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A world champion and a Paralympic gold medallist are this year's national recipients of the Tom Longboat Award.

The awards honor Canada's most outstanding Aboriginal athletes.

Lara Mussell, an ultimate Frisbee player who lives in Maple Ridge, B.C., is the female athlete for 2004. And the male winner is Richard Peter, a wheelchair basketball player, who lives in Vancouver.

Both were presented with their awards at a ceremony on April 21 in Miramichi, N.B. The ceremony was held in conjunction with the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships.

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Nasivvik

"We are the most taxed people in Canada!"

This complaint has passed the lips of most of the 10,000-plus people who live in the Nunavik Territory. If some people have not actually said this, they have certainly heard it being said by others. This statement has been asserted to an assortment of government ministers and commissions in a wide variety of meetings and hearings. It is not a frivolous or whining statement, because it happens to be true.

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Nasivvik

"We are the most taxed people in Canada!"

This complaint has passed the lips of most of the 10,000-plus people who live in the Nunavik Territory. If some people have not actually said this, they have certainly heard it being said by others. This statement has been asserted to an assortment of government ministers and commissions in a wide variety of meetings and hearings. It is not a frivolous or whining statement, because it happens to be true.

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Pro Bono

Dear Tuma:

I want to know about why it costs $50 to get a financial statement from my band. When I requested this, I was told it would cost me $50. I don't feel this is right. As a band member, am I not entitled to view this information? I am deeply concerned where all the funds are going on the reserve.

No Money Honey

Dear No Money Honey:

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Pro Bono

Dear Tuma:

I want to know about why it costs $50 to get a financial statement from my band. When I requested this, I was told it would cost me $50. I don't feel this is right. As a band member, am I not entitled to view this information? I am deeply concerned where all the funds are going on the reserve.

No Money Honey

Dear No Money Honey:

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Urbane Indian

You wouldn't think it, but in some parts of the world, theatre can rattle the walls and shake things up, but not for the reasons you might think. Theatre was created to provoke, to challenge, to make you think, to laugh, and to imagine. And sometimes you have to wonder if what may happen theatrically on the other side of the world might have some resonance here.

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Urbane Indian

You wouldn't think it, but in some parts of the world, theatre can rattle the walls and shake things up, but not for the reasons you might think. Theatre was created to provoke, to challenge, to make you think, to laugh, and to imagine. And sometimes you have to wonder if what may happen theatrically on the other side of the world might have some resonance here.

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Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?

Elisapie Isaac: What one quality? That's a nice question. I guess a friend who is able to really listen. To put his things aside ... just the quality of someone to just listen.

W: What is it that really makes you mad?

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Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?

Elisapie Isaac: What one quality? That's a nice question. I guess a friend who is able to really listen. To put his things aside ... just the quality of someone to just listen.

W: What is it that really makes you mad?

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Eight years ago, a group of students attending Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas got together one day just to hang out and play some music. Out of that impromptu jam session was born Tha Tribe, a contemporary drum group that has made a name for itself both on the powwow circuit and in the recording studio.

Members of the group have come and gone over time, but year after year Tha Tribe produces original songs that merge the traditional with the modern to create a style all its own.