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Camillia Shott is a 16-year-old emerging artist who lives in Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement and attends Caslan School in Caslan.
Recently Sweetgrass had the opportunity to look over a selection of her drawings depicting life up north, and the historical and cultural themes that are dear to her.
Camillia hasn't decided what she wants to do for a career yet, but it is…
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An update on the Soonias brothers who went to the Canada Games this summer and whose athletic prowess was first highlighted here in July:
Sarain and Dallas had a very successful 2001 Canada Summer Games. Sarain, 19, won a bronze medal with Team Alberta basketball. He has now commenced classes in Medicine Hat College where he hopes to prepare for university and a career in…
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An update on the Soonias brothers who went to the Canada Games this summer and whose athletic prowess was first highlighted here in July:
Sarain and Dallas had a very successful 2001 Canada Summer Games. Sarain, 19, won a bronze medal with Team Alberta basketball. He has now commenced classes in Medicine Hat College where he hopes to prepare for university and a career in…
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It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
A private communion with the ancestors and the viewing of sacred bundles unopened for 125 years, a time for tears, reflection and giving of offerings by men, women and children from the Treaty 6 nations in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
It was a solemn occasion, in which the voices of the Elders and Grandfathers were heard once…
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It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
A private communion with the ancestors and the viewing of sacred bundles unopened for 125 years, a time for tears, reflection and giving of offerings by men, women and children from the Treaty 6 nations in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
It was a solemn occasion, in which the voices of the Elders and Grandfathers were heard once…
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Decisions about land use should incorporate local Aboriginal people's traditional knowledge of the land, and their consent must be obtained along with government's before development, according to Allan J. Wolfleg.
Wolfleg, a Blackfoot from the Siksika Nation and a member of the regulatory advisory committee of Environment Canada, presented his views at a lunchtime seminar…
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Decisions about land use should incorporate local Aboriginal people's traditional knowledge of the land, and their consent must be obtained along with government's before development, according to Allan J. Wolfleg.
Wolfleg, a Blackfoot from the Siksika Nation and a member of the regulatory advisory committee of Environment Canada, presented his views at a lunchtime seminar…
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If you go into the woods, make sure Walter Quinn is with you.
Quinn, a long-time trapper, recently unveiled his new Aboriginal cultural camp located at Deeridge Estates, five kilometres southeast of Lac La Biche.
With sponsorship from Alberta Pacific Forest Industries, where Quinn is employed as a trapper co-ordinator, the culture camp offers up a traditional…
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If you go into the woods, make sure Walter Quinn is with you.
Quinn, a long-time trapper, recently unveiled his new Aboriginal cultural camp located at Deeridge Estates, five kilometres southeast of Lac La Biche.
With sponsorship from Alberta Pacific Forest Industries, where Quinn is employed as a trapper co-ordinator, the culture camp offers up a traditional…
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"A humorous song cannot compromise serious songs. They both stand on their own merit," wrote Cathy Sewell in one of her many University of Alberta papers.
It was humor that was centre stage at the University of Alberta's Myer Horowitz Theatre on Sept. 22, as friends and family gathered to publicly celebrate their memories of Sewell.
Sewell (April 5, 1962 to Aug. 23…
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"A humorous song cannot compromise serious songs. They both stand on their own merit," wrote Cathy Sewell in one of her many University of Alberta papers.
It was humor that was centre stage at the University of Alberta's Myer Horowitz Theatre on Sept. 22, as friends and family gathered to publicly celebrate their memories of Sewell.
Sewell (April 5, 1962 to Aug. 23…
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Bingo lovers, if you feel deprived because you live outside AMMSA's CFWE radio signal range and can't play our radio bingo - gather up your daubers, pull up a chair, and sit tight to the phone -now you can play!
Subscribers to Star Choice Channel 852 receive the CFWE signal through their televisions now. No more will you miss radio bingo games because you live outside of…
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Bingo lovers, if you feel deprived because you live outside AMMSA's CFWE radio signal range and can't play our radio bingo - gather up your daubers, pull up a chair, and sit tight to the phone -now you can play!
Subscribers to Star Choice Channel 852 receive the CFWE signal through their televisions now. No more will you miss radio bingo games because you live outside of…
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The second annual diabetes awareness golf scramble at the Paul First Nation reserve is expected to raise $4,000 for diabetes research.
Eighteen four-person teams came out to golf for a good cause despite the cold, windy weather on Sept. 7. Last year, 22 teams raised more than $5,000, said Henry Arcand, one of the organizers.
The money will go to the Three Feathers…
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The second annual diabetes awareness golf scramble at the Paul First Nation reserve is expected to raise $4,000 for diabetes research.
Eighteen four-person teams came out to golf for a good cause despite the cold, windy weather on Sept. 7. Last year, 22 teams raised more than $5,000, said Henry Arcand, one of the organizers.
The money will go to the Three Feathers…