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Two Albertans have been named among 14 people to receive National Aboriginal Achievement Awards at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on March 28.
Oilman Mel Benson is a member of the Beaver Lake First Nation and will be recognized in business and commerce category.
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Economic prosperity for Aboriginal people is not only good for Aboriginal communities, it is also good for Canadians and Canada as a whole. This is the view of new Assembly of First Nations Chief Matthew Coon Come, and the message he brought to Yellowknife and the annual meeting…
Circle of Trade Show Guide Supplement
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Attention Aboriginal job seekers-everything you need to find the job you're looking for, or to access the training you need to get the job you want, is now available through the Inclusion Network Web site.
The new site-www.…
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Andy Fox, a pro at the Cotton Wood Coulee Golf Course in Medicine Hat, was the men's overall winner at the 1995 North American Golf Championships. His younger brother Rocky Fox finished in second place.
The three-day event was shared by more than 120 people at Waterton…
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Andy Fox, a pro at the Cotton Wood Coulee Golf Course in Medicine Hat, was the men's overall winner at the 1995 North American Golf Championships. His younger brother Rocky Fox finished in second place.
The three-day event was shared by more than 120 people at Waterton…
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Two Ontarians have been named among 14 who will receive a National Aboriginal Achievement Award at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on March 28.
Rock legend Robbie Robertson won the lifetime achievement award, and novelist Thomas King won in the arts and culture category…
Year in review-January 2002
In our inaugural issue last January, Ontario Birchbark was published under the name Windspeaker Ontario. This first issue and the next two appeared as a 12-page insert in our news publication, Windspeaker. An article by publisher Bert Crowfoot titled Ontario…
The former head of Syncrude Canada has been recognized nationally for his extensive dealings with Aboriginal businesses.
Eric Newell, a 67-year-old Edmonton resident, received this year’s Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Relations.
This marked the second year that officials from the…
Devin Buffalo is no longer a goaltender that nobody wants.
In fact, the 20-year-old, from the Samson Cree Nation in Hobbema, Alta., is a star junior puckstopper. And he’s got a rather bright future as well.
Next year Buffalo will head to a prestigious Ivy League school—New Hampshire’s…
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Sixteen-year-old 'Alika LaFontaine seems to have it all together for his age: a close and loving family, a solid record of academic achievement, a career goal, community and peer support for just about everything he does, and to top it all off, he is recognized this…
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A new location has meant added strength for the KiseWaToTaToWin Aboriginal Parent Program now that it is more closely allied with seven other child and parent organizations.
The organization, which promotes pre-European contact parenting methods for Aboriginal parents, held…
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The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association have called, at least temporarily, a truce in their battle with the federal government.
The federal government, through the departments of Veterans Affairs and Indian…
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The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association have called, at least temporarily, a truce in their battle with the federal government.
The federal government, through the departments of Veterans Affairs and Indian…
The primary focus of University of Toronto’s newly-opened Office of Indigenous Medical Education (OIME) is “to provide a welcoming home for Indigenous medical students,” according to Mark Hanson, associate dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Finances.
At the opening on Feb. 3, Hanson…
Circle of Trade Show Guide Supplement
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The continued growth in the number of successful Aboriginal businesses that operate across the country can be credited in part to the efforts of the many organizations that exist-both at the national and regional levels-to support the…
