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Aboriginal college, university and high school students who want to do scientific research in Aboriginal communities will be able to receive funding from the National Institute of Aboriginal People's Health in Ottawa.
The Aboriginal Capacity and Development Research Environment (ACADRE) centre has four centres in Canada, with the newest one located in the Human Ecology…
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Aboriginal college, university and high school students who want to do scientific research in Aboriginal communities will be able to receive funding from the National Institute of Aboriginal People's Health in Ottawa.
The Aboriginal Capacity and Development Research Environment (ACADRE) centre has four centres in Canada, with the newest one located in the Human Ecology…
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The definition of what is a Metis person and the possibility of ballot box elections for the Metis National Council (MNC) were two red-hot topics being discussed at the MNC annual general assembly in Edmonton on Sept. 27 and 28.
Hundreds of Metis people from across the province and from B.C., Saskatchewan and Ontario gathered for the two-day assembly.
According to…
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The definition of what is a Metis person and the possibility of ballot box elections for the Metis National Council (MNC) were two red-hot topics being discussed at the MNC annual general assembly in Edmonton on Sept. 27 and 28.
Hundreds of Metis people from across the province and from B.C., Saskatchewan and Ontario gathered for the two-day assembly.
According to…
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What started as a distant dream has become a reality for the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA), publishers of Alberta Sweetgrass and owner-operators of CFWE, the Native Perspective, an Aboriginal radio station that can be heard across the province.
Now the CFWE signal can be heard clearer and stronger than ever before in the Bonnyville/St. Paul area and for…
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What started as a distant dream has become a reality for the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA), publishers of Alberta Sweetgrass and owner-operators of CFWE, the Native Perspective, an Aboriginal radio station that can be heard across the province.
Now the CFWE signal can be heard clearer and stronger than ever before in the Bonnyville/St. Paul area and for…
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Grant MacEwan Community College city centre campus will once again play host to one of the largest Aboriginal youth gatherings in the world when the tenth annual Dreamcatcher Youth Conference is held Oct. 18 to 20.
With the theme "Celebrating Past, Present and Future Dreams," the conference will host more than 2,000 youth, presenters, chaperones and volunteers from…
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Non-profit organizations or treaty groups are encouraged to apply for community grants from the Alberta/N,W,T, chapter of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) for up to $50,000 per year for up to two years.
Efforts such as the CIBC Run for the Cure that takes place in many Canadian cities on Oct. 6 helps raise funds for both community projects and research to…
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Morning pipe ceremonies, sweatlodge ceremonies, healing circles and prayer each made up a part of the second annual Releasing and Reclaiming the Spirits of Residential School gathering at the Nechi Institute and Poundmakers Lodge held from Aug. 30 to Sept. 1.
The goal of the gathering was to honor former students of the Edmonton Indian Residential School many of whom…
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Morning pipe ceremonies, sweatlodge ceremonies, healing circles and prayer each made up a part of the second annual Releasing and Reclaiming the Spirits of Residential School gathering at the Nechi Institute and Poundmakers Lodge held from Aug. 30 to Sept. 1.
The goal of the gathering was to honor former students of the Edmonton Indian Residential School many of whom…
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It was a nail-biting experience for the Alberta's Metis people as numbers from 57 polling stations across Alberta started to roll in during the late evening of Sept. 3.
The 2002 general election for the Metis Nation of Alberta had voters across the province cast their ballots. Unofficial results provided by the Metis Nation saw incumbent Audrey Poitras of Elk Point…
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Audrey Poitras, the newly re-elected president of the Alberta Metis Association (MNA), grew up in northeastern Alberta in the community of Elk Point in a family of eight with a school teacher mother and a father who was a farmer.
Married for 36-years, (she has one son, a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren) she credits her husband for her decision to run for a third…
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An exhibition of paintings and drawings by eight of Alberta's most important First Nations artists opened at Prairie Art Gallery in Grande Prairie on Sept. 6.
On loan from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts are pieces by Dale Auger, Bruno Canadien, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Alex Janvier, George Littlechild, Frederick McDonald, Jane Ash Poitras and…
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Metis writer Jacqueline Guest is an award-winning author of children's sports books, but what makes Guest's books unique from others in the same genre is that in each of her books the main character is Aboriginal.
Guest's first book, titled Hat Trick came out in 1997. It is the story of a young girl, Leigh Aberdeen, whose parents are divorced. Her mother lives on Tsuu T'…
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Sitting on hay bales in the sunny backyard of historic Firkins House at Fort Edmonton Park, about a dozen children and their parents enjoyed the lively stories of days gone by.
Denise Miller told Native legends "from here and there" at the Storytelling Festival during the September long weekend.
Her family stories are full of energy, sound and grimaces. She jumps…