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There was a time when non-Aboriginal companies did business with Aboriginal firms just to meet government-imposed quotas, or out of some sense of social responsibility.

Nowadays, more and more companies are doing it because it just makes good business sense. And all you have to do is look at the latest census data to see why.

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ROBERTA JAMIESON was raised on the Six Nations territory with her seven brothers and sisters. Her interest in politics was sparked while a student studying medicine at McGill University in the early 1970s. She joined the movement against the James Bay hydroelectric dam being built without the consent of the James Bay Cree, and in 1974 had the opportunity to debate a land claims issue with then-minister of Indian Affairs Jean Chretien.

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From the very beginning, even before it was called the Assembly of First Nations, the organization that represents status Indians and treaty nations in dealings with the Canadian government has been on a mission-to enhance the position of the First Nations people in Canada and help them claim their rightful place in this country's future.

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She cried for her ancestors, who have been disturbed after 350 years, but Michele Bedard hardened her resolve to stay by a recently discovered burial pit.

"We are the eyes and ears of those who cannot be here,'' Bedard, a member of the Indigenous Site Preservation Committee, said June 2, four days after the First Nations burial pit was discovered by a backhoe operator during the construction of a new $6-million arena in Midland.

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Buffalo Spirit

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Windspeaker's Paul Barnsley was one of three journalists sent on a two-week tour of the South Pacific by the Victoria-based Pacific Peoples Partnership (PPP). The non-governmental organization seeks to raise awareness of social and political issues in a part of the world that is not seen as a high-priority area in Canada for international aid. The other reporters were Nelson Bird, host of CTV Regina's Indigenous Circle, and Tania Willard, editor of the Vancouver Native youth magazine Redwire.

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What would your chess set look like?

If someone asked you to design and create the checked board and its 32 pieces, what materials would you choose? What story might you tell?

Many Quebec Native artists assigned the task to create a chess set by Montreal's First People's Festival chose to remember.

They fashioned kings, queens, bishops and the other well-known pieces of the universal game to tell stories of their people's beginnings and struggles. In making the figures and the boards, some walked the path to a traditional way of life.

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The Big River First Nation celebrates Diabetes National Awareness Week in May, but the community's dedication to fitness doesn't end with one week of activities. For the past year, the 1,700 residents who live on the reserve, located approximately 120 kilometres from Prince Albert, have been enjoying a friendly competition with one another to accumulate kilometres of walking for fitness.

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Did all those people in the World Trade Centre really die? Or did some just walk away from miserable lives and start again...

Ten Little Indians

By Sherman Alexie

Grove Press

244 pages, $39.95 (hc)

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Once every generation, Canadian lawmakers tackle matters of great importance affecting Indigenous people in Canada. We in Nunavik have had our share of such events, most notable for the fact that we had no say whatsoever in the most important ones.

The 1912 Quebec Boundaries Extension Acts transferred our ancestral lands to the Province of Quebec. The Supreme Court decision of 1939 In Re: Eskimo determined that Inuit of Quebec were 'Indians' for the purposes of law.