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Health workers from Aboriginal communities across Canada gathered for a health conference hosted by the Calgary Region 4 Aboriginal Health Council held Oct. 19 to 21.
Inuit from the eastern Arctic, Micmacs from the Maritimes, southern Tutchone from the Yukon and other representatives mixed with local First Nation and Metis participants to share ideas and discuss ways to…
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The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society is powering up the north with a new regional radio transmitter that should provide northern residents unfettered access to its radio programming.
Gone will be the dead zones between communities along the south shores of Lesser Slave Lake, said Bert Crowfoot, society CEO, a non-profit group that operates CFWE, The Native Perspective, a…
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Maggie Deranger, program assistant for the Aboriginal Educational Centre at Grant MacEwan Community College, said at the centre's open house on Oct. 2 that the resource is for the whole First Nations community, not just Grant MacEwan students.
"We don't want to put any walls up," she said.
The centre tries to balance off the impersonal atmosphere that often is…
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The main lobby of Alberta Vocational College came alive on Oct. 9 with the sounds of traditional Native drumming and singing and with students in search of books. The students and staff at AVC were drawn to a book giveaway by the sound of Thundering Echo, a Native drum group who helped AVC make a unique connection for its students who were celebrating literacy during Reading…
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How appropriate it seemed that one of Canada's finest state-of-the-art Aboriginal schools was officially opened on the warmest and sunniest day of the fall.
Just as warm were the greetings and congratulations from adults and children alike as the Samson Cree Nation at Hobbema cut the ribbon to officially open the Nipisihkopahk Secondary School on Oct. 22.
Built at…
Model appearances
Northern Styles is a production and promotions company based in Edmonton. The group of youth entrepreneurs produce shows featuring performers, artists and fashion plays.
Northern Styles most recent show took place Sept. 11 at Edmonton's Hyland's Club.
The dinner show featured five-year-old singing sensation Jared McAllister, Native flute player Eagle…
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A small group of irate First Nation members met with Reform Party MP Myron Thompson in Airdrie on Sept. 18 to give him a letter calling for Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart's resignation. Jane Stewart is the main foe for the Wildrose MP and the group from Alberta and Saskatchewan First Nations he met with.
Thompson admits the letter is only a symbolic gesture…
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Terrying About
Tansi!
Now that the summer powwows have come and gone, we are fast entering the fall-winter and season, and that of course means round dances and more round dances.
? One of the first to kick into gear was the Oct. 2 Red Road Healing Society Round Dance in Edmonton which drew a capacity crowd that enjoyed the evening. It included a feast and…
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People and Places
Oki.
I haven't done too much traveling lately, but I did go to the Drumheller Institution to attend their 30th annual powwow.
I didn't know what to expect. I was nervous, but as soon as I arrived, they gave me the royal treatment.
They had 30 dancers at the powwow. The drummers were inmates. The attendance was the most they had ever…
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Alberta lost what is believed to have been its last traditional chief when Harry Gabriel Chonkolay passed away on July 30 in the Dene Tha community of Chateh (Assumption) in the northwestern part of the province.
In 1938, Chonkolay was selected by community Elders to be chief of his people. He was selected for his courage, honesty and strong work ethic. He remained chief…
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The subject of capitalism is not what you'd expect to hear at a lecture on Aboriginal health care.
But John Kim Bell, the president of the Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, did just that in his guest lecture to University of Alberta students in the Aboriginal Health Care Careers Program in the Faculty of Medicine and Oral Health Sciences on Sept. 28.
"In Aboriginal…
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If you ever want proof that hard work and a little luck pays off, just ask Joseph Sillito. The 26-year-old Metis Grant MacEwan Community College student was recently awarded with a $1,500 scholarship from CN Rail. The generous assistance is his third scholarship.
In addition to CN's Native Educational Awards Program scholarship which supports Native students pursuing post…
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Jed Roberts, a nine-year veteran with the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos uses just as much energy wrangling with monster-sized football players on the line of scrimmage as he does teaching Native youth about the importance of self worth and education.
#Roberts, a defensive lineman has traveled to hundreds of schools and community centres across the province making presentations to…
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The Alberta Sports, Parks, Recreation and Wildlife Foundation is walking around with its chest puffed out just a little more this fall thanks to what it bills as a successful conclusion to this year's Future Leaders Program.
The 1998 program was in more than a dozen Aboriginal communities in Alberta. Programs included sports, recreation and outdoor adventures for Aboriginal…
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A shortage of housing on the Tsuu T'ina Nation, west of Calgary, has forced more than 100 young families to move into vacated houses on a former Canadian Forces Base situated on the reserve.
The Harvie Barracks, which sits on land leased to the Department of National Defence until the year 2000, is now home to dozens of families who said they couldn't find anywhere else to…