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The house is white, clean, somewhat dilapidated, but the interior is comfortable. Book racks are filled with classics such as J.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, bound in a beautifully aged cover. It is a book Ethel Blondin-Andrew used to read to her three kids. She still has the last page marked where she read to her children. The youngest in now 19. They have left the nest, working or attending university.

It is a European image.

Two caribou legs, cut at the knee joints, sit on the counter top.

It is a Dene image.

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The drums are beating once again on this Micmac reserve, signaling a healing process for a people besieged by tragedy.

Following a week of mourning for the suicide deaths of seven reserve teenagers, more than 100 youths gathered to drum, chant and dance in a celebration of life.

"All during the week, everybody was taking part of the discussion. But when it was over, many people came to me and said they felt empty," said Pauline Socks, celebration organizer.

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The drums are beating once again on this Micmac reserve, signaling a healing process for a people besieged by tragedy.

Following a week of mourning for the suicide deaths of seven reserve teenagers, more than 100 youths gathered to drum, chant and dance in a celebration of life.

"All during the week, everybody was taking part of the discussion. But when it was over, many people came to me and said they felt empty," said Pauline Socks, celebration organizer.

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The drums are beating once again on this Micmac reserve, signaling a healing process for a people besieged by tragedy.

Following a week of mourning for the suicide deaths of seven reserve teenagers, more than 100 youths gathered to drum, chant and dance in a celebration of life.

"All during the week, everybody was taking part of the discussion. But when it was over, many people came to me and said they felt empty," said Pauline Socks, celebration organizer.

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The drums are beating once again on this Micmac reserve, signaling a healing process for a people besieged by tragedy.

Following a week of mourning for the suicide deaths of seven reserve teenagers, more than 100 youths gathered to drum, chant and dance in a celebration of life.

"All during the week, everybody was taking part of the discussion. But when it was over, many people came to me and said they felt empty," said Pauline Socks, celebration organizer.

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The drums are beating once again on this Micmac reserve, signaling a healing process for a people besieged by tragedy.

Following a week of mourning for the suicide deaths of seven reserve teenagers, more than 100 youths gathered to drum, chant and dance in a celebration of life.

"All during the week, everybody was taking part of the discussion. But when it was over, many people came to me and said they felt empty," said Pauline Socks, celebration organizer.

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The drums are beating once again on this Micmac reserve, signaling a healing process for a people besieged by tragedy.

Following a week of mourning for the suicide deaths of seven reserve teenagers, more than 100 youths gathered to drum, chant and dance in a celebration of life.

"All during the week, everybody was taking part of the discussion. But when it was over, many people came to me and said they felt empty," said Pauline Socks, celebration organizer.

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Two bands in northeastern British Columbia who lost a land claim appeal will take their case to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Doig River and Blueberry River bands of the Peace River district in B.C. will appeal the Federal Court of Appeal's Feb. 9 decision denying their right to sue Ottawa, the bands lawyer Thomas Berger said.

In the 2-1 decision, the court ruled that the bands did not have the right to sue Ottawa over the loss of their reserve in 1945 because the province's 30-year limitation on legal action had expired, Berger said.

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Two bands in northeastern British Columbia who lost a land claim appeal will take their case to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Doig River and Blueberry River bands of the Peace River district in B.C. will appeal the Federal Court of Appeal's Feb. 9 decision denying their right to sue Ottawa, the bands lawyer Thomas Berger said.

In the 2-1 decision, the court ruled that the bands did not have the right to sue Ottawa over the loss of their reserve in 1945 because the province's 30-year limitation on legal action had expired, Berger said.

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Two bands in northeastern British Columbia who lost a land claim appeal will take their case to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Doig River and Blueberry River bands of the Peace River district in B.C. will appeal the Federal Court of Appeal's Feb. 9 decision denying their right to sue Ottawa, the bands lawyer Thomas Berger said.

In the 2-1 decision, the court ruled that the bands did not have the right to sue Ottawa over the loss of their reserve in 1945 because the province's 30-year limitation on legal action had expired, Berger said.