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Self-government was not first on the agenda at last week's annual meetings of the chiefs of the Assembly of First Nations.

Poverty, health care and education superseded Native political sovereignty as important issues, said Tsuu Tina Chief Roy Whitney.

"People want to make sure they have bread and butter on the table, they have a job, their children have clothing," he said. "To me, those are more pressing issues. Self-government is meaningless unless the rest of it is able to take place."

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While other kids in grade school were busy playing games and finding new friends, Ruth Cuthand remembers her frequent visits with her father (Stan Cuthand) to the house of Gerald Tailfeathers. Here was her first introduction to the world of art.

"I would sit at a chair in Gerald's studio and I was just fascinated with the movement of the paint brush and the paint on the canvas. I thought that being a painter was a wonderful way to live and I was greatly influenced by Gerald Tailfeathers."

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While other kids in grade school were busy playing games and finding new friends, Ruth Cuthand remembers her frequent visits with her father (Stan Cuthand) to the house of Gerald Tailfeathers. Here was her first introduction to the world of art.

"I would sit at a chair in Gerald's studio and I was just fascinated with the movement of the paint brush and the paint on the canvas. I thought that being a painter was a wonderful way to live and I was greatly influenced by Gerald Tailfeathers."

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While other kids in grade school were busy playing games and finding new friends, Ruth Cuthand remembers her frequent visits with her father (Stan Cuthand) to the house of Gerald Tailfeathers. Here was her first introduction to the world of art.

"I would sit at a chair in Gerald's studio and I was just fascinated with the movement of the paint brush and the paint on the canvas. I thought that being a painter was a wonderful way to live and I was greatly influenced by Gerald Tailfeathers."

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While other kids in grade school were busy playing games and finding new friends, Ruth Cuthand remembers her frequent visits with her father (Stan Cuthand) to the house of Gerald Tailfeathers. Here was her first introduction to the world of art.

"I would sit at a chair in Gerald's studio and I was just fascinated with the movement of the paint brush and the paint on the canvas. I thought that being a painter was a wonderful way to live and I was greatly influenced by Gerald Tailfeathers."

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The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has worked out a set of recommendations for economic development which could help Native communities become self-sufficient and self-governing.

"It is obvious that we need immediate change and progress to allow Aboriginal Canadians to reclaim their pride, heritage and self-determining status," said Patrick Lavelle, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CCAB.

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The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has worked out a set of recommendations for economic development which could help Native communities become self-sufficient and self-governing.

"It is obvious that we need immediate change and progress to allow Aboriginal Canadians to reclaim their pride, heritage and self-determining status," said Patrick Lavelle, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CCAB.

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The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has worked out a set of recommendations for economic development which could help Native communities become self-sufficient and self-governing.

"It is obvious that we need immediate change and progress to allow Aboriginal Canadians to reclaim their pride, heritage and self-determining status," said Patrick Lavelle, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CCAB.

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The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has worked out a set of recommendations for economic development which could help Native communities become self-sufficient and self-governing.

"It is obvious that we need immediate change and progress to allow Aboriginal Canadians to reclaim their pride, heritage and self-determining status," said Patrick Lavelle, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CCAB.

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OPINION

Recently, I was innocently strolling through the newly reopened Art Gallery of Ontario when I looked up, looked wwaaaaayy up. There, towering a good 25 feet or so above me, was a hugely written word carved into immutable stone.