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After taking a year off in 2013, the organizers of the 5thAnnual Turtle Awards came back fully excited to recognize Aboriginal achievement in Central Alberta.
“It’s really important to me to acknowledge the support of the community. It really is a celebration of Aboriginal people by the community, and this year was all about looking forward,” said Tanya Schur, executive director of the…
Over 20 First Nations and non-Aboriginal performers, dancers, musicians and poets are featured in the World Premiere of Making Treaty 7.
Making Treaty 7 world premiere
Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society launched its theatrical presentation at Calgary’s Heritage Park Historical Village on Sept. 11, 13 and 14. “We Are All Treaty People” marks 137 years after…
“The difficult was easy, the impossible took a little longer,” said Father Paul Hefferenan in his 1995 eulogy to Canada’s First Female Indian Act Chief, Elsie Marie Knott of the Curve Lake First Nation in southeastern Ontario. Chief Knott, elected in 1952, who served for eight years in this pioneering role, is the touchstone of Cora Voyageur’s groundbreaking study of First Nations Women Chiefs…
Dance, dance, dance
Dancers were among the offerings from the Aboriginal Pavilion hosted by the Canadian Native Friendship Centre at this year’s Heritage Festival. Visitors to the annual event were able to steep themselves in culture and Native food, which included bannock, bison bannock burgers, buffalo skewers and mint tea.
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Old Earth Productions, an Aboriginal dramatic collective, is producing plays about social issues, featuring Aboriginal themes and actors.
“Old Earth Productions utilizes theatre as a tool for creating social change,” said Executive Director Darlene Auger. “We are interested in gathering and telling the stories of local Native people, to create public awareness on pressing issues.”
…More than half of the First Nations in Alberta will not be meeting with the provincial government to discuss the new Aboriginal consultation policy.
“We want to be clear, this is not about being against resource development. This is about policies that directly affect our First Nations being created for us without meaningful participation. We are leaders, elected officials that govern…
Les Cardinal, of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, wrote “Enough is enough” as his contribution to a mural that has travelled along with a totem pole that was erected at the Beaver Lake Cree Nation in September. The Lummi people, based in Washington State, gifted the totem pole as a symbol of shared responsibility to BLCN on the front lines of the expansion of the Canadian tar sands.…
First Nations and Métis are not taking lightly the opportunity they have been given to talk to both the National Energy Board and Kinder Morgan representatives. And they want to ensure that neither the NEB nor the pipeline company take their responsibility to listen lightly either.
“So we see negative impacts of development like this and we have relayed important information to you to…
It was 1940, in the dog days of summer, less than a year after the Kikino Métis Settlement – then known as Good Fish Lake Colony Number Seven - was established on March 29, 1939, near Lac La Biche.
“I remember when we came over those hills on the old trail, and we saw the houses in the hamlet,” said Raymond Bellerose, then a 16 year-old boy traveling with his family. “There were just a…
Throughout the months of June, July and August in 2013, Irfan Chaudry, a University of Alberta sociology PhD candidate, tracked tweets in six major cities, including Calgary and Edmonton, and discovered that racism is being expressed through the use of Twitter.
“In Canada, we sweep it under the rug and don’t like to talk about it,” he said. “Twitter provides a different avenue to…
A new initiative between the Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Municipality of Wood Buffalo, is showing great success in dealing with the stray dog problem in Fort Chipewyan.
A temporary shelter has been set up and an animal control officer was hired to round up the strays, with the intention of getting them back home or finding them new homes.
Cathleen O’Brien is the is the…
Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions will provide a grant of $1.7-million over seven years to University of Lethbridge Faculty of Health Sciences researcher Dr. Cheryl Currie to aid in her research to gain a better understanding of the health needs of rural and urban Aboriginal populations. Currie, an assistant professor of public health, has been selected as the AIHS Translational Health…
The Assembly of First Nations National Executive Committee is supporting legal action undertaken by Sucker Creek First Nation, Ermineskin Cree Nation, Kainai Nation and the Tsuu T’ina Nation against the federal government on unsafe drinking water. “Potable water is a serious issue in Alberta as we cannot even drink water from pumps or natural springs. This situation is unacceptable and must be…
The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has pulled out of the regulatory hearing into the proposed $3 billion TransCanada Corp.’s Grand Rapids crude pipeline. In a news release, Chief Allan Adam cited the “impossible position” the First Nation was put in by the Alberta Energy Regulator, which is holding its first hearing since replacing the Energy Resources Conservation Board. Adam said the AER…
The Stoney Nakoda Nation has signed a joint venture agreement with Hong Kong-based Huatong Petrochemical Holdings Ltd. to explore and develop oil and gas deposits on about 49,000 hectares of Stoney Nation lands. Huatong will provide all necessary funding and Nakoda Oil & Gas Inc. will act as the primary operator for the joint venture. “The magnitude of this new agreement between Huatong…