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Review
The Trickster
By Muriel Gray
488 pages, $27 (hc.)
Harper Collins
Whether a Scottish woman who lives in Glasgow is knowledgeable or sensitive enough to write a novel about a Canadian shaman denying his heritage is almost beside the point in The Trickster. Broadcaster Muriel Gray's first novel is first and foremost a thriller and as such it is a compulsive page-turner that keeps readers guessing to the end.
Page 13
Review
The Trickster
By Muriel Gray
488 pages, $27 (hc.)
Harper Collins
Whether a Scottish woman who lives in Glasgow is knowledgeable or sensitive enough to write a novel about a Canadian shaman denying his heritage is almost beside the point in The Trickster. Broadcaster Muriel Gray's first novel is first and foremost a thriller and as such it is a compulsive page-turner that keeps readers guessing to the end.
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Review
Last of the Dogmen
Directed by Tab Murphy
A Savoy Pictures release
It is billed as a contemporary romantic-adventure film. A feisty female anthropologist (Barbara Hershey) and a crusty modern day bounty hunter (Tom Berenger), join forces to search out the lost tribe of the Cheyenne, dog soldiers whose ancestors, more than 100 years earlier, had escaped into the mountainous region of the Oxbow in Montana, the only survivors of the 1864 massacre of Sand Creek.
Page 12
Review
Last of the Dogmen
Directed by Tab Murphy
A Savoy Pictures release
It is billed as a contemporary romantic-adventure film. A feisty female anthropologist (Barbara Hershey) and a crusty modern day bounty hunter (Tom Berenger), join forces to search out the lost tribe of the Cheyenne, dog soldiers whose ancestors, more than 100 years earlier, had escaped into the mountainous region of the Oxbow in Montana, the only survivors of the 1864 massacre of Sand Creek.
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Review
An Evening With Sitting Bull
By Bob Conti Natural Visions/SOAR
A moody 15 track jazz CD from an Albuquerque-based Native American record label features inspired works produced and conceived by percussionist Bob Conti.
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Review
An Evening With Sitting Bull
By Bob Conti Natural Visions/SOAR
A moody 15 track jazz CD from an Albuquerque-based Native American record label features inspired works produced and conceived by percussionist Bob Conti.
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The blues is a style of music not often associated with Native musicians. The Rough 'N Ready Billy Joe Green Band plays against type.
Billy Joe Green is an Ojibway from Shoal Lake, Ont. and Roger Krayshendo, a Manitoban Metis. This Winnipeg-based foursome is comprised of four full-time musicians: Green (guitar/vocals); Krayshendo (bass/vocals); James Walzak (keyboards/vocals); and Rod Demski (drums).
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The blues is a style of music not often associated with Native musicians. The Rough 'N Ready Billy Joe Green Band plays against type.
Billy Joe Green is an Ojibway from Shoal Lake, Ont. and Roger Krayshendo, a Manitoban Metis. This Winnipeg-based foursome is comprised of four full-time musicians: Green (guitar/vocals); Krayshendo (bass/vocals); James Walzak (keyboards/vocals); and Rod Demski (drums).
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When I first read the job description for the position of Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts, Toronto's only professional Native theatre company, I don't remember coming across any paragraph or subsection anywhere on the page requiring me to become the "Oracle of Aboriginal Trivia."
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At the age of 15, Ojibway Elder Alex Skead received a blessing from an elderly Aboriginal woman that was to mark the course of his life.
"I hope that one day you will have white hair like mine," she told him, " and that you will spend your life helping others."