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Nearly 200 dancers competed in the 28th annual Odawa Competitive Powwow at the Ottawa Municipal Campground from May 28 to 30. They travelled to the nation's capital from across Ontario, and as far away as British Columbia, the Atlantic Provinces and Texas.
Ten drum groups attended from across Ontario and as far away as Nova Scotia and the communities of Waswanipi and…
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On May 7, Frontiers Foundation hosted a fund-raising dinner and roast for Lawrence Gladue in Toronto. Frontiers Foundation, an Aboriginal voluntary service organization now in its 39th year, has also written to the prime minister proposing that Gladue be appointed the next governor general of Canada.
Gladue, a Metis from northern Alberta, ran the Rural and Native Housing…
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Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle
Reproductive Rights, Environmental Health, Traditional Herbs and Remedies
Editors Charon Asetoyer, M.A., Katharine Cronk, Ph.D., Samanthi Hewakapuge, M.A.
Native American, Women's Health Education Resource Center, 2004
$32.95 (US) 322 pages (sc)
Among the proliferation of self-help, lay…
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As the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, James Bartleman has made mental health awareness one of his top priorities. Because of his efforts to help others by sharing his own experience with depression, the former foreign policy advisor to Jean Chretien has been awarded the Courage to Come Back Award. Bartleman, a member of Mjnikaning First Nation, and six others were honoured…
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Outward Bound Canada is putting new emphasis on Native programs and on recruiting Native staff this year.
The organization's courses develop and improve technical and leadership skills and teamwork in a wilderness setting.
It is a non-profit, charitable educational organization and independent school, begun in 1976 with programs aimed at educators and lovers of…
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The Milk International Children's Festival of the Arts, which ran from May 23 to 30 at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, featured eight days of entertainment for children. Programming included live music, dance, circus, theatre, storytelling, puppetry, improv and sketch comedy and film. Many of the performances featured hybrid forms of dance theatre and storytelling theatre.
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Traditional and non-traditional vocations were showcased in two career fairs held on Manitoulin Island recently. First Nation students had an opportunity to explore many appealing options in the world of work.
An exhibition organized by the United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin (UCCM) drew 550 visitors to the M'Chigeeng community complex May 4. Elementary and secondary…
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Volunteers were in good spirits when they arrived in traditional Muskegowuk territory to take part in the restoration of the ancestral burial grounds at Moose River Crossing. From May 21 to 24, 75 eager participants from Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec gathered at the former village and railway settlement for the annual event, which pays homage to the people who once inhabited…
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Rainy River First Nations announced May 14 that it has reached an agreement with Canada and Ontario on the general terms of a proposed land title settlement after 10 years of negotiations.
If ratified, the agreement will make reparation for reserve land illegally surrendered and sold by the federal government in 1914 and 1915.
Chief Al Hunter called the negotiations…
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If the federal election candidates think an Aboriginal plank or two in their platforms are really going to ensure Indians' participation, either as federal election candidates or at the polling stations, they might ask why the Indian political organizations are not saying the latest, greatest federal party promises mean a lot to them.
Birchbark attempted to contact some…
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A popular, comprehensive and rigorous field of study at Negahneewin College of Indigenous Studies in Thunder Bay is its Aboriginal Law and Advocacy program.
Graduates are finding the program prepares them not only to be court workers and legal advocates across the spectrum of social service-related jobs, but it gives them the solid grounding in Aboriginal history,…
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Bernice Downey, a registered nurse and founding member of the Aboriginal-controlled National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO), has recently been appointed the organization's executive director.
Since 1999, when NAHO was little more than an idea on paper, Downey has worked in many facets of health promotion, most recently as a policy analyst. She has seen the…
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The Greater Sudbury Police Service (GSPS) and the Sudbury Youth Referral Program (YRP) are co-operating to steer first-time offenders away from the court system.
Such prevention measures are mandated by the Youth Criminal Justice Act that came into effect on April 1, 2003.
Under the program, youth who have committed non-violent offences such as shoplifting,…
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Elders are meeting at Six Nations of the Grand River for the first International Indigenous Elders' Summit of the Americas in late summer. Elders from the South Dakota, Cree, Ojibway, Mayan, New Mexico's Navaho and Colombia's Kogi nations and others will gather to share knowledge on youth suicide, historical trauma, domestic violence, environment and health. They hope that…
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The Symposium on Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Cultural Expression, held in Toronto April 24, looked at what speaker Brian Wright-McLeod called a "serious and important issue that needs to be dealt with."
Presented by the Creators' Rights Alliance and Native Women in the Arts, and supported by the federal Department of Canadian Heritage, Industry Canada, and…