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The Saskatchewan Arts Alliance hosted the 2004 Arts Congress in Saskatoon on May 7 and 8 with a variety of guests from the Native community, including Saskatchewan Minister of Culture, Youth and Recreation Joan Beatty and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor.

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Maria Campbell, renowned Metis author, playwright, film-maker and teacher, has received this year's Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize in the Arts in recognition of her contributions to Canada's literary and cultural identity.

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For years Nora Cummings has been working to help improve the situation for Aboriginal women across the province. On May 13, her efforts were recognized when she was awarded a 2003 Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal.

The Metis senator was one of eight citizens to receive the medal, handed out by Lt.-Gov.Dr. Lynda Haverstock at the provincial legislature. The medals are awarded to recognize outstanding volunteer service or exceptional community involvement.

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Dallas Poundmaker has been an artist since he was a child. Growing up, he focused mainly on traditional Aboriginal art because his culture is important to him and his family. Now as part of a community art project in Saskatoon, he's being paid to do what he loves and is gaining valuable life skills.

Poundmaker is just one student at Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming Inc. (SCYAP), an organization that helps at-risk youth get their lives back on track by encouraging their artistic side to flourish.

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It all began in 1999 when a group of Aboriginal businessmen got together to talk about what they could do to help inner city kids in their neighbourhood. Since then, the Regina Aboriginal Kin Club been busy raising money for sport and recreation programs that encourage youth to become more involved in their community.

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What started out as a hobby for Debra Cameron and Shelly Eyahpaise has lead to a major archaeological discovery that could change the history of North America as we know it.

Cameron and Eyahpaise, both of Beardy's, have discovered a fully intact spearhead believed to date from approximately 12,000 BCE. If so, the spearhead would be proof prehistoric hunters were present in the area thousands of years prior to when scientists believe they first arrived on the scene.

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Herb George is out of politics now and into governance.

The former Assembly of First Nations British Columbia vice- chief who retired from politics late in 2003 is working to establish the First Nations Governance Centre.

"It will be designed to assist in the further development of our day-to-day government operations, and it will support us as we seek to implement the inherent rights of self-government," George wrote in a discussion paper that has been used during consultation sessions.

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Lisa Eagles says everyone is welcome at their traditional powwow and all nations gathering, celebrating its 10th annual run this summer, but a lot of people still don't know about it.

The powwow will be held Aug. 6 to 8 at Whitefish Lake, on Centennial Ridges Road near the east gate of Algonquin Park.

"We're about 2.8 kilometres in that road," said Eagles, "and we're the last thing on that road."

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Nearly 200 dancers competed in the 28th annual Odawa Competitive Powwow at the Ottawa Municipal Campground from May 28 to 30. They travelled to the nation's capital from across Ontario, and as far away as British Columbia, the Atlantic Provinces and Texas.

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On May 7, Frontiers Foundation hosted a fund-raising dinner and roast for Lawrence Gladue in Toronto. Frontiers Foundation, an Aboriginal voluntary service organization now in its 39th year, has also written to the prime minister proposing that Gladue be appointed the next governor general of Canada.

Gladue, a Metis from northern Alberta, ran the Rural and Native Housing Program for the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation from 1973 until 1993 when the program was cancelled. In 20 years, this program constructed more than 100,000 homes.