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The ink is barely dry on a fledgling new partnership between Alberta Health Services and Rupertsland Institute, Métis Centre of Excellence, but both parties are optimistic about what it will mean in the future.
The goal is to create new training and education opportunities for Métis students who want to enter careers in the field of healthcare. While it is too early for specifics, the…
Award-winning musician Clayton Bellamy wants all children to chase their dreams.
To that end, Bellamy has launched the Everyone’s A Dreamer school tour.
The event, named after his current single and album released in March, is a 60-minute upbeat performance featuring music, videos as well as Q and A sessions. The message throughout the event is to have students follow their…
Being part of the environment as a youngster translated into caring for the environment as an adult and has earned Kuni Albert a place on the wall of her alma mater.
On May 12, Albert became a member of Keyano College’s Distinguished Alumni Wall of Fame during Keyano’s 46th Convocation.
“It was a bit of a shock at first,” said Albert of the recognition. “I did not expect such a…
Local author Wayne Arthurson already has a few reasons to celebrate, and he’s hoping for one more.
A Killing Winter, his third novel – and second to feature journalist/gambler/investigator Leo Desroches – was released in April and is already receiving positive reviews.
Then, in early May, Arthurson received his official Indian status. He is now ready to take the next step of…
The Rubaboo Festival, into its fourth year, was started by Alberta Aboriginal Arts co-directors Christine Sokaymoh and Ryan Cunningham.
Festival hits fourth year of celebrating Aboriginal arts
The Rubaboo Festival is a multi disciplinary arts festival, showcasing Aboriginal theatre, music, dance, art, food, family and youth events,…
For the past 32 years Elder Harley Bastien of the Piikani Nation has been retracing the footsteps of his ancestors throughout southwestern Alberta, discovering traces of his ancestral past including tipi rings, pictographs, cairns, stone effigies, old kill sites and vision quest sites. After documenting his findings with photographs and recording their locations with GPS, he brings his…
Danielle Smith is making a commitment to Alberta’s Aboriginal people: she will be asking hard hitting questions in the Legislature and their issues will not be pushed to the back burner.
Smith, leader of the Wildrose Party, the province’s new Official Opposition, has taken on the critic’s role for the Aboriginal Relations portfolio.
“For me this is a vital role for the premier…
Stardale girls model fashions by Mealan and hats by Zsa Zsa.
Urban Aboriginal girls showcase local fashion
With family, friends and a lunch hour business crowd on hand to cheer them on, young Aboriginal women participating in the Stardale Charity’s “Honouring the Girls Stories” program exhibited their poise, elegance and confidence…
Robin Campbell, new minister for Aboriginal Relations, says the province’s relationship with First Nations is “government to government.”
“I think that’s an important factor that a lot of people forget. First Nations are a government onto themselves. So we as a government of Alberta have to recognize that, have to respect that and sit down with all the chiefs and come up with a plan…
When other residential school survivors were attending hearings and receiving payments through the Independent Assessment Program, members of the Blood Tribe who had lawyers with the Calgary firm of Blott and Company, weren’t seeing any movement.
“People on our reserve were complaining that there was no action happening with (their IAP) claims,” said Rick Tailfeathers, with the Chief…
Shell shareholders were “really shocked” when numerous activists “bombarded” Royal Dutch Shell executives with questions during Shell’s annual general meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, which was also broadcast live via satellite to shareholders in London.
“Going to the AGM, it magnified the fact that these multi-billion dollar, multi-national companies have a very pivotal place in…
Chiefs are not surprised that a report from the United Nations special rapporteur contains harsh criticism when it comes to the difficulties First Nations have in accessing food.
“Some of us still live off the land, like the trappers. You need water to live, you need the land and it comes all with the hunting, the fishing, the subsistence living,” said Treaty 6 Grand Chief Cameron…
Louise Halfe is among eight distinguished recipients to be awarded honorary degrees at the Wilfrid Laurier University upcoming convocation ceremonies. Halfe, also known as Sky Dancer, is an award-winning writer and poet. Raised on the Saddle Lake reserve, she earned a BA in social work from the University of Regina and a certificate in drugs and alcohol counselling from the Nechi Training,…
The Dene Tha’ First Nation expects full consultation on shale gas development in the Horn River Basin in northeastern B.C. now that the Consultation Protocol Agreement with the BC Oil and Gas Commission and Ministry of Energy and Mines has expired. Under that agreement, BC held that it did not have to consult with Dene Tha’ because of the geographical scope of the “consultation area.” With the…
Activist and former Senate page Brigitte DePape was in Fort McMurray recently joining a delegation of Peruvian Indigenous leaders on a fact-finding mission about the oilsands. The visit was organized by Amazon Watch and Public Interest Alberta. The goal of the visit is to discover how the environment, economy and people — particularly Aboriginal people — in the Wood Buffalo region have been…