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"A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step," says an ancient Asian proverb, which applies quite well to the 25 Native people taking part in a federally-funded training program at Hobbema.

Most of the people taking part in the eight-month-long clerk-typist upgrading program funded by the Canada employment and immigration commission are single mothers and people who want to enter work force or to continue their education at Maskwachees Cultural College, said director Brenda Scott.

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"A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step," says an ancient Asian proverb, which applies quite well to the 25 Native people taking part in a federally-funded training program at Hobbema.

Most of the people taking part in the eight-month-long clerk-typist upgrading program funded by the Canada employment and immigration commission are single mothers and people who want to enter work force or to continue their education at Maskwachees Cultural College, said director Brenda Scott.

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"A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step," says an ancient Asian proverb, which applies quite well to the 25 Native people taking part in a federally-funded training program at Hobbema.

Most of the people taking part in the eight-month-long clerk-typist upgrading program funded by the Canada employment and immigration commission are single mothers and people who want to enter work force or to continue their education at Maskwachees Cultural College, said director Brenda Scott.

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"A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step," says an ancient Asian proverb, which applies quite well to the 25 Native people taking part in a federally-funded training program at Hobbema.

Most of the people taking part in the eight-month-long clerk-typist upgrading program funded by the Canada employment and immigration commission are single mothers and people who want to enter work force or to continue their education at Maskwachees Cultural College, said director Brenda Scott.

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After hearing two local high school students debate the validity of a mega-forestry project in northern Alberta, based in information gathered from a Native newspaper found in the school library. Bonnyville area school superintendent Ed Nicholson knew he had to do something.

He wrote a letter to Finance Minister Michael Wilson asking him to change his mind about slashing funds to Native communications across the country.

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Maskwachees Cultural College is a tool to help Native people from the four bands at Hobbema handle their own affairs more efficiently. The students are the future resources for Ermineskin, Louis Bull, Montana and Samson bands.

So the students are developed into highly efficient thinking and studying machines, said director Fred Carnew. The failure rate is almost "nil", a miraculous number compared to the Canadian average of 30 per cent, he said.

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Maskwachees Cultural College is a tool to help Native people from the four bands at Hobbema handle their own affairs more efficiently. The students are the future resources for Ermineskin, Louis Bull, Montana and Samson bands.

So the students are developed into highly efficient thinking and studying machines, said director Fred Carnew. The failure rate is almost "nil", a miraculous number compared to the Canadian average of 30 per cent, he said.

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Maskwachees Cultural College is a tool to help Native people from the four bands at Hobbema handle their own affairs more efficiently. The students are the future resources for Ermineskin, Louis Bull, Montana and Samson bands.

So the students are developed into highly efficient thinking and studying machines, said director Fred Carnew. The failure rate is almost "nil", a miraculous number compared to the Canadian average of 30 per cent, he said.

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Maskwachees Cultural College is a tool to help Native people from the four bands at Hobbema handle their own affairs more efficiently. The students are the future resources for Ermineskin, Louis Bull, Montana and Samson bands.

So the students are developed into highly efficient thinking and studying machines, said director Fred Carnew. The failure rate is almost "nil", a miraculous number compared to the Canadian average of 30 per cent, he said.

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With each stroke of his brush or mark from his pen, Native artist Roy Salopree captures a piece of nature he wished Canadian society could appreciate as much as he does.

For 21 years, the Meander River Indian has been preserving the environment the best way he knows how -- by putting it on paper.

But he wants his creative art to mean more to mainstream art lovers than just another Native wall hanging for their dens. He wants them to understand how important it is for natural beauty to remain intact.