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A unique cross-cultural exchange took place in a Toronto theatre this spring. The Toronto-based Centre for Indigenous Theatre (CIT), which runs a three-year, full-time training program and a four-week summer school, collaborated with the New Zealand-based Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre on the production of Waiora, a two-act play written by Maori writer Hone Kouka. The production…
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May seems to be an eventful month for the Kanata Iroquoian Village in Brantford. It was in May 2000 when it opened its doors to their first tourists. It was May 2002 that they were declared National Winners by the Canadian Tourism Commission for their tour "White Pine Experience."
And it was in May 2003 that it was almost totally destroyed by arson.
With the…
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A Native child welfare conference held on Manitoulin Island April 30 to May 2 attracted delegates from across Ontario. The event was hosted by Kina Gbezhgomi Child and Family Services of Wikwemikong.
Their aim was to find new ways to recruit and retain First Nations' foster parents.
"Child welfare is really in a crisis," Kina Gbezhomi executive director Dianne Roach…
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Sharilyn Johnston considers it a win-win situation.
Johnston is the commodore for the Chippewas of the Thames Canoe Club based in Muncey, located about 40 kilometres southwest of London.
Though the club has been around for five years, it was only this May that it joined the 54-club Canadian Canoe Association. The Muncey-based club was one of nine new clubs accepted…
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A grateful Native community has donated $300 to an agency that is one of its own biggest supporters. The gesture was aimed to show appreciation for financial and social support received over many years.
Toronto's Native Canadian Centre is helped by many individuals and organizations in providing the Native community of Toronto with cultural, social, recreational and…
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Once again the beat of a drum and dancers swaying in their colorful regalia will be the scene as the community of Dokis First Nation celebrates their third annual Honoring All Women powwow, June 28 and 29.
Local and out-of-town dancers and drummers will perform. Scheduled to appear are the Anishnabe Sobriety Singers, the co-host drum from Sault Ste. Marie, the Shedockii…
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The Georgina Island Day School was presented the "Young Heritage Leaders" certificate in achievement for their participation in planting more than 2,500 white pine trees on Georgina Island.
The children started by planting 1,000 white pine trees in 2000, then another 1,500 in 2002, reviving the forest that burned down on the island many years ago.
Ontario Heritage…
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If you aspire to a job in the media-whether magazine, radio, or TV-an event billed "Making It" was the latest must-do event for you. Billed as a creative summit, Making It more than lived up to its name.
On May 22 and 23, hopeful young journalists, producers and filmmakers crowded into the Colony Hotel in downtown Toronto to hear experienced media reps share their stories…
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Naomi Sayers of Garden River First Nation has earned the Silver award at the E-Spirit Business Plan Competition held in Halifax May 16. Sponsored by the Business Development Bank of Canada, the annual Internet-based competition encourages Aboriginal young people in grades 10 to 12 to experience entrepreneurship through hands-on learning.
Sayers' business concept, Etcetera…
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Connie Perron's $400-million claim against the federal government for rights lost as a result of Bill C-31 was restructured by an Ontario court judge.
The details of Ontario Court Justice Colin Campbell's decision were released May 9.
Perron and her lawyer, Mary Ebert, were seeking to have the case certified as a class action, so that all people who allege their…
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Aboriginal students from Northern Ontario may soon be able to complete their medical education without moving far from home, thanks to plans for a new medical school in the area.
The Northern Ontario Medical School (NOMS), the first new medical school in Canada in more than 30 years, will be divided between two campuses, one at Laurentian University in Sudbury, the other…
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On May 30, Native Earth Performing Arts-Canada's oldest professional Aboriginal theatre company-celebrated its twentieth birthday with "Best of," a fundraising evening featuring scenes from Native Earth's best-known plays, as well as a book launch. The celebration took place at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. A silent auction of donated packages and First Nations' artwork was…
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It was both one of the proudest and one of the saddest moments of Berdina Johnston's life.
Fighting back tears, the usually reticent Ojibway woman stood before a crowd of about 100 people at the dedication to the memory of her sister Rose Nadjiwon at the M'Wikwedong Native Cultural Resource Centre in Owen Sound.
The occasion was the dedication of a building on the…
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Wikwemikong Chief Walter Manitowabi is urging members of his community to focus on collective healing in the aftermath of an Ontario Court of Justice decision.
The long anticipated verdict came April 25 after 17 months of controversy and grief on the First Nation. Justice Gerald Michel sentenced Ecuadorian healer Juan Uyunkar to a 12-month conditional sentence followed by…
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Sheshegwaning First Nation, on the western tip of Manitoulin Island, is investigating quarrying as a new means of economic development.
The band entered into an agreement last year, currently being renegotiated, with Architectural Stone, a well-established stone company headquartered in the Sudbury area.
"Architectural Stone approached the band last year,"…