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The recent disintegration of Native culture has left youth reeling without direction in a non-Native world so a Cree teacher at Fort MacKay School is doing his part to help children take pride in their heritage.

"I firmly believe Indian people have lost their identity and the only real way of teaching Native kids is teaching something they can identify with as an Indian person," said Dale Awasis.

"The young look at me and they see the dance and the song, and they say, 'Wow, can we learn the songs, can we learn how to dance?"

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Canada's Native people have always successfully adapted to the changing times, whether it was taming wild horses or using flintlock rifles instead of bow and arrows.

Changes have ranged from subsistence hunting and fishing to farming to the current job and business economics.

Today in the city of Fort McMurray many Native people enjoy high-paying jobs in the oil sands' industry of the area. Many more are training or upgrading their education to become employees of Syncrude Canada Ltd. or Suncor Inc.

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Canada's Native people have always successfully adapted to the changing times, whether it was taming wild horses or using flintlock rifles instead of bow and arrows.

Changes have ranged from subsistence hunting and fishing to farming to the current job and business economics.

Today in the city of Fort McMurray many Native people enjoy high-paying jobs in the oil sands' industry of the area. Many more are training or upgrading their education to become employees of Syncrude Canada Ltd. or Suncor Inc.

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Canada's Native people have always successfully adapted to the changing times, whether it was taming wild horses or using flintlock rifles instead of bow and arrows.

Changes have ranged from subsistence hunting and fishing to farming to the current job and business economics.

Today in the city of Fort McMurray many Native people enjoy high-paying jobs in the oil sands' industry of the area. Many more are training or upgrading their education to become employees of Syncrude Canada Ltd. or Suncor Inc.

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Canada's Native people have always successfully adapted to the changing times, whether it was taming wild horses or using flintlock rifles instead of bow and arrows.

Changes have ranged from subsistence hunting and fishing to farming to the current job and business economics.

Today in the city of Fort McMurray many Native people enjoy high-paying jobs in the oil sands' industry of the area. Many more are training or upgrading their education to become employees of Syncrude Canada Ltd. or Suncor Inc.

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A Native Alcoholics Anonymous group in Fort McMurray will use preventive medicine to help Native people deal with their problems before they turn to drugs and alcohol.

The group was recently started by the Nistawoyou Friendship Center in the northern city. Referral worker Lorraine Albert is helping to get the program off the gowned.

"Too often we wait until something is a problem and then we try and solve it. Why not take care of things before they become a problem?" she said.

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A Native Alcoholics Anonymous group in Fort McMurray will use preventive medicine to help Native people deal with their problems before they turn to drugs and alcohol.

The group was recently started by the Nistawoyou Friendship Center in the northern city. Referral worker Lorraine Albert is helping to get the program off the gowned.

"Too often we wait until something is a problem and then we try and solve it. Why not take care of things before they become a problem?" she said.

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A Native Alcoholics Anonymous group in Fort McMurray will use preventive medicine to help Native people deal with their problems before they turn to drugs and alcohol.

The group was recently started by the Nistawoyou Friendship Center in the northern city. Referral worker Lorraine Albert is helping to get the program off the gowned.

"Too often we wait until something is a problem and then we try and solve it. Why not take care of things before they become a problem?" she said.

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A Native Alcoholics Anonymous group in Fort McMurray will use preventive medicine to help Native people deal with their problems before they turn to drugs and alcohol.

The group was recently started by the Nistawoyou Friendship Center in the northern city. Referral worker Lorraine Albert is helping to get the program off the gowned.

"Too often we wait until something is a problem and then we try and solve it. Why not take care of things before they become a problem?" she said.

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Road trips are always fun, and in a way scary. You see my vehicle is not a trusty, hardy started despite German engineering. My 1976 Volkswagen Rabbit proved itself on this trip though, wrapping the odometer back to 000 on the winter road between the end of Highway 881 and Lac la Biche.