stormed the building–some allegedly with firearms drawn–to evict seven protesters holed up inside, including four...
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As we go to press, the Prime Minister of Canada has retreated to South America, far away from the storm that is whipping through the Conservative caucus over the dubious gift of $90,000 to disgraced Senator Mike Duffy from Stephen Harper’s very own...
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By Adam Martin
Rank Comix for May 2013         .     .     .. By Adam Martin
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By Shari Narine Windspeaker Contributor EDMONTON
It was a long six weeks for cast and crew of the Prairie Dog Film + Television production Blackstone, but after waiting almost two years to shoot the third season of the Gemini-award winning production, they were hours well spent. “Getting to know...
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By Shari Narine Contributing Sweetgrass Editor FORT CHIPEWYAN
There is an important piece to the issue of murdered and missing Aboriginal girls and women that Mikisew Cree First Nation Chief Steve Courtoreille wants to see addressed. “We have to educate our children,” he said. Educate girls on being safe and...
Compiled by Shari Narine
(Back row from left) Donna Desnomie (Director of Post Secondary and Higher Learning -Peepeekisis Cree Nation), Richard Ironquil (Headman - Peepeekisis Cree Nation), Ed Hourd (Business and Training Representative - Parkland College); (front row)...
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Compiled by Debora Steel
A group of influential Indigenous leaders joined Chief Maureen Thomas and the Council of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in the signing of an International Treaty to protect land, water and Indigenous ways of life against tar sands projects. With...
By Shari Narine Sweetgrass Contributing Editor CALGARY
It is not only a matter of not being consulted on the draft First Nations Education Act, it is a matter of only warranting a telephone conference call from federal Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister Bernard Valcourt. “It was...
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Compiled by Shari Narine
Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee stands with survivor Charlotte Contin and her daughters Dot and Judy from Henvey Inlet First Nation at the Union of Ontario Indians monument that honours survivors of the Indian Residential Schools System. The...

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