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Sam Bob never really intended to be an actor. In fact, the Vancouver Native had been working toward his degree on criminology at Simon Fraser University when his sister dragged him to audit for a summer theatre project. That was five years ago, and he hasn't looked back since.

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The time for Native film actors has been a long time coming. But during the last three or four years movie goers may have noticed a much greater number of Native actors and roles finding their way onto the big screen.

Beginning with movies like Dances With Wolves and Thunderheart, opportunities for Native actors in mainstream Hollywood productions have never been better.

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In his third year of junior football, Richard Sansregret injured his back so badly that he quit football, and all athletics, for good. Four years later, though, the 5'9" Metis man, now 24, decided that he wanted to take up sports again. He started playing indoor soccer, and he's now looking forward to becoming one of Canada's top officials over the next few years.

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When Angela Chalmers was a little girl, her great uncle had a dream while working in the fields one day.

The dream was about a woman and a storm and the words walk fast, walk fast. And it so it was that when Chalmers began showing potential as a young runner she was named Dusnanwe at a special ceremony. The name means woman who walks fast.

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The Indian Rodeo Cowboy Association, the longest running association of its kind in Canada, will be hosting its year-end 1994 Finals Rodeo here at the Agriplex, Oct. 7, 8. 9.

The three-day rodeo will feature the top 10 contestants in the final standings in all major events, including saddle bronc, bareback and bull riding. The timed events are calf roping, steer wrestling, and team toping, plus the ladies barrel racing.

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What makes Peigan a special place is my attachment to past experiences with my family, relatives and friends.

It is the place where my grandparents and parents live. I remember my older brother and I walking with Grandma in the spring to pick duck eggs. My grandmother cooked them for us with the ducklings starting to form which we thought was wonderful.

I remember one of my uncles holding me so I could suck a mare and grandma being hysterical that I would be killed. My uncles thought it was the funniest thing.

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A 20-year-old provincial program salvaging deer and moose hides for artisans has gained new momentum in Ontario.

Hats for Hides collects hides for use by artisans through an exchange program with Native and non-Native hunters. Formerly run by the Ministry of National Resources, the program had experienced a slump in interest, dropping from 40,000 hides being taken in to provincial depots during the mid-1980s, to approximately 20,000 in 1993.

But interest is picking up since the Union of Ontario Indians took over co-ordinating the program.

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Treaty Day Celebrations took a serious turn in Halifax when the head of the Union of Nova Scotia Indians accused non-Natives of abusing nature.

Alex Denny told Nova Scotia Premier John Savage and other MLAs at the provincial legislature that over-use by non-Natives have depleted fish stocks and harmed forests.

The controversial leader also said that non-Natives have become weak and are too dependent on welfare.

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Mi'kmaq people came from all across the Atlantic region to renew their 384-year alliance with the Roman Catholic Church during annual Treaty Day celebrations this month.

"When I hear the comment that Christ was shoved down our throats, I get very irate," Murdena Marshall, an Eskasoni resident, told at least 200 Mi'kmaq people gathered for a morning mass held at St. Mary's Basilica in Halifax.

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What to do when, through no fault or intention of your own, practically everybody considers you an expert? And even if you aren't - which I'm not - they don't listen to you. If you decline this flattering but inaccurate assessment: 1) you're just being modest, which seems to make things even worse because it makes them want your opinion even more;

2) they conclude you're ducking the question, or favor, or work that requires your supposed expertise, thus pissing them off.