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In their first year of competition in the Foothills High School Basketball League, the Siksika Nation High School captured top honors with a 70-67 win in a hard fought race to the finish on March 8.
Their win over the Foothills High School at the Highwood High School in High River was a see-saw affair with Siksika ahead by 10 in the first half with Foothills coming back…
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Mackinaw comes up with the big save. The rebound goes to Mackinaw who skates up to centre ice and dishes the puck off to Mackinaw. Mackinaw fakes a pass to Mackinaw on left wing, instead passing to Mackinaw on the right wing. Mackinaw shoots! He scores!
How can a player be in five places at the same time? Well, how about if it's five players, all on the same team, all in…
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Television that matters. That's what it's all about for writer/producer/director Ron Scott who owns Prairie Dog Productions.
"I am so thankful to get a chance to do something that affects people's lives," explains 32-year -old Scott, a Metis born and raised in Edmonton.
"It's very rewarding to create TV that matters, to create interesting,engaging stories about…
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It was a plan that worked, perhaps even better than expected.
When Gitxsan Hereditary Chief Barbara Clifton was asked by Native Women's Association of Canada President Marilyn Buffalo to oversee the three-day consultation conference where NWAC delegates would prepare their organization's contribution to the planning of the Aboriginal Health Institute, Clifton made sure…
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A conference organized by Bent Arrow Healing Society, entitled "Lift us up Where we Belong," focused on a variety of Aboriginal youth issues, offering presentations on health matters, healing programs, culture, education, sports, drama, employment, parenting,and networking.
The youth-oriented event occurred March 19 to 20 at Edmonton's Ramada Inn. More than 125 youth…
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Students and staff watched with wide eyed interest as motivational speaker Norbert Georget lifted up a body bag. Some of the students gasped as Georget described the mangled bodies that he had to put into bags such as the one he displayed.
According to Georget teenage drunk or drugged driving is the number one killer in North America today. Many young people die each year…
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David Gabriel Tuccaro is up to his elbows in business ventures, enjoying prosperity and success. Planning, staying committed through the difficulties, reading, taking courses to keep current, and hiring "the right people" are the reasons his dreams come true, he says.
Tuccaro imparts his business philosophy to his several companies: "to create opportunities for Aboriginal…
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Terrying About
Tansi.
So, how many readers of the March issue of Sweetgrass believed the rumor that there are 16 candidates for the president's position of the Metis Nation of Alberta? Actually, if the truth be known, unofficially of course, there are about six or seven. Let's see, for possibles, there are the current president, Audrey Poitras, as well as Gary…
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Talk to the Feather
The power people have when they decide to change a no longer acceptable situation is extraordinary and the way change is brought about by people is also unique since we are all individuals.
When people in First Nation communities decide to change a sad and tragic situation, like suicides, it can bring them together to work towards harmony.…
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Healing circles, Bible study groups, sweetgrass ceremonies and pastoral counselling, all available under one roof.
The Native Healing Centre in Edmonton, combines traditional healing with Christianity for urban people.
"We work with traditional healing and Christianity to promote healing among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people" said John Stellingworth, director…
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Hair today, gone tomorrow for A.K. Kootenay, the recreation director at Alexander First Nation, shaving his head is worth it if that will help young Aboriginal hockey players get to the Native Hockey Provincials in Calgary April 6 to 10.
At Alexander First Nation, Kootenay and his assistant, Gary Bruce, played a part in fundraising for Alexander's six hockey teams by…
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The need for suicide prevention training in two First Nation communities brought representatives from the Sunchild and O'Chiese First Nation RCMP and victim services from Rocky Mountain House together on March 29 to 31. The workshop "Weaving the Web" was held at the Goldeye retreat centre near Nordegg.
"We are the first group to receive this type of training," said Mandy…
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Accusations, explanations, frustration, and mixed feelings were all part of a two-day meeting at Hobemma, which is located 178 km southwest of Edmonton.
On March 29 and 30, the bingo hall on Samson Reserve, one of the four First Nations communities that make up Hobemma, was occupied by about 60 of the 5,000 residents who belong to the reserve. The members attending the…
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To mark the passing of 100 years since the signing of Treaty number eight, 38 First Nation communities and the federal, provincial and municipal governments will work together to organize an eventful remembrance of the treaty.
Commemoration events will take place at Grouard, to be near Willow Point, which is where the actual signing took place on June 21, 1899. Grouard is…
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Three years ago, Judith Catholique watched as two moose were cooked in the boiling waters of Great Slave Lake as a forest fire ravaged an area where her community traditionally hunted.
"We saw two moose cooking in the lake," Catholique said, remembering that day in the summer of 1994.
Last month, Catholique and her husband, Lutsel K'E Elder Pierre, were part of a 14-…