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The heart beat of the drums tell a story southern Albertans are beginning to listen to more closely, says the co-ordinator of Calgary's Native Awareness Week.

Robert Laboucane says the cultural gap is shrinking and this year the Native awareness week society is focusing attention on children.

Cultural appreciation starts at a young age, Laboucane says, so there's no better way to remote equality than to begin at the beginning - with children.

The second annual city-wide event from May 12-19 will have as its theme Youth and Education.

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When the great Mackenzie Highway was laid more than 40 years ago, linking Alberta's far northwest regions with the rest of the world, Native people found themselves at a crossroads of cultural change.

Traditional Native lifestyle was a mystery to trapper, hunters and pioneers out to play their part in their newly-adopted society. And by the end of the Second World War, the small 70-member settlement of Canadian frontiersmen, grew into what is now known as High Level, Alberta's most northerly town.

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When the great Mackenzie Highway was laid more than 40 years ago, linking Alberta's far northwest regions with the rest of the world, Native people found themselves at a crossroads of cultural change.

Traditional Native lifestyle was a mystery to trapper, hunters and pioneers out to play their part in their newly-adopted society. And by the end of the Second World War, the small 70-member settlement of Canadian frontiersmen, grew into what is now known as High Level, Alberta's most northerly town.

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When the great Mackenzie Highway was laid more than 40 years ago, linking Alberta's far northwest regions with the rest of the world, Native people found themselves at a crossroads of cultural change.

Traditional Native lifestyle was a mystery to trapper, hunters and pioneers out to play their part in their newly-adopted society. And by the end of the Second World War, the small 70-member settlement of Canadian frontiersmen, grew into what is now known as High Level, Alberta's most northerly town.

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When the great Mackenzie Highway was laid more than 40 years ago, linking Alberta's far northwest regions with the rest of the world, Native people found themselves at a crossroads of cultural change.

Traditional Native lifestyle was a mystery to trapper, hunters and pioneers out to play their part in their newly-adopted society. And by the end of the Second World War, the small 70-member settlement of Canadian frontiersmen, grew into what is now known as High Level, Alberta's most northerly town.

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Youth worker Robert Metchooyeah isn't much older than the people who used to come to his recreation center - the only one at Assumption reserve in northern Alberta geared toward Dene Tha' youth. But he said he's old enough to know the importance of having a place to go to keep out of trouble.

The only problem is that place no longer exists.

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Youth worker Robert Metchooyeah isn't much older than the people who used to come to his recreation center - the only one at Assumption reserve in northern Alberta geared toward Dene Tha' youth. But he said he's old enough to know the importance of having a place to go to keep out of trouble.

The only problem is that place no longer exists.

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Youth worker Robert Metchooyeah isn't much older than the people who used to come to his recreation center - the only one at Assumption reserve in northern Alberta geared toward Dene Tha' youth. But he said he's old enough to know the importance of having a place to go to keep out of trouble.

The only problem is that place no longer exists.

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Youth worker Robert Metchooyeah isn't much older than the people who used to come to his recreation center - the only one at Assumption reserve in northern Alberta geared toward Dene Tha' youth. But he said he's old enough to know the importance of having a place to go to keep out of trouble.

The only problem is that place no longer exists.

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Raymond Carifelle has always been sportsminded. In fact it's his first love in life -- after his family and wife Darlene.

Carifelle remembers he was always playing ball down at the park on weekends and sometimes after work when he lived at Grande Prairie.

After working in the northern city six years, Carifelle, a member of Peavine Metis Settlement, returned home. His first chore was to get people involved with baseball, "because we had no team," he said.