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Woodland Cree Chief William Whitehead is contemplating court action if Plains Midstream Canada starts operating Rainbow pipeline now that the company has received the go-ahead from the Energy Resources Conservation Board.
“We’ve talked to our lawyers already. Our lawyers are going to send (Plains) a letter saying, No, you can’t do that. You can’t turn on the line before the clean up is…
Input from First Nations in two drafts of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan has seen little movement in the document that will go before Cabinet.
“Now it’s time for us to start putting legal action in place. We’re going forward with a case. We’re not holding back,” said Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.
The provincial government released LARP in late…
Dean Lindsay may have been shut out from the nomination process but he hasn’t been shut down by the Métis Nation of Alberta.
“The more I do, it seems the bigger the wall is,” said Lindsay, who claimed the nomination process was unfairly skewed so his name would not appear on the ballot. “They think I’m done, they’re wrong.”
Lindsay intended to challenge Bev New as president of…
Upon accepting his certificate of completion from the Grande Prairie Regional College’s Aboriginal Student Job Shadow Program, graduate Shawn Randle shook hands with Joan Goldhawk of Alberta Employment and Immigration and Lorna Thiessen, education director with Western Cree Tribal Council.
GPRC shadow program gives much needed experience
Eleven…
Celebrations bring with it good food
Nora Yellowknee prepares food at the traditional camp fires as August Yellowknee and family look on and visit. It was all part of Bigstone Cree Day celebrations in July in Wabasca.
Photo: Denis Carnochan
After two years of hard work, 11 students have graduated from the Old Sun Community College in the school’s first ever Aboriginal Practical Nurse Diploma Program. The training was offered on the Siksika First Nation campus in partnership with Bow Valley College.
“Instructors from Bow Valley came and showed us how to utilize everything in there, to teach us better. From what we learned in…
A new program that will build the artistic integrity and leadership skills of Aboriginal youth in Edmonton has been announced.
The OtiNikan Aboriginal Leadership Academy, to be operated by the Centre for Race and Culture, will put highly performing youth into arts-oriented activities.
Christine Sokaymoh Frederick, a prominent Métis artist, is program coordinator for OtiNikan,…
They were nowhere near as big as organizers had hoped for.
Yet Allan Ross, the executive director of the Alberta Indigenous Games, said the plan is still to stage the multi-sports competition again next year and on an ongoing basis.
The inaugural AIG was held July 17-21, with venues in Edmonton, Leduc and the Enoch Cree Nation.
The games attracted about 400 athletes, a far…
Following a marathon day of fastball action an Alberta-based team came up just a run shy of defending its national title.
The Red Nation Jets, however, did win some hardware, settling for second place in the women’s division at this year’s Canadian Native Fastball Championships.
The Jets, based out of the Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, were edged 5-4 by the Regina-club AMI…
Quinn Crawler has deep roots in the Stoney community and can speak of a time when there was unity on the nation. In the 1970s, tribal leadership was under Chief Sitting Winds, Frank Kaquitts, the first and only chief of all three Stoney bands and his 12 councillors. No distinction was made between the Bearspaw, Chiniki and Wesley bands that make up the Stoney Nakoda Nation.
“You said you…
A federal court judge’s decision to overrule David Bearspaw’s extension as chief is clear indication that Stoney tribal custom was not recognized, said Elder Bill McLean, 90, former Chief and the oldest man on the Stoney reserve.
McLean visited his grandson Bearspaw the morning after he was first elected and told him, “I know and have experience of how hard it is to become a leader. You…
The Stardale Women’s Group Charity has resurrected an ancient art form of the West Coast Salish women giving it contemporary significance as a learning tool for young Aboriginal women.
Surrounded by the Sacred Weft collection in the Native Historical Gallery at the Glenbow Museum, on June 25, young Aboriginal women participating in Stardale’s after school program, “Honouring the Women’…
A “tar sands group” has come forward with the money needed to pay court fees after the provincial and federal governments “added insult to injury,” said Ron Lameman, advisor for the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, and insisted that the First Nation ante up $5,000 to pay for a failed attempt to be represented in court in October by a law firm from the United Kingdom.
The services of Michael…
The return to power of Darcy Dixon to chief of the Bearspaw First Nation is one more change in a long line of controversy surrounding the Stoney Nakoda Nation.
In an election forced by a federal court judge, Dixon defeated incumbent David Bearspaw by a vote of 327 to 222 in an 80 per cent voters’ turnout at the polls Aug. 9. All four sitting councillors also lost.
Dixon served in…
When Eva Menguinis took the title of Calgary Stampede Princess she had no idea that she would be joined by other royalty at this year’s event.
“Meeting the Duke and Duchess was the biggest highlight of my year,” said Menguinis, who is a member of the Tsuu T’ina Nation, but represents all five tribes of Treaty 7 at the Indian Village.
Prince William and his new wife Kate made a…