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Terrying About
Tansi!
Big things already in the new year
Say, how many of you out there have managed, so far, to keep your New Year's resolutions? Good luck to all of ya.
In Edmonton, the Provincial Museum of Alberta is fast becoming a mecca of sorts as the public beats a path to the doors of the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture. If. you have the…
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People and Places
Oki. How are you this fine February?
I'm going to start with a story from Indian Country, reprinted from Wotanin Wowapi in Poplar, Montana. The story is about a little girl named Charlie Jones Fourstar, 9, from the Fort Peck reservation in Montana. She was born with 'short gut syndrome,' which means her small intestine couldn't push through food…
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Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Phil Fontaine is hopeful that a Supreme Court decision based on a B.C. land claim case will help the Lubicon Lake Cree in their 60 year land claim battle with the government.
Fontaine told Alberta Sweetgrass the recent Delgamuukw case has opened the door for groups like the Lubicon Cree who are fighting for the rightful ownership of…
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The Awasis Parent Advisory Committee and the Edmonton Public School Board will be hosting an Aboriginal education symposium on Feb. 28. The symposium will discuss the continuation of the Awasis program into the junior high school level.
Currently, Awasis, which is a program teaching Aboriginal culture, history and identity as a regular part of a public school curriculum, is…
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The idea behind Cross Cultural Days in Pincher Creek is to build partnerships and understanding between the Aboriginal culture and non-Aboriginal culture. This year's event, featuring a two day workshop conference, competition powwow and sporting tournaments, offered something for everyone. Unfortunately, not everyone showed up. Half of the target audience - the non-Aboriginal…
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First Nation chiefs from Alberta's Treaty 6, 7 and 8 areas want to re-write the book on band accountability.
In August of last year, the federal government announced it was distributing a 92-page handbook with more than 300 questions which Canada's First Nations were to answer. The answers would show how each band would handle accountability of administration, from…
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Nicole Robertson was exposed to journalism at a very early age by her father who would faithfully watch the news and follow world events. Names like Knowlton Nash and Lloyd Robertson were familiar to her long before she made the decision to be part of the world of news media.
Her first real exposure to journalism came when she was 14 years old when she and a group of…
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Members of the Beaver Lake Recreation Association believe they aren't being treated fairly by the Lac La Biche and Area Bingo Association.
Beaver Lake band administrator Joyce Steinhauer said the First Nation's members make up 20 per cent of the nightly clientele at the nearby Lac La Biche bingo hall, yet the Beaver Lake Recreation Association has never been allowed to…
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Ashmont Secondary School made history last Nov. 25 as the official launch site of Canada's first independent, non-governmental bone marrow registry for Aboriginal peoples.
North of 60 actor, Dakota House, was one of the promoters at the launch and showed how easy it is to be tested as a potential bone marrow donor.
"I have three young daughters and I just thought…
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An Alberta-based group, peppered with members from across the country, is reaching out to help Indigenous people, this year, a Mam-Maya village in Guatemala.
Transgenus International is hoping to raise $9,000 through the sale of calendars that are graced with images of the people who dwell in the village of Comitancillo, located in the western highlands of Guatemala.…
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Winter is a time when people come trudging out from their homes, plow through the snow, and take in a round dance or two.
Round dances are now under way in earnest and one of the more recent ones at the Canadian Native Friendship Centre on Nov. 28 had about 800 people come and go. It was actually an excellent turnout given Enoch and Pigeon Lake were also hosting round…
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is not only one of the world's largest, best preserved buffalo hunting grounds, but last month it also became the latest area to receive designation under the province's Special Places 2000 program.
In a special ceremony, Environmental Protection Minister Ty Lund announced that the 1,800 acres surrounding the Head-Smashed-In interpretive…
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Members from Headstart Programs across Canada have been selected to go on fact-finding missions to other communities offering the same program.
Of the 80 Headstart programs operating across the nation, and the 22 in Alberta, the Lac La Biche Regional Awasisak and Family Development Circle Association has been selected by Health Canada to swap ideas with the Headstart…
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Alberta social services announced it is funding 18 new community projects across the province to address prevention and education about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Each project will receive $10,000 and is part of the $1 million the ministry has earmarked to deal with FAS.
The condition of FAS is a combination of alcohol related birth defects that show up in a child if a…
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The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology's Aboriginal High-Tech Computer Institute is developing programs to qualify Native people for careers in computers. This new institute is a private school within the auspices of NAIT and will hold programs in both Edmonton and Calgary beginning in January.
The curriculums are on the cutting edge and the first in Alberta, said…