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Aboriginals from across Canada gathered in the nation's capital in a show of unity to promote Native rights.

The four-day gathering had four aims: to mark 1993 as the International Year of the Indigenous People; celebrate Natives' survival as distinct people; share Native culture among Natives and non-Natives and to demonstrate unity in the fact of government policies that identify Native identity and rights.

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I'll be honest with you. White people amaze me. They really do. And there are not too many things in this big old world that I can safely say really amaze me. Having grown up on an Indian reserve for the first 18 years of my life, I was introduced, at the tender age of seven, to the wonderful and colorful (no pun intended) world of Caucasians when we got our first television.

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I'll be honest with you. White people amaze me. They really do. And there are not too many things in this big old world that I can safely say really amaze me. Having grown up on an Indian reserve for the first 18 years of my life, I was introduced, at the tender age of seven, to the wonderful and colorful (no pun intended) world of Caucasians when we got our first television.

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I'll be honest with you. White people amaze me. They really do. And there are not too many things in this big old world that I can safely say really amaze me. Having grown up on an Indian reserve for the first 18 years of my life, I was introduced, at the tender age of seven, to the wonderful and colorful (no pun intended) world of Caucasians when we got our first television.

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I'll be honest with you. White people amaze me. They really do. And there are not too many things in this big old world that I can safely say really amaze me. Having grown up on an Indian reserve for the first 18 years of my life, I was introduced, at the tender age of seven, to the wonderful and colorful (no pun intended) world of Caucasians when we got our first television.

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Tansi, ahnee and hello. There's a color in the sky that's my favorite. It happens right before dawn and sunset perched at the edge of light and darkness. It's the deepest blue I've ever seen and it's come to represent my sense of wonder at the universe and the unfolding of this life I've been given.

For years now I've sat and stared at the evening sky and pondered this color and the feeling it stirs in me. There's only been one word in all that time that even comes close to describing this blue. Eternal. It's an eternal blue.

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Tansi, ahnee and hello. There's a color in the sky that's my favorite. It happens right before dawn and sunset perched at the edge of light and darkness. It's the deepest blue I've ever seen and it's come to represent my sense of wonder at the universe and the unfolding of this life I've been given.

For years now I've sat and stared at the evening sky and pondered this color and the feeling it stirs in me. There's only been one word in all that time that even comes close to describing this blue. Eternal. It's an eternal blue.

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Tansi, ahnee and hello. There's a color in the sky that's my favorite. It happens right before dawn and sunset perched at the edge of light and darkness. It's the deepest blue I've ever seen and it's come to represent my sense of wonder at the universe and the unfolding of this life I've been given.

For years now I've sat and stared at the evening sky and pondered this color and the feeling it stirs in me. There's only been one word in all that time that even comes close to describing this blue. Eternal. It's an eternal blue.

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Tansi, ahnee and hello. There's a color in the sky that's my favorite. It happens right before dawn and sunset perched at the edge of light and darkness. It's the deepest blue I've ever seen and it's come to represent my sense of wonder at the universe and the unfolding of this life I've been given.

For years now I've sat and stared at the evening sky and pondered this color and the feeling it stirs in me. There's only been one word in all that time that even comes close to describing this blue. Eternal. It's an eternal blue.

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Time warps belong in science fiction movies and Ray Bradbury illusion of futuristic realities, not on the reserves across Canada.

As an urban Native, I felt as if I had travelled back a hundred years when a friend and I recently visited a local reserve. I was immediately reminded of my fortune, not only as a Native but as a human being.