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What may well prove to be a record attendance saw more than 40,000 people attend the Lac St. Anne Pilgrimage from July 25 to 30,
Less than one hour's drive northwest of Edmonton, the religious gathering of the faithful attracts people from all over the country and even Europe. With a mostly Aboriginal crowd, the pilgrimage is considered to be one of the largest religious…
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People and Places
Oki. How has everyone been? I know, we haven't spoke for the longest time. I have been keeping myself pretty busy, going from powwow to powwow. Most of the summer I have been just travelling in and around the Edmonton area.
Let me start with the first powwow I visited, Poundmaker Lodge 25th anniversary powwow. Well, it turned out pretty good, but…
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Terrying About
Tansi!
Sure great seeing lot of my friends and acquaintances while on the road this summer. I hope that you, like I, get home safely whenever and wherever you travel.
o At the tender age of 7, Drew Siltala is already a hero. The Grade 2, Ben Calf Robe School student pulled one year-old Jacqueline Cook from sure death when the toddler fell into…
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Mount Everest is a long. long way from the Sucker Creek Reserve in
northern Alberta but the world's tallest mountain is where Laurie Gaucher is heading in the spring of the year 2000 as part of the Native American Alpine Team.
The team, assembled by Gaucher, will be the first comprised of North and Central American and New Zealand First People to climb to the top…
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Anne McLellan, Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General released $168,000 in funding to Edmonton-based Communicating Power Incorporated on July 7.
The funding will assist 11 young women in developing their business plans in the Young Woman's Entrepreneurial Program. The project runs from March 31, to Dec. 31, and will prepare the students to recognize their…
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Gordon Wolfe is a jack of all trades. So nothing suits him better than owning and operating a company like G.W. Enterprises. But Wolfe isn't content to just put the business on cruise control.
G.W. Enterprises, located on the Ermineskin Reserve in Hobbema, initially opened in April 1992 as a general contracting firm. Wolfe started the company with a small bank loan and…
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A federal court judge has struck down a challenge by environmentalists and Aboriginal groups to stop the proposed Cheviot Coal Mine from starting up operations just outside Jasper National Park and on land used by a Native community.
The environmental coalition has immediately planned to appeal the decision, but it will be continuing the challenge without the help of two…
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Calgary's top cop was honored with the Blackfoot name "Blue Bird" by Pikuni Nation Elder Joe Crowshoe at a naming ceremony held at the Calgary Stampede's Indian Village on July 11.
Crowshoe had promised a traditional name to Chief-of-Police Christine Silverberg when he transferred ownership of the Calgary City Police tipi to her at last year's Calgary Police Service…
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Across the province, thousands of people took part in Aboriginal Day celebrations on June 21 and during the week leading up to the special day. From small, quiet lunches to an attempt to organize the world's largest round dance, the activities varied depending on the location. In Alberta's two largest cities, the activities leading up to the specially designated day drew more…
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A mix of traditional and spiritual ceremonies and the recalling of political history were the focal points of the Cree Nations Gathering at Saddle Lake First Nations from June 23 to 25.
The three-day event given the Cree name Nehiyaw Pimatisiwin, (Cree way of life) was intended to gather Cree people from across Canada and the United States for discussions on forming a Cree…
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Graduates of the Native Artisan Program at Lac La Biche's Alberta Vocational College completed their school year with an act of goodwill.
A large mural depicting a traditional feast was hand-crafted by the six graduates of the program.
Students Gloria Bearhead, Patrina DeBruyne, Jackie Rennie, Mae Cardinal, Christine Lapratt and Patsy Jackson, presented the mural…
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The friendship centres in Pincher Creek and Calgary have many similarities, despite the difference in their locations.
Calgary, with a population of more than 700,000 people, offers those looking for Native culture and education a three storey facility on the edge of the Chinatown district in the heart of the city centre. In Pincher Creek, with a head count of just less…
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It's a trip that 25 Grades 5 and 6 students at Napi Playground Elementary School on the Peigan reserve are not likely to forget. The students, with 10 chaperones, including principal Gayle Strikes With A Gun, teachers Margaret Thomas, Sheena Jackson, and Elder Elsie Crow Shoe, took their classroom on the road - all the way to Ottawa to see the workings of the nation's capital…
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Not bronze . . . Not Silver . . . Gold!
That's what the team that worked to create the Syncrude Canada Gallery of Aboriginal Culture received on June 16.
Almost 50 people on the gallery team, including, Fort McMurray's Pete Ladouceur, Brocket's Reg Crowshoe, Rita Marten from Fort Chipewyan, Russell Willier from High Prairie and even Alberta Sweetgrass writer Terry…
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Terrying About
Tansi!
Folks all over the country were celebrating National Aboriginal Day from June 19 to 21, and the province's capital sure did do it up in style. Special thanks and congrats to co-ordinators Jane Woodward and Heritage Canada's Val Kaufman. Super job folks!
o Despite the low turnout at the Dreamspeakers Festival, the entertainment was very…