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The 1999 North American Indigenous Games will not be hosted at Fargo, North Dakota.
The planned Fargo version of the games was officially trashed by a decision of the NAIG council executive meeting in Fargo on Oct. 10.
"It is sad council had to make this choice but, for the sake of the games, council had to do something," said council secretary Roy Desjarlais, who…
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It was a highly successful Sixth Annual Dreamcatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference hosted by Edmonton's Grant MacEwan Community College Child and Youth Care Program.
Entitled The Heart of Our Nations: The Family, the popular conference attracted about 1,500 delegates from one end of the country to the other, including the northern territories.
The conference proper…
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At a formal ceremony in October at the Alexander First Nation Community Hall, the governments of Canada and Alberta and the Alexander First Nation announced the settlement of a treaty land entitlement agreement.
The settlement will provide the Alexander First Nation with up to 15,140 additional acres of reserve land.
Jane Stewart, federal minister of Indian Affairs…
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On Oct. 4, the town of Lac La Biche celebrated the 200th anniversary of the arrival of explorer David Thompson to the area, but no one forgot to honor the people that Thompson first encountered there, the Metis and First Nations.
"Two hundred years is a long time, but I think what people have to realize is that before David Thompson arrived here, there were Metis people…
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Just days after receiving a trophy from the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association for being the best of the best in junior steer riding, 11-year-old Ryan McDonald was riding with the best at the Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton.
McDonald, a Grade 7 student at the Caslan School on the Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement, 200 km north of Edmonton, was Alberta's top rider in the…
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Tansi!
Christmas is just around the corner. Soon all those shopping centres are going to be one huge traffic jam!
I need your HELP! I am still trying to locate the whereabouts of Jim Thunder. If anyone knows where he is or knows a relative of his that I can contact, please call or write to me in care of Sweetgrass paper. Thanks. (403-455-2700; 15001-112 Ave.,…
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Country and western music fans were recently treated to a show from one of the finest performers in music at the biggest show of the year.
On Oct. 15, more than 14,000 fans converged on Edmonton's Sky Reach Centre to catch four class acts, including the dynamic and popular Terri Clark.
Clark, 1997's Canadian Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year,…
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Here's a refreshing new theatrical group that does what comes naturally. In other words, members of Big Sky Theatre ad lib a lot. This became more than apparent in their Oct. 26 to 30 debut of Dance Between The Worlds, a comedy drama with lovable, laughable snippets that stream through a production that deals with spirituality, love, hate, trauma, arguments, and co-operation, as…
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The annual Indian Arts and Crafts Christmas Sale and Show that has been a popular feature in the Edmonton region for some years will not be returning, at least not this year, says co-ordinator Martha Campiou.
Usually held at the convention centre in downtown Edmonton, the event has suffered financially over the past few years and just couldn't come together this time…
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Sometimes people refer to him as Starvin' Marvin. Like so many others who dabble in the profession of arts and crafts, he has had his hungrier moments in the up and down business of art sales.
Marvin Bourque's carving is probably known as second only to the work of master carver Sonny MacDonald. And it is no strange coincidence that both of them hail from Fort Chipewyan,…
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It's not often that an art piece not fashioned from canvas, paper or pressed cardboard ever gets selected as the winning entry of an art contest, but that is precisely what happened at this year's annual Peace Hills Trust Annual Art Contest.
In this, its 16th year, judges selected a contemporary entry crafted by Saskatchewan contestant Calvin Sand. The 49-year-old Cree…
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When tourists travel to southern Alberta next season, they'll get a chance for a true glimpse into the past - and it won't be at a museum or in interpretive centres.
"I've seen tourists looking for something extra when it comes to Indians," said Pat Provost, who, along with wife Jenny Bruised Head, operate Sundance Traditional Tours. "This provides the live stuff where you…
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There were times in the last three years when Yvonne Lapatak thought about handing in her books and giving up her dream of becoming a psychologist.
She smiles as she recalls the times when she would look at assignments and wonder if she would be able to find the words needed to write a 3,000 word term paper, or the times when she would wait until her grandchildren were…
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It was an evening about people, successful people, and in particular, about the Aboriginal Soaring Eagles, 17 Community Social Work Program students who graduated from their two-year course through Metis Child and Family Services in Edmonton.
The Oct. 17 graduation ceremony at Alberta Vocational College proved a moving occasion for graduates, some of whom thought they…
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What was touted as a great day for Mount Royal College's Native students was marked by their absence at the grand opening of the Native Centre on Nov. 4.
Native students were not among the four people who cut the ribbon to officially open the centre and that angered a member of the Native student society, the Four Directions Lodge.
"Of course I'm disappointed,"…