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"It was just like a desert, just gravel. How could they have sent us there when there was nothing."

Seventy-seven-year-old Minnie Allakanallak was questioning the federal government's decision to move Inuit from northern Quebec to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.

Allakanallak and 34 others were in Ottawa last week to testify before the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The commission is holding a special series of hearings into the government's relocation program.

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"It was just like a desert, just gravel. How could they have sent us there when there was nothing."

Seventy-seven-year-old Minnie Allakanallak was questioning the federal government's decision to move Inuit from northern Quebec to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.

Allakanallak and 34 others were in Ottawa last week to testify before the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The commission is holding a special series of hearings into the government's relocation program.

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A first for Prince Albert, a first for Canada, a first for North America. This city, located in north-central Saskatchewan, is gearing up for the first-ever North American Indigenous Games, July 18-25.

The office is quiet now. Telephones are busy but voices are calm and muted. Brochures are neatly lined up on a low table. Aboriginal artifacts are arranged attractively on walls behind glass cases. The atmosphere is purposeful and controlled.

Rich Brant, Games manager, says an estimated 6,000 athletes are expected to participate in 15 sports.

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A first for Prince Albert, a first for Canada, a first for North America. This city, located in north-central Saskatchewan, is gearing up for the first-ever North American Indigenous Games, July 18-25.

The office is quiet now. Telephones are busy but voices are calm and muted. Brochures are neatly lined up on a low table. Aboriginal artifacts are arranged attractively on walls behind glass cases. The atmosphere is purposeful and controlled.

Rich Brant, Games manager, says an estimated 6,000 athletes are expected to participate in 15 sports.

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A first for Prince Albert, a first for Canada, a first for North America. This city, located in north-central Saskatchewan, is gearing up for the first-ever North American Indigenous Games, July 18-25.

The office is quiet now. Telephones are busy but voices are calm and muted. Brochures are neatly lined up on a low table. Aboriginal artifacts are arranged attractively on walls behind glass cases. The atmosphere is purposeful and controlled.

Rich Brant, Games manager, says an estimated 6,000 athletes are expected to participate in 15 sports.

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A first for Prince Albert, a first for Canada, a first for North America. This city, located in north-central Saskatchewan, is gearing up for the first-ever North American Indigenous Games, July 18-25.

The office is quiet now. Telephones are busy but voices are calm and muted. Brochures are neatly lined up on a low table. Aboriginal artifacts are arranged attractively on walls behind glass cases. The atmosphere is purposeful and controlled.

Rich Brant, Games manager, says an estimated 6,000 athletes are expected to participate in 15 sports.

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A first for Prince Albert, a first for Canada, a first for North America. This city, located in north-central Saskatchewan, is gearing up for the first-ever North American Indigenous Games, July 18-25.

The office is quiet now. Telephones are busy but voices are calm and muted. Brochures are neatly lined up on a low table. Aboriginal artifacts are arranged attractively on walls behind glass cases. The atmosphere is purposeful and controlled.

Rich Brant, Games manager, says an estimated 6,000 athletes are expected to participate in 15 sports.

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A first for Prince Albert, a first for Canada, a first for North America. This city, located in north-central Saskatchewan, is gearing up for the first-ever North American Indigenous Games, July 18-25.

The office is quiet now. Telephones are busy but voices are calm and muted. Brochures are neatly lined up on a low table. Aboriginal artifacts are arranged attractively on walls behind glass cases. The atmosphere is purposeful and controlled.

Rich Brant, Games manager, says an estimated 6,000 athletes are expected to participate in 15 sports.

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"If we are willing to stand on what we know and leap off into that unknown abyss and soar like an eagle, where all possibilities occur, we will be able to change this world.

"Because, when you are willing to find the domain of the warrior, in the land of the eagle, then anything is possible."

These are the words of Douglas Cardinal, an Alberta-born internationally renowned architect of the Blackfoot tribe. He began his career in Western Canada and his unique concepts and creativity have produced some truly amazing structures in Canada.

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"If we are willing to stand on what we know and leap off into that unknown abyss and soar like an eagle, where all possibilities occur, we will be able to change this world.

"Because, when you are willing to find the domain of the warrior, in the land of the eagle, then anything is possible."

These are the words of Douglas Cardinal, an Alberta-born internationally renowned architect of the Blackfoot tribe. He began his career in Western Canada and his unique concepts and creativity have produced some truly amazing structures in Canada.