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You'll get more than just a good night's sleep when you stay at the Bear's Inn located in the heart of Six Nations of the Grand River territory. Lisa Johnson and her husband Tim welcome you into their family during your stay and if you're in the market for a history lesson, just ask.

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The drummers and dancers of the Abegweit First Nation on Lennox Island are hard at work practicing for their third annual powwow scheduled for Aug. 22 to 24.

"It's getting bigger every year," said Christine Bernard, one of the organizers of the Prince Edward Island event.

"Last year we had people from all over the Maritime provinces, and this year we've already had responses and enquiries from the U.S.A. and many locations in the rest of Canada," she said.

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Nestled in the wilderness near the Ontario border at the town of Amos, Que., the people of the Pikogan First Nation (Abitibiwinni) welcome tourists to share for a time in the beauty of the unspoiled traditional lands of their ancestors.

Tourists flock there to camp, canoe and commune with nature the way the Algonquin people did in days gone by.

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When most of us think of Native American art, works created from glass aren't usually what first comes to mind. But a visit to an exhibit being hosted by the Heard Museum in Phoenix this summer could change that.

Fusing Traditions: Transformations in Glass By Native American Artists opened at the museum in April, and runs until the end of August. The exhibit features the work of 18 Native artists from across North America, some of whom have been working in the medium as early as the 1960s and 1970s.

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In the early 1870s, Batoche was a new community, settled by Metis families who left the Red River settlement in Manitoba after federal government policies took away their lands and rights there.

By the mid-1880s, the same problems with government began for them again in their new home, with government surveyors sent into the area to open the land to European settlement.

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Before the Second World War, Newcastle Island was one of the great tourist destinations of Vancouver Island. The Snuneymuxw First Nation believes it can be again.

Newcastle Island became a provincial marine park in 1961, when the nearby city of Nanaimo granted it to the province after having acquired the island from the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1955. The Snuneymuxw have been managing Newcastle Island for four years, and claim it as traditional territory in treaty negotiations.

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For three days this July, a small community will spring up in Rotary Peace Park along the banks of the Yukon River, made up of storytellers from around the world and those gathered to hear their tales.

This is the sixteenth year the Yukon International Storytelling Festival has been held in Whitehorse. This year's festival will be held from July 4 to 6, and will feature performers from New Zealand, Sweden and the United States, as well as storytellers from across Canada and a number of local performers.

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He found his first artifact by accident when he was just 10 years old. Today, the fire that was sparked a half-century ago by that find still burns hot in the heart of Bud Cheff, Jr., whose passion for collecting can be seen in the variety and scope of artifacts on display at the Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana.

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Since the first dynamite blast on Thunderhead Mountain in June 1948, millions of people have come to watch the progress of what will be the world's largest mountain carving-the Crazy Horse Memorial. It will make the U.S. presidents' faces carved on the side of Mount Rushmore, 17 miles away, look small in comparison.

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Gerald Okanee is a young man with a powerful voice. He has been a guest singer with renowned drum groups Noon Express, Mandaree, High Noon and Red Bull. He is currently lead singer of Saskatchewan's Big Bear Singers.

In contrast to his big voice at the drum, Okanee is soft-spoken and unassuming in everyday life and is known on his home reserve of Thunderchild First Nation as oskapiw, the Plains Cree word that means worthy young man.