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There was great weather all weekend long for the Onion Lake First Nation Powwow, held July 16 to 18, and it showed in the number of dancers attending the event.

For the opening grand entry on Friday night there were already over 500 dancers, numbers organizers don't usually see until Saturday night.

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The members of Little Pine and Lucky Man First Nations gathered together earlier this summer to mark the passing of 125 years since Chief Minahikosis (Little Pine) and Chief Papewas (Lucky Man) signed an adhesion to Treaty 6.

While other leaders signed the treaty with the crown in 1876 and 1877, Minahikosis and Papewas refused to sign. Then, in 1879, the buffalo scarce and their people short of food, they too joined the treaty.

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Two beavers and their friends learn the value of teamwork as they battle a fierce forest fire in a new children's book called The Beaver's Big House. Published by the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research (GDI), the book is aimed at children in grades 3 and 4.

Twenty-six-year-old Shanna LaFramboise has amassed an impressive list of accomplishments: Health Canada scholarship recipient, Canada World Youth participant, university graduate and registered nurse. Now she has a new addition to that list-national Aboriginal role model.

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It's every parent's worst nightmare-a missing child.

It's been over a month-and-a-half since five-year-old Tamra Keepness went missing from her Regina home and the search for her continues. From the beginning those search efforts have been aided by people from across the province, each wanting to do their part in efforts to bring little Tamra home.

Tamra went missing sometime between 11 p.m. on July 5, when her mother sent her off to bed, and noon the next day, when she was discovered missing.

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More than 500 people took part in a national residential school gathering held Aug. 3 to 5 on the Gordon First Nation, hoping to find help and support in dealing with the trauma they may have suffered as a result of the residential school experience and to learn more about the options available to them in the courts.

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It's taken three years and a change of venue, but the Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC) can finally go ahead with its plans to build a casino.

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If you are looking for great food and live entertainment, you will be sure to find it at the 17th annual Tyendinaga Mohawk Powwow that will be held Aug. 14 and 15.

As one of the largest traditional gatherings in Ontario, the festivities will feature traditional music and dancing and a craft fair.

The theme for this year, Honouring Our Men, pays tribute to community members' hard work and dedication in organizing this event.

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Raising public awareness and promoting education on violence against women in the Aboriginal community has become the prime mission of the Aboriginal Women Against Violence Everywhere Coalition (AWAVE). Formed by Status of Women Canada (SWC) last December, this organization is spending $1 million to develop a four-year plan to tackle the issue of physical and sexual assault.

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At the age of 19, Sheena Lee Smith-Spencer has already become quite an accomplished athlete. Since she began practicing taekwondo at the age of 11, Smith-Spencer has been adding to her collection of medals and has no intention of slowing down any time soon.

It was a fascination with a cartoon called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that led Smith-Spencer to pursue taekwondo. After pleading with her mother to let her try out the sport, Smith-Spencer eventually took lessons.