Page 26

Naomi Williams, 28, an assistant environmental technologist from Walpole Island First Nation, credits a federal government program called BEAHR with expanding her career options and providing an opportunity to help her preserve her people's natural resource heritage.

Page 25

You only have to look at some of the headlines peppering newspapers across the country to see that prostitution is dangerous. It's also a life from which it is difficult to escape. But for the past decade an organization in Regina has been working to help people involved in prostitution turn their lives around.

Page 24

In 1992, a television series called North of 60 made its way into millions of Canadian homes. Starring Aboriginal actors Tina Keeper, Dakota House, Jimmy Herman and Tom Jackson, the show chronicled the trials and tribulations of the people who lived in the fictional First Nations community of Lynx River.

Page 23

For six years Glen McCallum has been using his own experience with addictions and healing to help other people come to terms with the past and their problems and to chart their own course toward wellness.

McCallum is president and counsellor associate at Building A Nation Inc., an organization that provides counselling services in the Saskatoon area. But before he began working to help people deal with their demons he had to deal with many demons of his own.

Page 22

I have a disease known as schizophrenia. Individuals with this disorder vary in their presentation of symptoms. For me, there are days when everything is detailed, scary and frightening, or there are days of seeing things moving around in my apartment which are not really there. There are days where I weep because my life is one big roller coaster. Then there are days where extra medication is the only answer. Finally, there are the days where I've been successful.

Page 22

The two conventional approaches used to fight obesity just don't work well, said Noreen Willows, an assistant professor of community nutrition at the University of Alberta (U of A).

Page 21

Aboriginal children are not just overweight they are becoming obese. That's a trend Chief Harold Sappier Memorial Elementary School in New Brunswick wants to end.

This fall the St. Mary's First Nation school discouraged students from bringing pop and chips in their lunches, effectively eliminating junk food from the school. The school then introduced a new physical education program called BOOST to help combat the serious health problems, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes, that can come from obesity.

Page 18

NASIVVIK

Among the catalogue of present-day problems that confront the Arctic, garbage has bullied itself onto the list as one of the monumental ones. Inuit all over are now living in surroundings marked by great quantities of garbage. This applies not only in the towns, but also "out on the land." Modern garbage is everywhere and is made of long-lasting, almost indestructible space-age material, which neither weather nor time can degrade.

Page 18

PRO BONO

Dear Tuma:

In your last column, you wrote about custom adoptions. What is a custom adoption and how is it done?

Looking To Adopt

Dear Looking:

Page 18

THE URBANE INDIAN

Surprisingly, Toronto and Washington, D.C. have much in common. Both have muddy, dirty rivers-ours is the Don and theirs the Potomac. Each has its own large phallic symbol looking down benignly over the city-the CN Tower and the Washington Monument. (Ours is bigger, not that it matters, I'm told.)

But Washington has something we don't have. It now has a museum dedicated to Indigenous people.