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Children in Saskatchewan schools in Grade 7 up to Grade 12 are learning about an important part of their history. The Office of the Treaty Commissioner (OTC) and their partners have developed curriculum, material and resources to study treaties and the treaty relationship.

These units feature the treaty-making process and the events leading up to it, as well as the impact of treaties on the people of Canada.

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Deborah Pelletier has a busy, exciting time ahead of her. She became the first person to be named as co-ordinator of Aboriginal resources and services at the National Library of Canada on Oct. 4. The new position is designed to develop and promote the library's collection, and to encourage more people, communities and organizations to access the library's resources, especially the Aboriginal resources.

If you are going into the music business you had better learn the lexicon. Here are a few examples:

CanCon-It is not what you think! Canadian law requires at least 30 per cent of the music that AM and FM radio stations broadcast to be by Canadian artists. The CBC is required to air 50 per cent, and 10 per cent by all other special format radio.

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The Canadian and Saskatchewan governments are each putting $10 million over five years into a fund aimed at strengthening and diversifying the northern Saskatchewan economy.

The Canada-Saskatchewan Northern Development Agreement will provide opportunities for northerners to improve infrastructure, training and education, and increase research and business investment.

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While most of the focus on addressing addictions problems in Aboriginal communities has been on alcohol and street drug use, there is another type of drug addiction that hasn't received as much attention-addiction to prescription medication.

Page 19 For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son By Richard Wagamese Doubleday Canada 228 pages (hc) $32.95 Novelist and former Windspeaker columnist Richard Wagamese was born Ojibway, but only recently became a "real Indian." "A real Indian is a person who lives by their feelings," Wagamese writes in his new book, For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son (published by Doubleday Canada).

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The Good Path:

Ojibwe learning and activity book for kids

By Thomas Peacock and Marlene Wisuri

Afton Historical Society Press

127 pages (sc)

$17.95 (US)

The book The Good Path is many things: It is an introduction to the history, culture, and oral storytelling of the Ojibwe people. It teaches the nine values of the Ojibwe. And it is a tool to get young people to go beyond simply reading the words on a page; to get them to think about, and apply what is written in the book to the world.

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Angelique: Buffalo Hunt

By Cora Taylor

Penguin Books

85 pages (sc)

$7.99

Angelique Dumas, 10, lives with her family near Batoche in northern Saskatchewan.

When we meet her in the spring of 1865 she has joined the family in the twice-yearly buffalo hunt. This year she will be playing an active part.

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As Long as the Rivers Flow

By Larry Loyie

with Constance Brissenden

Illustrated by

Heather D. Holmlund

A Groundwood Book-Douglas & McIntyre

36 pages (sc)

$18.95

As Long as the Rivers Flow is a poignant story of a 'golden Indian summer' in 1944 and how good it was to be a young Cree boy living a traditional life with his family on Slave Lake in northern Alberta.

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Ancestral Portraits

The Color of My People

By Frederick R. McDonald

University of Calgary Press

105 pages, 61 color reproductions (sc)

$29.95

This first book by Alberta Cree artist and writer Frederick R. McDonald is a multi-layered offering that weaves together the artist's life, travels, and personal reflections in prose, poetry and painting.