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Native art should be allowed to develop along more ways than those established by traditions, says a Comanche writer.

Paul Chaat Smith was a participant in a cross-border forum on Native art and Culture, held in Thunder Bay April 23 and 24. In an interview he discussed the different paths Native art is evolving and how important it is to allow that progression to happen.

"What a lot of people want to do is keep us in a museum, saying this is what Native art must look like. The ethnological approach is a real obstacle to advancing art," Smith said.

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Aboriginal farmers may be harvesting only dreams this year as the Manitoba Indian Agriculture Development Corporation hits financial bottom.

Until MIADC clears its debts, the Aboriginal Capital Corporation, and the Department of Indian Affairs will withhold funding that goes toward providing operating loans to more than 150 grain, cattle, and wild rice farmers in the province.

A series of investments gone sour left the loans company without funds for its clients, who have since withdrawn their support for the board.

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Aboriginal farmers may be harvesting only dreams this year as the Manitoba Indian Agriculture Development Corporation hits financial bottom.

Until MIADC clears its debts, the Aboriginal Capital Corporation, and the Department of Indian Affairs will withhold funding that goes toward providing operating loans to more than 150 grain, cattle, and wild rice farmers in the province.

A series of investments gone sour left the loans company without funds for its clients, who have since withdrawn their support for the board.

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Aboriginal farmers may be harvesting only dreams this year as the Manitoba Indian Agriculture Development Corporation hits financial bottom.

Until MIADC clears its debts, the Aboriginal Capital Corporation, and the Department of Indian Affairs will withhold funding that goes toward providing operating loans to more than 150 grain, cattle, and wild rice farmers in the province.

A series of investments gone sour left the loans company without funds for its clients, who have since withdrawn their support for the board.

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Aboriginal farmers may be harvesting only dreams this year as the Manitoba Indian Agriculture Development Corporation hits financial bottom.

Until MIADC clears its debts, the Aboriginal Capital Corporation, and the Department of Indian Affairs will withhold funding that goes toward providing operating loans to more than 150 grain, cattle, and wild rice farmers in the province.

A series of investments gone sour left the loans company without funds for its clients, who have since withdrawn their support for the board.

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The west coast shore will be churning with paddles this summer as canoeists journey to Bella Bella, B.C. in celebration of the Year of World Indigenous Peoples.

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The west coast shore will be churning with paddles this summer as canoeists journey to Bella Bella, B.C. in celebration of the Year of World Indigenous Peoples.

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The west coast shore will be churning with paddles this summer as canoeists journey to Bella Bella, B.C. in celebration of the Year of World Indigenous Peoples.

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The west coast shore will be churning with paddles this summer as canoeists journey to Bella Bella, B.C. in celebration of the Year of World Indigenous Peoples.

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Is U.S. President Bill Clinton coming to northern B.C. - perhaps even to Burns Lake? He will - if Carrier Sekani Tribal Chief Justa Monk has his way.