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The Indian Claims Commission (ICC) is now partially responsible for the heartbreak of the Elders of Carry The Kettle First Nation.

Since 1997, the First Nation has been working closely with the ICC, researching the bands claim that the Cypress Hills area was the selected land that the First Nation and the Crown agreed upon in the signing of Treaty 4 in 1877.

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The efforts and achievements of the Construction Career Development Project have been officially recognized by the Saskatchewan Labour Force Development Board, (SLFDB) with the project receiving one of the board's annual Training for Excellence awards.

The project was the recipient of this year's award in the Promotion of Aboriginal Participation category, one of six categories of awards given out by the SLFDB each year. The awards were handed out June 15 in Regina.

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A number of employers across Saskatchewan are looking at ways to increase the representation of Aboriginal people within their work forces, with an eye to both the present and the future.

Donalda Ford is assistant director of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission in Regina.

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Russel "Sam" Badger says he doesn't have a clue about acting - yet he worked with international film star Jackie Chan.

"I don't know anything," chuckled the man originally from Mistawasis First Nation, 65 km west of Prince Albert. "They just picked me because I kind of look like an Indian."

Now a Sturgeon Lake area resident, Badger finished shooting his scenes playing a chief in Chan's new action-comedy titled, Shanghai Noon, last summer. Filmed near Calgary, the movie is currently in theatres.

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In a surprisingly swift decision, the United States parole examiner has crushed the latest hope for freedom for Leonard Peltier, recommending that Peltier's sentence be continued until his next full parole hearing in 2008.

The recommendation came during an interim parole hearing held for Peltier June 12 at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas.

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Born into Mistawasis First Nation in 1976, Lorne Horse Duquette grew up street-wise and nomadic, moving from city to reserve and back again, serving time in residential school as a child and prison as a teenager.

He is a young man whose life journey has taken him from a boyhood spent in the wilds of Saskatchewan to the bright lights of Montreal, and then to national exposure as an actor in Big Bear, the CBC television film.

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Frank Dreaver and Leonard Peltier have an extraordinary working relationship. Their destinies are bound together in a sacred trust, tied to a moral, spiritual duty that has become a life mission for one man seeking the freedom of the other.

Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement activist, political prisoner and victim of Canada's most controversial extradition, has been behind bars in an American prison for 24 years.

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Fourteen-year-old Rose Brass wasn't always the championship swimmer that she is today.

"She tried hockey first of all, then soccer, gymnastics, dancing, and finally swimming," said Giff Brass of his daughter's athletic endeavors. "Swimming seems to be her thing."

Her mother Jean agreed with her husband, adding, "When she first started swimming, her dad would take her to the pool, get her in the water and stuff. She was two when she started.