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Beatrice Love is still considered a relative newcomer to the music scene.
But the 25-year-old Cree singer, who is from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation, is starting to get some more attention.
A recent career boost was being nominated for this year’s Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards.
Love, who started her musical career two years ago after winning a talent competition…
With an astonishing 15 per cent of Siksika residents suffering from diabetes, Melvin (Tyler) White, CEO for Siksika Health Services, knew something had to be done to prevent kidney disease or slow down its progression.
Now, eight years after Alberta Health Services brought its weekly renal outreach clinic to Siksika First Nation, over 100 people are being seen.
“The need to…
The significance Aboriginals can play when it comes to filling various apprenticeship positions prompted the Wood Buffalo Apprenticeship Forum to add a fifth sub-committee to the organization.
“First Nations have always been a significant and valuable part of this community,” said Glenn van’t Wout, dean of trades and heavy industrial division at Keyano College, located in Fort McMurray…
Art is an important reflection of Indigenous culture through the ages. It tells the stories of the Aboriginal people and their traditions in a manner that transcends the written word. In Alberta, that work is celebrated in annual travelling exhibitions.
Each of the specialized First Nations exhibits features a theme of its own, is curated and displayed in the north central and northeast…
“If I build it, will you come?” is the question Kimber Norbury-Sulin asked.
“Build” may be a strange word to use when Norbury-Sulin, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder education program coordinator at Lethbridge College, is talking about a virtual community of practice, but come they have and that includes those from isolated Aboriginal communities.
In January, the college launched…
Shell Canada partnered with the national charitable organization Actua to host a science, technology, engineering and mathematics camp in Fort MacKay in August.
The science camp focused on the importance and recognition of science, engineering and technology among the youth population by engaging them in hands on experiences, both exciting and dynamic while, at the same time, teaching…
With 113 full members and 153 associate members, the North-eastern Alberta Aboriginal Business Association is having a mini-boom of its own within the geographical confines of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.
“This past year we have really been picking up more memberships than usual,” said NAABA general manager Debbie Hahn from her office in Fort McMurray.
“We started…
Kainai Elder Harold Healy, decked out in a new red Wrangler shirt with white stitching heralding the Stampede’s Centenary, has seen many changes for the Calgary Stampede.
Healy, 86, a former steer rider and calf roper, feels that some aspects of the rodeo should return. “It’s not the same . . . no wild cow milking, wild horse race or buffalo riding,” he complained.
He has also…
Indian Village thrives at Stampede
Tipi-raising racers pull canvas around poles as a demonstration at Indian Village at the Calgary Stampede. The Stampede celebrated 100 years this past July.
Guards charged with assault
Three guards working at Alberta Children’s Hospital have been charged with assault causing bodily harm…
Ashley Deschambault with 250 goodie-filled backpacks given away as welcome gifts to Aboriginal students at Tawow, hosted in the Education Building at the University of Alberta.
Aboriginal students introduced to university community
“The (University of Alberta) is so large it’s easy to get shuffled and lost,” said third-year nursing…
Led by Commissioner Edna Elias of Nunavut, this past May, five courageous women set out on a 224-km trek from Bay Chimo to Cambridge Bay to raise money for the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton.
“It was in my bucket list to someday do a long distance walk,” said Elias.
When she lost a younger sister to breast cancer, Elias was inspired. Her sister had been treated at the Cross…
The Edmonton Aboriginal Seniors Centre is moving into the second phase of its Legacy of Our Elders project.
Wil Belcourt, the centre’s executive director, is one of the first to admit that even amongst today’s adult population, there are many who have not heard the stories, legends or their own cultural heritage from their predecessors.
“This huge void needs to be filled and that…
How can you portray the tragedy of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in a 60-second film? That is the challenge facing co-directors Jesse Gouchey and Xstine Cook.
Earlier this year, the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto put out a call to Aboriginal artists across the country, looking for five one-minute films about murdered and missing women in Canada. Gouchey…
A vision, support from Alberta First Nations, and blueprints for a ceremonial lodge are all reasons why it is time for the Manitou Stone to be repatriated.
“Somebody had a vision last winter and they asked me if they could go for it and I said yes, sure … take another run at getting the rock out of that museum,” said Vincent Steinhauer, president of the Blue Quills First Nation College…
Bluebird Chloe Mustooch, 20, of Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, with two of her four panels which will be displayed at intersections along 111 street in south Edmonton between the Southgate and Century Park LRT stations. Artists Aaron Paquette and Jason Carter joined Mustooch in creating 15 panels for display. The $50,000 project was the result of a partnership between the Edmonton Arts…