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Windspeaker - Canada's National Aboriginal News Source
publishing since March 1983.
Contributing Editor: Debora Steel
Windspeaker is Canada's most widely distributed Aboriginal news publication and the most effective means of reaching Canada's Aboriginal people.
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Artist—Garry OkerSong—RideAlbum—Ride (2011) Label—Independent
Garry Oker is an artist who has gone beyond the single medium most artists get pigeon holed into. This cd shows he is still evolving. This album of music is Oker’s musical journey into...
Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?Torry Eagle Speaker: Honesty. We all need at least one honest friend to rely on.
W: What is it that really makes you mad?T.E.S.: Negative people who try to bring me down. I’ve been told not...
The House of Commons Finance Committee has recommended the privatization of reserve lands. The suggestion was made when the committee presented its pre-budget report before the holiday break. The committee thinks a policy such as this would help...
We’d like to take some time here to acknowledge some terrible losses our communities have suffered since the last time we published, including, and perhaps most notably, the community of Burns Lake where fire destroyed a sawmill, killing two men and...
To help re-set the relationship between the Crown and First Nations people within Canada, leaders of the Anishinabek Nation offered up a symbolic gesture. Just before the opening ceremonies of the Crown First Nations Gathering on Jan. 24, a wampum...
Whitecap Dakota First Nation in Saskatchewan and the federal government have signed a Framework Agreement to negotiate self-government. “The signing of this agreement is an important milestone along a path of renewal and reconciliation,” said...
The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne is taking steps to re-establish ancestral trade networks with other First Nations. In a ceremony conducted Dec. 6 Grand Chief Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell signed a Nation-to-Nation Trade and Commerce Protocol with Huron...
DEAR AUNTIEBy J’net AyAy Qwa Yak Sheelth Cavanagh
Dear Auntie:While Christmas is usually a very happy time in my family, this year we lost our father just weeks before. My sisters and I are trying to cope, but dad’s passing has Mom reeling. She...
While many of us are making (and breaking) well-intentioned New Year’s resolutions, one First Nation leader is sticking to his goal to live better in 2012.
Grand Chief Doug Kelly said he plans to incorporate more physical activity into his life this...
Jenna Camire, age 12, from Kenora; Sophie Bender-Johnston, age 18 from Toronto; Bineshiinh Smoke-LeFort, age 11 from Six Nations; Jared Bissaillion, age 16 from Thessalon; Parker Waswa, age 12 from Fort Hope and Charmaine Thomas, age 16 from Big...