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Long jail terms and heavy fines are not the punishments of choice for wrongdoing on the Alexis Reserve.
Though standard Canadian punishment is not completely avoided, it is often tempered or eliminated through the local First Nation justice committee project, a successful program that may now serve as a portable model in reserves across Alberta.
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Long jail terms and heavy fines are not the punishments of choice for wrongdoing on the Alexis Reserve.
Though standard Canadian punishment is not completely avoided, it is often tempered or eliminated through the local First Nation justice committee project, a successful program that may now serve as a portable model in reserves across Alberta.
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Camillia Shott is a 16-year-old emerging artist who lives in Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement and attends Caslan School in Caslan.
Recently Sweetgrass had the opportunity to look over a selection of her drawings depicting life up north, and the historical and cultural themes that are dear to her.
Camillia hasn't decided what she wants to do for a career yet, but it is clear that she is talented with pencil, pastel and brush. Pencil drawing is her favorite, followed by pastels and charcoal. Paint is her least favorite medium because "sometimes it's messy."
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An update on the Soonias brothers who went to the Canada Games this summer and whose athletic prowess was first highlighted here in July:
Sarain and Dallas had a very successful 2001 Canada Summer Games. Sarain, 19, won a bronze medal with Team Alberta basketball. He has now commenced classes in Medicine Hat College where he hopes to prepare for university and a career in journalism. Sarain plays for the Medicine Hat Rattlers basketball team. He is also participating in an Aboriginal basketball tournament in Gleichan this fall.
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An update on the Soonias brothers who went to the Canada Games this summer and whose athletic prowess was first highlighted here in July:
Sarain and Dallas had a very successful 2001 Canada Summer Games. Sarain, 19, won a bronze medal with Team Alberta basketball. He has now commenced classes in Medicine Hat College where he hopes to prepare for university and a career in journalism. Sarain plays for the Medicine Hat Rattlers basketball team. He is also participating in an Aboriginal basketball tournament in Gleichan this fall.
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It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
A private communion with the ancestors and the viewing of sacred bundles unopened for 125 years, a time for tears, reflection and giving of offerings by men, women and children from the Treaty 6 nations in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
A private communion with the ancestors and the viewing of sacred bundles unopened for 125 years, a time for tears, reflection and giving of offerings by men, women and children from the Treaty 6 nations in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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Decisions about land use should incorporate local Aboriginal people's traditional knowledge of the land, and their consent must be obtained along with government's before development, according to Allan J. Wolfleg.
Wolfleg, a Blackfoot from the Siksika Nation and a member of the regulatory advisory committee of Environment Canada, presented his views at a lunchtime seminar on traditional knowledge and environmental protection at the Environmental Law Centre in Edmonton on Sept. 20.
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Decisions about land use should incorporate local Aboriginal people's traditional knowledge of the land, and their consent must be obtained along with government's before development, according to Allan J. Wolfleg.
Wolfleg, a Blackfoot from the Siksika Nation and a member of the regulatory advisory committee of Environment Canada, presented his views at a lunchtime seminar on traditional knowledge and environmental protection at the Environmental Law Centre in Edmonton on Sept. 20.
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If you go into the woods, make sure Walter Quinn is with you.
Quinn, a long-time trapper, recently unveiled his new Aboriginal cultural camp located at Deeridge Estates, five kilometres southeast of Lac La Biche.
With sponsorship from Alberta Pacific Forest Industries, where Quinn is employed as a trapper co-ordinator, the culture camp offers up a traditional glimpse of Aboriginal culture and spirituality.
From authentic tipis to traditional feasts made over an open fire, the camp serves up a sampling of Aboriginal life to visitors from near and far.