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Fear about the spread of diabetes in Canadian Aboriginal communities and hope for their prevention were served up in equal measure by participants at the Fourth International Conference on Diabetes and Indigenous Peoples held Oct. 8 to 11 in San Diego.

Medical experts from Manitoba sounded the alarm about the number of Aboriginal adults with diabetes, which in that province is expected to triple by the year 2016. They stressed the disease is also starting to appear in children as young as six years old.

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Fear about the spread of diabetes in Canadian Aboriginal communities and hope for their prevention were served up in equal measure by participants at the Fourth International Conference on Diabetes and Indigenous Peoples held Oct. 8 to 11 in San Diego.

Medical experts from Manitoba sounded the alarm about the number of Aboriginal adults with diabetes, which in that province is expected to triple by the year 2016. They stressed the disease is also starting to appear in children as young as six years old.

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Fear about the spread of diabetes in Canadian Aboriginal communities and hope for their prevention were served up in equal measure by participants at the Fourth International Conference on Diabetes and Indigenous Peoples held Oct. 8 to 11 in San Diego.

Medical experts from Manitoba sounded the alarm about the number of Aboriginal adults with diabetes, which in that province is expected to triple by the year 2016. They stressed the disease is also starting to appear in children as young as six years old.

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Juno nominees in the Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording category were honored at a pre-awards show gathering on March 3 at Duke Redbird's the Coloured Stone in Toronto, a favorite nightspot for Aboriginal artists and actors.

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Juno nominees in the Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording category were honored at a pre-awards show gathering on March 3 at Duke Redbird's the Coloured Stone in Toronto, a favorite nightspot for Aboriginal artists and actors.

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It was a humble and surprised Florent Vollant who received this year's award for the Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording on March 4 at the 30th annual Juno Awards for his CD Nipaiamianan.

Vollant, the eighth winner in this category, is an Innu singer/songwriter/producer best known for being one half of the Innu group Kashtin. Along with his cousin, Claude McKenzie, Kashtin received international recognition for its recordings, all done in the Innu language.

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It was a humble and surprised Florent Vollant who received this year's award for the Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording on March 4 at the 30th annual Juno Awards for his CD Nipaiamianan.

Vollant, the eighth winner in this category, is an Innu singer/songwriter/producer best known for being one half of the Innu group Kashtin. Along with his cousin, Claude McKenzie, Kashtin received international recognition for its recordings, all done in the Innu language.

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It was 25 years ago this March that Indian rights activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was found murdered on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. On March 22, Yvette Nolan's play Annie Mae's Movement made a timely debut with Native Earth Performing Arts.

The play is about the last few years of Aquash's life, depicting what it might have been like to be her, a Mi'kmaq woman born in Shubenacadie, N. S. in March 1945.

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It was 25 years ago this March that Indian rights activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was found murdered on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. On March 22, Yvette Nolan's play Annie Mae's Movement made a timely debut with Native Earth Performing Arts.

The play is about the last few years of Aquash's life, depicting what it might have been like to be her, a Mi'kmaq woman born in Shubenacadie, N. S. in March 1945.

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REVIEW

A frontier town met the final frontier when Edmonton played host to the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards on March 16.

This year's 14 award recipients were the stars set among a galaxy of planets, represented on stage by dangling globes of color and sharing space with the brown hand of the Creator reaching down from the heavens to clasp a world in his fingers.