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GUEST COLUMN

Prime Minister Paul Martin, in his opening statement to the Canada-Aboriginal Peoples Roundtable (April 19, 2004), is right when he says "We should not underestimate how much work we have to do, nor should we pretend that it will always be easy."

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Recommends:

Indian Boyhood

by Charles A. Eastman Ohiyesa

Dover Publications-1902

This is a book of boyhood recollections and Dakota tribal lore of Ohiyesa, later known as Charles A. Eastman, who was born in Minnesota in 1860 of the Wahpeton band of the Santee Sioux (Dakota).

He writes about the time before his group was driven from their homelands in Minnesota to Manitoba because of the Little Crow uprising when the Santee Sioux rose up against the American invaders and colonizers.

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Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle

Reproductive Rights, Environmental Health, Traditional Herbs and Remedies

Editors Charon Asetoyer, M.A., Katharine Cronk, Ph.D. and Samanthi Hewakapuge, M.A.

Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center-2004

322 pages (sc) $32.95 US

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Artist-Various

Album-Mitataht askiy: Sweet Grass Records

10 Years

Label-Sweet Grass Records

Producer-Ted Whitecalf

How do you celebrate a decade of bringing some of the best in traditional and contemporary Aboriginal music to audiences around the world? Well, if you're Ted Whitecalf of Sweet Grass Records, you mark the anniversary by releasing an album that presents a sampling of the work put forward by the company over the past 10 years.

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Annabella Piugattuk, 21, was born in Iqualuit, Nunavut, grew up in Igloolik and is now in Vancouver concentrating on her studies to earn her high school diploma. She received a 2004 Genie nomination in the performance by an actress in a supporting role category for her portrayal of Kanaalaq in the recently released movie The Snow Walker. The film marked her professional acting debut.

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

Annabella Piugattuk:

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The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) have been delayed a year after the games' governing council ended its relationship with the group that had earned the right to host the games in 2005.

The NAIG council was expected to re-open the bidding to potential hosts after a scheduled three-day meeting in Denver May 13 to 15.

Another group in Buffalo may be awarded the games or it could go to another city.

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Keiko Miki, president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC), attended a ceremony in Winnipeg on April 14 to call on the government of Canada to compensate former residential school students for loss of language and culture.

It was 16 years to the day after some 500 Japanese-Canadians and their supporters had rallied on Parliament Hill in 1988 to call for redress for people of Japanese heritage who had been denied basic human and citizenship rights by Canada during and after the Second World War.

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Jim Pankiw will soon have to explain his actions to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

The decision came down in late April that the commission's tribunal will hear John Melenchuk's complaint against the independent Member of Parliament for Saskatoon-Humboldt.

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Six Nations of the Grand River band councillor Dave General admited he travelled to Saskatchewan to make a few waves. Little did he know he would be caught in a riptide of conflicting currents.

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Ontario had its most successful year yet at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships. The province sent four teams to the tournament, held April 18 to 24 in Prince George, B.C., and all four clubs won medals.

The Ontario South girls' team won its third consecutive title. The squad defended its crown by downing the Quebec-based team Eastern Door and The North 5-2 in the gold-medal contest.

The Ontario North girls' side also won its final game, beating Saskatchewan 9-7 in the bronze-medal match.