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  • October 13, 2001
  • Terry Lusty, Sweetgrass Writer, Buffalo Lake

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  • October 13, 2001
  • Terry Lusty, Sweetgrass Writer, Buffalo Lake

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  • October 13, 2001
  • Terry Lusty, Sweetgrass Writer, Lethbridge

With the end of April staring them in the face, the Indigenous Sport Council (Alberta) was pressed to complete its qualifying rounds in all 17 sports, involving a slate of approximately 760 athletes registered for the 1997 North American Indigenous Games this August in Victoria.

As the qualifiers were winding down, one of the later events to transpire was the April 11 to 13 track and…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Terry Lusty, Sweetgrass Writer, Lethbridge

With the end of April staring them in the face, the Indigenous Sport Council (Alberta) was pressed to complete its qualifying rounds in all 17 sports, involving a slate of approximately 760 athletes registered for the 1997 North American Indigenous Games this August in Victoria.

As the qualifiers were winding down, one of the later events to transpire was the April 11 to 13 track and…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Terry Lusty, Sweetgrass Writer, Lethbridge

With the end of April staring them in the face, the Indigenous Sport Council (Alberta) was pressed to complete its qualifying rounds in all 17 sports, involving a slate of approximately 760 athletes registered for the 1997 North American Indigenous Games this August in Victoria.

As the qualifiers were winding down, one of the later events to transpire was the April 11 to 13 track and…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Gary Elaschiuk, Sweetgrass Writer, Lac La Biche

Budding Metis and Native artists and artisans from Alberta are being offered a chance to develop their talents in a 10-month program that will start this fall in Lac La Biche. The Native art development program will be run by Zone One of the Metis Nation of Alberta starting in September.

The program is aimed at giving Metis and Native artists and artisans the opportunity to hone their…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Gary Elaschiuk, Sweetgrass Writer, Lac La Biche

Budding Metis and Native artists and artisans from Alberta are being offered a chance to develop their talents in a 10-month program that will start this fall in Lac La Biche. The Native art development program will be run by Zone One of the Metis Nation of Alberta starting in September.

The program is aimed at giving Metis and Native artists and artisans the opportunity to hone their…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Gary Elaschiuk, Sweetgrass Writer, Lac La Biche

Budding Metis and Native artists and artisans from Alberta are being offered a chance to develop their talents in a 10-month program that will start this fall in Lac La Biche. The Native art development program will be run by Zone One of the Metis Nation of Alberta starting in September.

The program is aimed at giving Metis and Native artists and artisans the opportunity to hone their…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Kenneth Williams, Sweetgrass Writer

Fort Chipewyan Homecoming:

A Journey to Native Canada

By Morningstar Mercredi with photographs by Darren McNally

48 pages, Lerner Publications Co.

$19.95 (h.c.)

Fort Chipewyan Homecoming is a book written for children aged eight to 12 years old. It is about Matthew Dunn, the author's son, who returns to Fort Chipewyan to visit with relatives and learn more…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Kenneth Williams, Sweetgrass Writer

Fort Chipewyan Homecoming:

A Journey to Native Canada

By Morningstar Mercredi with photographs by Darren McNally

48 pages, Lerner Publications Co.

$19.95 (h.c.)

Fort Chipewyan Homecoming is a book written for children aged eight to 12 years old. It is about Matthew Dunn, the author's son, who returns to Fort Chipewyan to visit with relatives and learn more…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Kenneth Williams, Sweetgrass Writer

Fort Chipewyan Homecoming:

A Journey to Native Canada

By Morningstar Mercredi with photographs by Darren McNally

48 pages, Lerner Publications Co.

$19.95 (h.c.)

Fort Chipewyan Homecoming is a book written for children aged eight to 12 years old. It is about Matthew Dunn, the author's son, who returns to Fort Chipewyan to visit with relatives and learn more…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Barb Grinder, Sweetgrass Writer, Fort MacLeod

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A slid show and lecture on the images and history of art collecting in relation to Aboriginal people was offered at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump on May 3.

Presented by Alfred Young Man of the Peigan tribe, the talk was part of a series on Blackfoot traditions and Native cultural issues given at the interpretive center as part of the Dog Days program.

Young Man, who…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Barb Grinder, Sweetgrass Writer, Fort MacLeod

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A slid show and lecture on the images and history of art collecting in relation to Aboriginal people was offered at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump on May 3.

Presented by Alfred Young Man of the Peigan tribe, the talk was part of a series on Blackfoot traditions and Native cultural issues given at the interpretive center as part of the Dog Days program.

Young Man, who…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Barb Grinder, Sweetgrass Writer, Fort MacLeod

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A slid show and lecture on the images and history of art collecting in relation to Aboriginal people was offered at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump on May 3.

Presented by Alfred Young Man of the Peigan tribe, the talk was part of a series on Blackfoot traditions and Native cultural issues given at the interpretive center as part of the Dog Days program.

Young Man, who…

  • October 13, 2001
  • Shari Narine, Sweetgrass Writer, McLennan

Dennis Whitford is hoping to provide both a "spiritual (and) physical type of growth" to the 20 or so youngsters who take traditional dance instruction from him.

The boys and girls in his class range in age from five to 15 years old and meet once a week in McLennan, located about 30 km northwest of High Prairie.

Said Whitford, who learned the moves from Treaty 7 people around…