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In early May more than 200 Aboriginal youth from different regions of Canada will participate in a national Aboriginal youth business competition called E-spirit. Naomi Sayers is one of the many who will participate this year.
Sayers, 17, who lives on the Garden River First Nation reserve, said she learned a lot from the online business strategy last year.
Her goal…
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Funding for new facilities and services for the developmentally disabled will not make life any easier for Aboriginal communities in northwestern Ontario. On March 10, the Ministry of Community and Social Services announced it would provide $24.4 million in capital and operating funds to create 178 new facilities. The funding goes to 27 communities in southern Ontario: Toronto,…
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Moses Amik, known outside his community also as Moses Beaver, is becoming as well known for his school workshops both on- and off-reserve as he is for the paintings that hang in the GrannArt Centre for the Arts in Thunder Bay.
Amik, 44, was born in Landsdowne House but has lived in Nibinamik (Summer Beaver) since 1975.
An uncle encouraged him to draw and paint as a…
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The streets of Toronto have become a battleground for gun-toting street youth gangs, Detective Cst. Doug Minor told a March 17 gathering. "It's organized crime," said Minor, a member of the Guns and Gangs Task Force.
The 13-year veteran of the Metropolitan Toronto Police told a group of Native and non-Native teens at the new Tumivut youth shelter on Vaughan Rd. that there…
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Library and Archives Canada has introduced a new online guide to help people trace their heritage in its virtual Canadian Genealogy Centre. Launched Feb. 23, the guide Researching Your Aboriginal Ancestry provides tips on genealogy searching and suggests links to government records.
Records on Aboriginal people are grouped into the categories of Indian, Metis and Inuit as…
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The first Aboriginal art curator in this country, the highly acclaimed Tom Hill, became one of the Governor General's laureates last month when it was announced he had been selected to receive the annual award in the category of Visual and Media Arts.
For more than 20 years Hill has been director of the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brampton, a job he still enjoys so much…
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The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation set up shop in Calgary April 4 to pay tribute to 14 accomplished members of the Native community in Canada.
The foundation's annual achievement awards gala was a lavish affair, bringing together a who's who of the Aboriginal elite and the corporate connected.
Playing host to the foundation's guests were legendary…
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While the blockade at the Grassy Narrows First Nation in Northern Ontario has gathered massive support from all over the world, the chainsaws are still winning the battle.
But a group of determined Native teens vows to stop the clear-cutting taking place on their reserve.
Six Ojibwa teens from Grassy Narrows were recent guests of the self-described warrior society,…
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The first Aboriginal art curator in this country, the highly acclaimed Tom Hill, became one of the Governor General's laureates last month when it was announced he had been selected to receive the annual award in the category of Visual and Media Arts.
For more than 20 years Hill has been director of the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brampton, a job he still enjoys so much…
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A proposed five-year plan to develop special education programs for First Nation children in the Sioux Lookout District completed its first phase in January.
Last November, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) approved Sioux Lookout area chiefs to use $240,000 previously earmarked to pay for a special education needs assessment covering the 24 schools supported by…
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The former town of Haileybury, which recently became incorporated into the city of Temiskaming Shores, may be home to a multifaceted Metis tourism business in the near future.
Connie Boyd, office manager of the Temiskaming Metis Community Council said the council is excited that its dream is beginning to take shape. She said that the area is steeped in rich Metis culture,…
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Jimmy Dick phones a sponsor to see if they will help fund another event at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto.
This time he's telling them about the Toronto Festival of Storytelling, scheduled for March 26 to April 4.
He is also working on getting storytellers for the event, which is touted as one of North America's oldest and largest storytelling celebrations.…
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Chris Armour spent 10 years praying for better days.
His prayers were answered when he met the Dean Severight, a homeless man living on the streets of Toronto.
Before the housed Armour met Severight, he often found himself walking out of places unwanted while seeking volunteer work or even friendship.
It was Severight who first brought him into the Native…
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Larry Loyie went back to school, learned grammar and taught himself how to type. Today, he is author of Ora Pro Nobis (Pray for Us), a two act play, and As Long as the Rivers Flow, a children's book that won the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children's non-fiction.
Loyie, a Cree born in Slave Lake, Alta., and his partner Constance Brissenden originated the Living…
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Nine first- and second-year students at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre (CIT) presented a clown showcase in the auditorium of the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto on Feb. 20. The showcase featured clown work from the European theatre tradition.
"This is not slapstick comedy," director Mark Christmann said. "There are no violent moves. It's not like circus clowns. These…