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2005 Aboriginal History Calendar inside

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If you hold this publication up and give it a shake your Windspeaker 2005 Aboriginal History Calendar should fall out from the pages.

The calendar is an annual December insert in Windspeaker, much anticipated by the readers, who look forward to seeing which two Aboriginal smiling faces will grace the walls of their offices, school classrooms and homes for the next 12 months.

Clarence Campeau: Metis visionary leader, promoted education success

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When people say someone is so generous they'd give you the shirt off of their back, they are usually speaking figuratively. With Clarence Campeau, that statement could be taken at face value.

Campeau was a man known for his generosity, for his sense of humor and for his dedication to improving the lot of the Metis people of Saskatchewan.

Call for papers

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The University of New Zealand will host the seventh annual World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 2005. The conference will be opened by the Moari Queen Dame Te Atairangikaahu who visited southern Alberta in 2002 when Morley hosted the event.

The event includes keynote speakers from around the world, seminars, workshops, and an array of activities and sight seeing opportunities.

The theme of the 2005 conference is Te Toi Roa which calls for a celebration of Indigenous stories and beliefs, values and history.

Blood quantum the important thing to U.S. customs

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PRO BONO

Dear Tuma:

I'm a non-status Native living off reserve in Canada. My mother is a status and lives on reserve. Now I had heard that I can work in the United States of America and wanted to know how I can do this.

Unemployed Snowbird

Dear Unemployed:

There are a couple of ways to obtain a job in the United States. For many Indigenous folks, all that is required is to declare that you will be entering the country under the Jay Treaty, but this is not the only way to work in the U.S.