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The Indian Communication Arts program at the First Nations University of Canada is making a business out of teaching its students, in more ways than one.

Over the summer, 10 students from the department took part in the Sask Scene project, traveling across the province, visiting festivals, interviewing young people about what they think of Saskatchewan, and using cameras to document the whole thing.

The results of their work can be found online at www.saskscene.com.

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Over the years, Jeremy Torrie has worn many hats. His bio on the Web site for his company, High Definition Pictures, lists him as a writer, editor, camera operator, director, producer and executive producer. But it was a co-producer's hat he wore on the set of Cowboys and Indians: The Killing of J.J. Harper.

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Attention artists-if you have ever thought about trying to find a market for your work outside our borders, there is a workshop coming to a community near you that you should think about attending.

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It's an amazing thing when a young girl of 10 can take a personal tragedy, turn it around, and change it into something that benefits others. It's even more amazing when six years later, that same young girl is still dedicating herself to that very same cause.

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Sitting Bull, Crowfoot, Louis Riel and more

Great Chiefs

By Tony Hollihan

Lone Pine Publishing

320 pages (sc)

$14.95

The history books are full of the names of Aboriginal leaders and how they reacted when European explorers and settlers began to take over their lands.

From Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse, from Crowfoot to Louis Riel, all were powerful Aboriginal men who led their people in uncertain times. All were leaders who worked to improve the lives of their followers, with varying degrees of success.

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Radio Most Active

Album-Ashley Robertson

Song-Living in Misery

Label-Frizzell House

M-u-s-i-c

Producer-Allen Frizzell

New to the country music scene is Winnipegger Ashley Robertson, whose new CD Ashley Robertson is impressing the people who make a difference in the music industry around the world-the fans.

Her single "Living in Misery" debuted at #5 on the EMS European Top 30 Independent Airplay Chart on Sept. 5 and stood at #3 as of Sept. 11.

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MUSIC BIZ 101

Radio airplay is essential to the promotional campaign of any new release. As an independent artist with limited financial resources, it must be co-ordinated strategically to maximize listener exposure. Commercial radio is classified under major, medium and small markets.

Non-commercial radio stations include community radio, such as college and university radio stations and Aboriginal radio. These are localized and often act as springboards for building audience awareness and support for live performances.

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The Urbane Indian

When Europeans first landed on these shores so many years ago, it has been estimated that there were approximately 100 million Native people waiting here to welcome them with local delicacies like tomatos, potatoes, tobacco and corn. And in the intervening 500-odd years, our effects on the land across the big pond known as the Atlantic is often thought of being limited to just produce. And canoes and kayaks.

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Medium Rare

The editorial writers at the Globe and Mail were clearly shocked and appalled when they published their Op-Ed pages in the Sept. 15 edition.

"What was Phil Fontaine thinking," they wrote, "when he sent a letter to an Ontario judge about the continuing case of two half-Native girls up for adoption?"

Surely, they sputtered, Fontaine must know "that judges are not to be lobbied as if they were civil servants or elected officials."

The nerve! The gall! Quel boorish behavior!

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NASIVVIK

Here are a few questions that have crossed the mind of every Aboriginal person in Canada at some time or other: When and how did our ancestral lands become the property of somebody else? By whose doctrine have we found ourselves to be somebody else's subjects, bereft of lands and resources, doomed to be tenants in our own lands?