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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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The oka crisis was a turning point for many people, Native and non-Native. For singer/songwriter Rick Patterson, it marked a new direction in his career.
"I was at home listening to the news about Oka when suddenly the words just started coming to me. First the thunder rumbles, then a flash across the sky. There stands the Great Spirit with a tear in his eye," says…
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The oka crisis was a turning point for many people, Native and non-Native. For singer/songwriter Rick Patterson, it marked a new direction in his career.
"I was at home listening to the news about Oka when suddenly the words just started coming to me. First the thunder rumbles, then a flash across the sky. There stands the Great Spirit with a tear in his eye," says…
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The oka crisis was a turning point for many people, Native and non-Native. For singer/songwriter Rick Patterson, it marked a new direction in his career.
"I was at home listening to the news about Oka when suddenly the words just started coming to me. First the thunder rumbles, then a flash across the sky. There stands the Great Spirit with a tear in his eye," says…
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The oka crisis was a turning point for many people, Native and non-Native. For singer/songwriter Rick Patterson, it marked a new direction in his career.
"I was at home listening to the news about Oka when suddenly the words just started coming to me. First the thunder rumbles, then a flash across the sky. There stands the Great Spirit with a tear in his eye," says…
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Leo Neilson is one of the youngest of a growing group of successful Native artists based in Winnipeg.
The 27-year-old half Cree painter who signs his work "Sweetpea" didn't pick up
a paint brush until he was 16, as no one in his family was artistic. But the work of two artists got him started. One was Benjamin Chee Chee, whom he never met but whose innovative work…
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Leo Neilson is one of the youngest of a growing group of successful Native artists based in Winnipeg.
The 27-year-old half Cree painter who signs his work "Sweetpea" didn't pick up
a paint brush until he was 16, as no one in his family was artistic. But the work of two artists got him started. One was Benjamin Chee Chee, whom he never met but whose innovative work…
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Leo Neilson is one of the youngest of a growing group of successful Native artists based in Winnipeg.
The 27-year-old half Cree painter who signs his work "Sweetpea" didn't pick up
a paint brush until he was 16, as no one in his family was artistic. But the work of two artists got him started. One was Benjamin Chee Chee, whom he never met but whose innovative work…
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Leo Neilson is one of the youngest of a growing group of successful Native artists based in Winnipeg.
The 27-year-old half Cree painter who signs his work "Sweetpea" didn't pick up
a paint brush until he was 16, as no one in his family was artistic. But the work of two artists got him started. One was Benjamin Chee Chee, whom he never met but whose innovative work…
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Sam Warrior remembers when he began studying photography at college in 1980, many of his teachers wanted him to take all reference to his heritage out of his work.
"Native art wasn't considered art," he says. "I was either kitsch or artifact. If you wanted to be taken seriously, to play with the big boys, you had to take the Native element out altogether. Even the…
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Sam Warrior remembers when he began studying photography at college in 1980, many of his teachers wanted him to take all reference to his heritage out of his work.
"Native art wasn't considered art," he says. "I was either kitsch or artifact. If you wanted to be taken seriously, to play with the big boys, you had to take the Native element out altogether. Even the…
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Sam Warrior remembers when he began studying photography at college in 1980, many of his teachers wanted him to take all reference to his heritage out of his work.
"Native art wasn't considered art," he says. "I was either kitsch or artifact. If you wanted to be taken seriously, to play with the big boys, you had to take the Native element out altogether. Even the…
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Sam Warrior remembers when he began studying photography at college in 1980, many of his teachers wanted him to take all reference to his heritage out of his work.
"Native art wasn't considered art," he says. "I was either kitsch or artifact. If you wanted to be taken seriously, to play with the big boys, you had to take the Native element out altogether. Even the…
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A little gray at the temples and a few laugh lines hint that the tall, powerful man might be a little older than first guessed at.
Moses Bignell, 52, also strikes one immediately as a man who earned that touch
of gray honestly, through rough, hard work.
Bignell, the trapper, collector, actor, designer, mechanic, band councillor and community activist is a…
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A little gray at the temples and a few laugh lines hint that the tall, powerful man might be a little older than first guessed at.
Moses Bignell, 52, also strikes one immediately as a man who earned that touch
of gray honestly, through rough, hard work.
Bignell, the trapper, collector, actor, designer, mechanic, band councillor and community activist is a…
Page 18
A little gray at the temples and a few laugh lines hint that the tall, powerful man might be a little older than first guessed at.
Moses Bignell, 52, also strikes one immediately as a man who earned that touch
of gray honestly, through rough, hard work.
Bignell, the trapper, collector, actor, designer, mechanic, band councillor and community activist is a…