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When Karen Kilgour graduated from the Labour College of Canada this year, she had accomplished more than just successfully completing the national school's graduate program. She also became the first -ver Aboriginal person from Saskatchewan to graduate from the program, and the first woman from the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees Union (SGEU) to do so in 40 years.

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With the laughter from a dozen women drowning out the clatter of five sewing machines churning away simultaneously, the scene is reminiscent of a home economics course. But this isn't high school, and these students aren't concerned about grades.

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While First Nations athletes, coaches, chaperones and supporters were too busy with the Saskatchewan First Nation Summer Games during their recent visit to Flying Dust First Nation to do much sightseeing, the area has a number of attractions for those visiting the area on a less hectic schedule.

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The Native tradition of a sacred lance run, rekindled in Saskatchewan in the mid 1990s, was once again part of this year's Saskatchewan First Nation Summer Games.

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The Southeast Treaty 4 squirt boys' softball team had an unusual look at the Saskatchewan First Nation Summer Games.

In fact, you might have said you thought you were seeing double or, more accurately, triple when the team came on the field for the first time.

Nathiel, Trenton, and Brendan Watson are five-year-old triplets and members of the Southeast Treaty 4 team. The trio from Ochapowace First Nation was accompanied to the event by their grandmother, Rita Watcheston.

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First Nations athletes from across the province converged on Flying Dust First Nation from July 6 to 10 to take part in the 2003 Saskatchewan First Nation Summer Games, but in the end it was the team representing the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) that emerged victorious.

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Family, friends, dignitaries and school officials gathered together on June 25 to celebrate with members of Sakewew high school's first ever graduating class.

The night, with its theme of rising to success, was proof to many that First Nations education works.

Special guest speaker Chief Perry Bellegarde of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) said the graduates are dispelling the stereotype of the "dumb, drunken Indian."

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Information about the Metis people is now just a mouse click away, thanks to the Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture. The new Web site was created by the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research, in partnership with the University of Saskatchewan's division of multi-media and technology and Saskatchewan Culture.

The project has received funding from the federal and provincial governments and from the Canada Council for the Arts. The money will cover the cost of five years of operation of the online museum.

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People across Canada will have a chance to view artwork by renowned artist Allen Sapp and to learn about the Northern Cree at the same time, when a travelling exhibit takes to the road in 2005.

The exhibit, Through the Eyes of the Cree, will feature 70 of Sapp's paintings, along with memorabilia, historic photographs and artifacts.

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Lyndon Tootoosis is carving out a future in the art world by looking to the teachings of the past.

"I'm interpreting our legends and stories and traditional values in rock," said the 39-year-old artist. "I do a lot of emphasis with the grandmothers because we were a matriarchal society."

His approach seems to work. Tootoosis just received a selected participant nod from the Saskatchewan Craft Council's annual Dimensions juried competition for his carving called Grandmother Watches.