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Tom McCormack draws different traditions together in his tales. He's one of the most accomplished intertribal Native story tellers in the U.S., and he's planning to move to Alberta later this year.

"I like to be giving back and empowering people through these stories," he explains. McCormack incorporates many things into his performance art, which he puts on through libraries and schools, at festivals and even at powwows. He includes talking and singing, sound effects, acting and body movements to tell stories and involve the audiences.

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Tom McCormack draws different traditions together in his tales. He's one of the most accomplished intertribal Native story tellers in the U.S., and he's planning to move to Alberta later this year.

"I like to be giving back and empowering people through these stories," he explains. McCormack incorporates many things into his performance art, which he puts on through libraries and schools, at festivals and even at powwows. He includes talking and singing, sound effects, acting and body movements to tell stories and involve the audiences.

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Guest Column

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Guest Column

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When we wrote in this spot two months ago about the potential for protests, blockades and stand-offs in B.C. this summer, we had in mind peoples and nations driven to civil disobedience over legitimate issues. Recent developments have raised two troubling questions that weren't part of that column. In a strange way, two months ago seems like a more innocent time.

Since then, we've seen the Mohawk flare-up over marijuana, the Micmac conflict over fish and the James ranch clash over . . . what exactly? Each of these is disturbing in ways that, say, Adams Lake was not.

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When we wrote in this spot two months ago about the potential for protests, blockades and stand-offs in B.C. this summer, we had in mind peoples and nations driven to civil disobedience over legitimate issues. Recent developments have raised two troubling questions that weren't part of that column. In a strange way, two months ago seems like a more innocent time.

Since then, we've seen the Mohawk flare-up over marijuana, the Micmac conflict over fish and the James ranch clash over . . . what exactly? Each of these is disturbing in ways that, say, Adams Lake was not.

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An Oregon couple was arraigned Aug. 11 in Benton County Superior Court on charges of disturbing an Indian burial ground along the Columbia River in southern Washington state. Authorities recovered more than 30,000 artifacts from the home of Irrigon, Oregon residents John Joseph Horner Jr., 48, and Leona J. Lightle, 42. A sheriff's department spokesman described the stockpile as a "better collection than most museums would have, outside of the Smithsonian."

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An Oregon couple was arraigned Aug. 11 in Benton County Superior Court on charges of disturbing an Indian burial ground along the Columbia River in southern Washington state. Authorities recovered more than 30,000 artifacts from the home of Irrigon, Oregon residents John Joseph Horner Jr., 48, and Leona J. Lightle, 42. A sheriff's department spokesman described the stockpile as a "better collection than most museums would have, outside of the Smithsonian."

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On Sept. 9, the reign of Miss Indian Nations IV will come full circle as a new princess is chosen. Teresa Snow, a 22-year-old Goodstoney Nakoda Sioux/Yuma Quechan Indian from Morley, Alta., is preparing to pass on the crown and title she's held for the past year.

It's become a memorable year for this young lady who was the first Canadian to ever win the crown.

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On Sept. 9, the reign of Miss Indian Nations IV will come full circle as a new princess is chosen. Teresa Snow, a 22-year-old Goodstoney Nakoda Sioux/Yuma Quechan Indian from Morley, Alta., is preparing to pass on the crown and title she's held for the past year.

It's become a memorable year for this young lady who was the first Canadian to ever win the crown.