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You've heard many athletes who win MVP awards say it was a team effort, and that there were several other players on the team who could have won the recognition. Bruce Reece feels the same way.
Reece's team, though, was made up of fellow residents in Hartley Bay and the game was far more dangerous than any sport. It was the sinking of the Queen of the North ferry on March 29 near…
After standing for 77 years in a foreign land far, far away, the G'psgolox totem pole is back where it belongs: in Haisla territory.
Hundreds of Haisla Nation members joined dignitaries and members of other First Nations in Kitamaat village July 1 to celebrate the homecoming of the G'psgolox pole. It is believed to be the first North American First Nation totem pole ever to be…
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Nearly half of the recommendations in the recently released Highway of Tears symposium report are focused on prevention, including one that proposes that a unique free shuttle system operate between Prince Rupert and Prince George.
The report, which is the result of a gathering held in late March in Prince George on the subject of the young women missing or found murdered…
Two years ago Sheila Swasson had a dream of cycling across Canada to raise awareness about family violence in First Nations communities. On May 28, her dream was set into motion as Aboriginal Women on the Move Cross-Canada Cycle departed Vancouver en-route to St. John's, Nfld.
The dream, which began as a slip of the tongue to family members in 2004, quickly came to life when long-time…
Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre Vancouver reached out to urban Aboriginal communities in the Lower Mainland to strengthen relationships and recruit urban Aboriginal youth during a one-day open house.
The event, which celebrated Aboriginal culture and promoted employment opportunities for youth in the Armed Forces, was held at HMCS DISCOVERY naval base in Stanley Park on May 27.
…Andrea Hardman, 18, an aspiring First Nations artist, who is one of six recipients of this year's YVR Art Foundation Scholarship, has always been drawn to the creative, from finger painting as a child to her preferred medium of photography as a young adult.
A member of the Nisga'a and Carrier Nations, Hardman incorporates her First Nations heritage into her work, viewing her subjects…
Aboriginal people in Canada are three times more likely to be victims of violence than are non-Aboriginal Canadians, according to Victimization and Offending Among the Aboriginal Population in Canada, a report released by Statistics Canada on June 6.
The report, which bases many of its findings on a general social survey conducted in 2004, showed that the risk of becoming a victim of…
In a unanimous decision on June 8, the BC. Court of Appeal stated that the federal Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy is not a race-based fishery. The news was greeted positively by the First Nations Summit and with a promise to appeal to the Supreme Court by the BC Fisheries Survival Coalition.
The court decided the communal license of the Musqueam-Burrard and Tsawwassen nations was not a…
The Allied Tsimshian Tribes (ATT) brought just one message when their representatives visited Norway in June, and it was a clear and emphatic one: Fish farms are not welcome in their territory.
That message was heard by a wide range of prominent people in the country, home to the world's leading fish farm corporations, and it was backed by delegates from southern B.C., the United States…
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Native American youth hope to bring change and awareness to environmental issues through Prayer Run for World Peace, a 3,000 kilometre run from Vancouver to the Eklutna reservation near Anchorage, Alaska.
Nine runners, ranging in age from 18 to 22 years from South Dakota and Minnesota will travel towards Eklutna carrying prayers for the preservation of the Arctic National…
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There are 11 men from British Columbia now facing 105 charges in the killing and mutilation of bald eagles. The charges stem from an investigation into the slaughter of 50 of the sacred birds, many of which were found buried on the Burrard First Nation reserve in February 2005. Burrard First Nation Elder Leonard George has confirmed that some of the men arrested were part of his…
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The federal government has pledged $2.25 million over the next three years for rock barriers and other work to halt waterfront erosion of McMillan Island near Fort Langley. The island's eastern end has been eroding into the Fraser River since the mid-1800s. Since then the river had absorbed 680 metres of the eastern bank. Over the next 25 years without attention, 5.3 hectares of…
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On April 25, more than 500 people gathered on Coast Salish territory at the Vancouver Art Gallery to show their support for the protest at the Six Nations community in southern Ontario near Caledonia. The rally was intended to serve as a deterrence to further police escalation against the Six Nations protesters.
On Feb. 28, members of the Six Nations community set up a…
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Doug Pierce loves to run. A lot. So much so in fact that the 61-year-old is closing in on the equivalent of running around the world twice.
The circumference of the world at the equator is slightly more than 40,000 kilometres (about 25,000 miles). Pierce, who has kept a log of how far he has travelled since he started running at age 40, is approaching the 50,000-mile mark…
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On April 25, more than 500 people gathered on Coast Salish territory at the Vancouver Art Gallery to show their support for the protest at the Six Nations community in southern Ontario near Caledonia. The rally was intended to serve as a deterrence to further police escalation against the Six Nations protesters.
On Feb. 28, members of the Six Nations community set up a…