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A Blue Heron stands quietly at a lake's edge, waiting by the reeds as an on-coming storm makes its ways across the water. The vision is so real, a viewer can almost smell the dampness and feel the warm breeze coming off the lake while looking at artist Linda Kinnard's painting.

Kinnard strives for perfection in her art. But not of a photo-perfect type.

"It's not that I want to do exact pictures. I'm exploring different expressions, something I saw in a situation," says the petite Native artist.

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The Siksika Nation senior men's basketball team continues to dominate in the south country, outclassing all opposition at the 16th annual Oki Tournament.

Siksika took the tournament in convincing fashion winning five straight games at the Peigan Community Hall to capture the championship trophy, plus $1,050 in cash and hooded windbreakers.

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The Siksika Nation senior men's basketball team continues to dominate in the south country, outclassing all opposition at the 16th annual Oki Tournament.

Siksika took the tournament in convincing fashion winning five straight games at the Peigan Community Hall to capture the championship trophy, plus $1,050 in cash and hooded windbreakers.

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The Siksika Nation senior men's basketball team continues to dominate in the south country, outclassing all opposition at the 16th annual Oki Tournament.

Siksika took the tournament in convincing fashion winning five straight games at the Peigan Community Hall to capture the championship trophy, plus $1,050 in cash and hooded windbreakers.

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The Siksika Nation senior men's basketball team continues to dominate in the south country, outclassing all opposition at the 16th annual Oki Tournament.

Siksika took the tournament in convincing fashion winning five straight games at the Peigan Community Hall to capture the championship trophy, plus $1,050 in cash and hooded windbreakers.

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The native sorts movement is gaining ground in Alberta and is destined someday to parallel mainstream amateur athletics, predicts the newly elected President of the First Nations Indigenous Sports Council in Edmonton

Cara Currie said Native youth are being given the opportunity to use their sports skills at this summer's Indigenous Games in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - and their communities are backing them up.

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The native sorts movement is gaining ground in Alberta and is destined someday to parallel mainstream amateur athletics, predicts the newly elected President of the First Nations Indigenous Sports Council in Edmonton

Cara Currie said Native youth are being given the opportunity to use their sports skills at this summer's Indigenous Games in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - and their communities are backing them up.

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The native sorts movement is gaining ground in Alberta and is destined someday to parallel mainstream amateur athletics, predicts the newly elected President of the First Nations Indigenous Sports Council in Edmonton

Cara Currie said Native youth are being given the opportunity to use their sports skills at this summer's Indigenous Games in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - and their communities are backing them up.

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The native sorts movement is gaining ground in Alberta and is destined someday to parallel mainstream amateur athletics, predicts the newly elected President of the First Nations Indigenous Sports Council in Edmonton

Cara Currie said Native youth are being given the opportunity to use their sports skills at this summer's Indigenous Games in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - and their communities are backing them up.

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West coast fashion took off on a raven's wing during Canada's first national Aboriginal fashion show.

Two British Columbia designers took the top awards at Winds of Change, a fashion show and competition organized by the Canadian Council for Native Business. Dorothy Grant, of Surrey, B.C. took the best professional designer award, while Edith Newman of Sooke, B.C., won best new designer during the March event, held in Toronto.