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Ask and you will get. That is what this year’s The Works is saying.
“We started the program for Canadian Aboriginal Arts three years ago because there were so many Aboriginals in downtown Edmonton who would come up and say, ‘Where is the Aboriginal art?’” said Dawn Saunders Dahl, manager of The Works Art & Design Festival.
The largest outdoor art festival will showcase the…
Seeing homes as assets rather than liabilities has changed the way of living on the Piikani First Nation.
Natoshia Bastien, director and general manager of Piikani Nation Housing and the Ky-naak-ku-kan Housing Corporation, has been rewarded with many successes for the housing management, development and renewal expertise she has brought to the community.
In 2007 the Piikani Nation…
Federal funding has allowed GoForth Institute to modify its successful online entrepreneurial education program to meet Aborginal needs.
With 38,000 known and registered Aboriginal businesses in Canada, and the Aboriginal population the fastest growing in Canada, GoForth has developed a unique online training that is building a bridge for the Aboriginal business community to join the…
The Dene Suline of the Cold Lake First Nation is taking court action against the provincial government, claiming that “adequate consultation” was not carried out before redevelopment of the English Bay Provincial recreation area was given government go-ahead.
“It’s the old story of third party encroachment, the extension of a provincial campground without consultation with the Cold Lake…
Clean-up at the site of the largest crude oil spill in three decades in Alberta has gotten underway again after being stalled for 10 days due to raging wildfires east and north of Slave Lake.
“In the early stages people were evacuated from the immediate area because the fire was moving very quickly, but there’s no reports from the ground that the site (of the oil spill) is actively…
Rumours that it could be up to seven weeks before residents can return to Slave Lake have Sheena Phillips believing that more people will take the Métis Urban and Capital Housing Corporation up on its offer to house people in existing MUHC units around the province.
“Even those who can get back in (to Slave Lake), what’s left? There’s no more rental accommodations out there. They’ll…
Trudy Yellow Fly certainly has a passion for sports.
And the 34-year-old Blackfoot, who is a member of the Siksika First Nation, is thrilled her job enables her to pass on that love and encourage as many others to be active.
Since 2009, Yellow Fly has worked as a sport development co-ordinator for the Indigenous Sports Council of Alberta. This position sees her performing a number of…
Reno and Joshua Nash have come through some tough times in their young lives, yet the brothers continue to make a positive impression in the world around them. Both demonstrate leadership qualities in school, in sports and at home, and both are past recipients of Alberta Aboriginal Youth Achievement Awards.
The boys attend high school in Calgary and are among the older sons in a family…
A long-time University of Alberta professor has been granted an Aboriginal name in a special ceremony to mark his contributions to Indigenous communities.
“It’s wonderful. It’s the most extraordinary thing that has ever happened to me,” said Earle Waugh, director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Health at the U of A in Edmonton.
Waugh, 73, has dedicated his career to Indigenous…
An administrative decision by Health Canada is not allowing expectant mothers from the Little Red River Cree Nation to choose where they have their babies, say both band officials and health workers.
Because of the distance between the communities of John D’Or, Fox Lake and Garden River and the nearest hospital, pregnant women are routinely flown to High Level or Fort Vermilion to give…
The saying goes that it takes a community to raise a child, but it doesn’t need to end there. It may also take a community to help adults learn.
NorQuest College and Enoch Cree Nation are taking that concept to heart with a new literacy pilot project that will help adult band members improve their literacy skills.
Those new literacy skills will in turn help prepare participants…
A group of students from the University of Calgary took learning to the next level during their mid-February reading week break.
Participants in the Canadian Roots Northern Exchange program spent time at the Enoch and Sucker Creek First Nations and Gift Lake Métis Settlement, engaging Elders and community members, gaining an understanding into the diversity of Aboriginal communities in…
A program that invokes cultural identity is being used to teach children of the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation how to remain toxin-free.
NimiIcinohabi is an innovative and culturally appropriate substance abuse prevention program that began as a pilot project and has now been turned into a three-year research project. Partnering with the First Nation are the University of Alberta and Dr.…
A program that has flourished in Alberta since 2002 is continuing to enhance the lives of families in urban, rural, Aboriginal and remote communities. With hundreds of community members trained to deliver Roots of Empathy, it has reached more than 64,000 children throughout the province.
“In the First Nations community we use the baby as a teacher because the children learn from the…
Believing that the school setting can positively influence the lifelong physical, social and mental health of students, the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health created the APPLE program in 2008. APPLE, or the Alberta Project Promoting active Living and healthy Eating, supports positive lifestyles by urging students to eat healthy lunches and nutritious snacks, and by engaging in…