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The Alberta Provincial Museum is telling the story of 500 generations of Aboriginal people with the opening of the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture.
With 900 sq. m of space, over 3,000 artifacts and an 11,000 year frame of reference, the new, permanent exhibit at the Edmonton museum is an excellent learning tool for Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people alike…
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Unlike who was recently kicked out of the Canadian Senate for missing too many meetings, newly appointed senator Thelma Chalifoux plans on attending every meeting and hearing the Senate holds.
A grandmother to 45 (15 of them great-grandchildren) Chalifoux takes all of her responsibilities seriously. From a young age growing up, in what she describes as a traditional Metis…
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In spite of its recent federal approval, the Cheviot coal mine near Jasper National Park is continuing to raise concerns. . . this time globally. According to one Edmonton-based environmental group, the Japanese are expressing their worries through the Consulate General of Japan.
Gray Jones, executive director of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, said he received a…
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In spite of its recent federal approval, the Cheviot coal mine near Jasper National Park is continuing to raise concerns. . . this time globally. According to one Edmonton-based environmental group, the Japanese are expressing their worries through the Consulate General of Japan.
Gray Jones, executive director of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, said he received a…
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In spite of its recent federal approval, the Cheviot coal mine near Jasper National Park is continuing to raise concerns. . . this time globally. According to one Edmonton-based environmental group, the Japanese are expressing their worries through the Consulate General of Japan.
Gray Jones, executive director of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, said he received a…
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Francis Bad Eagle and his Eagle Claw Society hosted one of the season's final yearly powwows at Edmonton's Airport Hangar along Kingsway Avenue from Oct. 17 to 18.
Close to 170 dancers and hundreds more visitors crowded the hangar to view or participate in the late season event which attracted people from all over Alberta in addition to a few out-of-province guests .…
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Francis Bad Eagle and his Eagle Claw Society hosted one of the season's final yearly powwows at Edmonton's Airport Hangar along Kingsway Avenue from Oct. 17 to 18.
Close to 170 dancers and hundreds more visitors crowded the hangar to view or participate in the late season event which attracted people from all over Alberta in addition to a few out-of-province guests .…
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Francis Bad Eagle and his Eagle Claw Society hosted one of the season's final yearly powwows at Edmonton's Airport Hangar along Kingsway Avenue from Oct. 17 to 18.
Close to 170 dancers and hundreds more visitors crowded the hangar to view or participate in the late season event which attracted people from all over Alberta in addition to a few out-of-province guests .…
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The Dreamcatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference was in itself a dream come true for many of the Aboriginal youth attending.
The three day conference from Oct. 24 to 26 was attended by over 1,500 youth aged 10 and over from communities across north and western Canada, including Old Crow, Yukon and Providence, N.W.T., Manitoba, B.C., Alberta, and Saskatchewan.
This was…
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The Dreamcatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference was in itself a dream come true for many of the Aboriginal youth attending.
The three day conference from Oct. 24 to 26 was attended by over 1,500 youth aged 10 and over from communities across north and western Canada, including Old Crow, Yukon and Providence, N.W.T., Manitoba, B.C., Alberta, and Saskatchewan.
This was…
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The Dreamcatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference was in itself a dream come true for many of the Aboriginal youth attending.
The three day conference from Oct. 24 to 26 was attended by over 1,500 youth aged 10 and over from communities across north and western Canada, including Old Crow, Yukon and Providence, N.W.T., Manitoba, B.C., Alberta, and Saskatchewan.
This was…
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Rocky Barstad, a descendant of the Tsuu T'ina First Nation, and one of the mural artists featured in the soon-to-be-opened Aboriginal Peoples Gallery at the Provincial Museum of Alberta in Edmonton, is the winner of the 1997 Peace Hills Trust Native Art Contest.
This is the 15th year the competition has been held.
For Barstad, who owns an art gallery in High River…
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Rocky Barstad, a descendant of the Tsuu T'ina First Nation, and one of the mural artists featured in the soon-to-be-opened Aboriginal Peoples Gallery at the Provincial Museum of Alberta in Edmonton, is the winner of the 1997 Peace Hills Trust Native Art Contest.
This is the 15th year the competition has been held.
For Barstad, who owns an art gallery in High River…
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Rocky Barstad, a descendant of the Tsuu T'ina First Nation, and one of the mural artists featured in the soon-to-be-opened Aboriginal Peoples Gallery at the Provincial Museum of Alberta in Edmonton, is the winner of the 1997 Peace Hills Trust Native Art Contest.
This is the 15th year the competition has been held.
For Barstad, who owns an art gallery in High River…
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After an absence of 30 years, high school football returned to Lac La Biche this fall and, yes, after a three-decade break the team looked a little rusty at times this season.
The J.A. Williams High School Huskies are just wrapping up their first season in Alberta's Wheatland high school league.
Half of the team is made up of Aboriginal athletes who live in the…