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Junos to recognize Aboriginal Music

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Aboriginal music has at last gained a niche in the Juno Awards, which are governed by the Canadian Association of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Five songs have been nominated for the Best Music of Aboriginal Canada category. Two are by J. Hubert Francis & Eagle Feather of Sunshine Records; one is by the Stoney park Singers on the Sweet Grass label; Sazacha Red Sky on Amxeyra and Lawrence Martin on Wawatay/EMI are the other two.

Junos to recognize Aboriginal Music

Page 8

Aboriginal music has at last gained a niche in the Juno Awards, which are governed by the Canadian Association of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Five songs have been nominated for the Best Music of Aboriginal Canada category. Two are by J. Hubert Francis & Eagle Feather of Sunshine Records; one is by the Stoney park Singers on the Sweet Grass label; Sazacha Red Sky on Amxeyra and Lawrence Martin on Wawatay/EMI are the other two.

Why the butt stops here

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No doubt Canada has now reached almost mythic proportions around the world for the way it can take simple little incidents involving Native people and try its darndest to blow them so far out of proportion that the eye can't even focus on them. If not for the want and greed of a nine-hole golf course, who would have ever heard of that small town called Oka?

And who would have ever thought a simple package of cigarettes would have been the first significant tax cut this country has seen in a long time? Only in Canada, you say? Incredible.

Why the butt stops here

Page 7

No doubt Canada has now reached almost mythic proportions around the world for the way it can take simple little incidents involving Native people and try its darndest to blow them so far out of proportion that the eye can't even focus on them. If not for the want and greed of a nine-hole golf course, who would have ever heard of that small town called Oka?

And who would have ever thought a simple package of cigarettes would have been the first significant tax cut this country has seen in a long time? Only in Canada, you say? Incredible.

Why the butt stops here

Page 7

No doubt Canada has now reached almost mythic proportions around the world for the way it can take simple little incidents involving Native people and try its darndest to blow them so far out of proportion that the eye can't even focus on them. If not for the want and greed of a nine-hole golf course, who would have ever heard of that small town called Oka?

And who would have ever thought a simple package of cigarettes would have been the first significant tax cut this country has seen in a long time? Only in Canada, you say? Incredible.

Why the butt stops here

Page 7

No doubt Canada has now reached almost mythic proportions around the world for the way it can take simple little incidents involving Native people and try its darndest to blow them so far out of proportion that the eye can't even focus on them. If not for the want and greed of a nine-hole golf course, who would have ever heard of that small town called Oka?

And who would have ever thought a simple package of cigarettes would have been the first significant tax cut this country has seen in a long time? Only in Canada, you say? Incredible.