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The multi-talented Thomas B. Maracle has added another item to his long list of accomplishments-the renowned sculptor and award-winning musician has released his fourth CD of original music.
Mixed Emotions, recorded at Maracle's Sa Tune Da Ga Multi-Media Studios on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, was released last year, and Maracle is already hard at work on his fifth album.
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The multi-talented Thomas B. Maracle has added another item to his long list of accomplishments-the renowned sculptor and award-winning musician has released his fourth CD of original music.
Mixed Emotions, recorded at Maracle's Sa Tune Da Ga Multi-Media Studios on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, was released last year, and Maracle is already hard at work on his fifth album.
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The American Indian Integration of Baseball
By Jeffrey Powers-Beck, University of Nebraska Press, 257 pages (hc)
$34.95 US
As Suzan Shown Harjo's fight with the Washington Redskins resumed in court in April, attention returned to the issue of Indian mascots and professional sports teams.
On April 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard oral arguments in Harjo et al. v. Pro-Football, Inc., the corporate name of the Washington, D.C. National Football League club.
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An $84,000 a year contract between the Aboriginal People's Television Network (APTN) and Jerry Giberson, the common-law husband of long-time APTN board member Debbie Brisebois, was the subject of two pages of discussion in a report entitled "Control and Business Processes Review Project," produced for the network by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in January 2003.
In the report, the PWC auditors noted that having the spouse of a board member under contract could be seen by some as a conflict of interest.
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An $84,000 a year contract between the Aboriginal People's Television Network (APTN) and Jerry Giberson, the common-law husband of long-time APTN board member Debbie Brisebois, was the subject of two pages of discussion in a report entitled "Control and Business Processes Review Project," produced for the network by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in January 2003.
In the report, the PWC auditors noted that having the spouse of a board member under contract could be seen by some as a conflict of interest.
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The chemistry of the executive board of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) will change in June, now that Ontario Regional Chief Charles Fox has submitted his resignation.
Fox's resignation will be effective as of the Chiefs of Ontario annual meeting to be held in Eagle Lake First Nation near Dryden from June 14 to 16. His successor will be chosen at that meeting.
The regional chief occupies the influential Ontario seat on the 10-member AFN executive board. A long list of potential replacements for Fox is being discussed in First Nation political circles.
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The chemistry of the executive board of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) will change in June, now that Ontario Regional Chief Charles Fox has submitted his resignation.
Fox's resignation will be effective as of the Chiefs of Ontario annual meeting to be held in Eagle Lake First Nation near Dryden from June 14 to 16. His successor will be chosen at that meeting.
The regional chief occupies the influential Ontario seat on the 10-member AFN executive board. A long list of potential replacements for Fox is being discussed in First Nation political circles.
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National Chief Phil Fontaine is predicting a major announcement from the federal government on residential school compensation.
During a one-on-one interview with Windspeaker on May 12 in Edmonton, the national chief was confident that the federal government would soon announce a dramatic shift in the way it has been dealing with residential school compensation.
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National Chief Phil Fontaine is predicting a major announcement from the federal government on residential school compensation.
During a one-on-one interview with Windspeaker on May 12 in Edmonton, the national chief was confident that the federal government would soon announce a dramatic shift in the way it has been dealing with residential school compensation.
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Windspeaker has obtained confidential documents that suggest British Columbia's Liberal government is switching gears in the way it deals with First Nations people and their constitutional rights and title to the land.