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The fifth annual Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership will be presented to Chairman W. Ron Allen during a ceremony at Ecotrust's Centre in Portland, Oregon on Nov. 30, where four other finalists will also be honored for the commitments they've made to their communities and environments. Chief Robert Pasco (Nlaka'pamux) of Ashcroft, B.C. is among them.
Robi Michelle…
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Growing up in Northern Alberta, film-maker Loretta Todd remembers going to school and watching documentaries from the National Film Board of Canada about Native communities. She remembers the way Aboriginal people were depicted in these documentaries-demeaning and cliched representations that made other people in her class laugh. As a film-maker, Todd, who is Metis/Cree, has spent…
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Growing up in Northern Alberta, film-maker Loretta Todd remembers going to school and watching documentaries from the National Film Board of Canada about Native communities. She remembers the way Aboriginal people were depicted in these documentaries-demeaning and cliched representations that made other people in her class laugh. As a film-maker, Todd, who is Metis/Cree, has spent…
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Money makes the research world go round. It takes money to get the best researcher in the world to come up with plans and courses of action in a field of endeavor.
Dr. Lorna Williams of the University of Victoria and Dr. Mary-Ellen Kelm of Simon Fraser University are two of the best, and have been awarded research chairs by their respective institutions through the Canada…
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Money makes the research world go round. It takes money to get the best researcher in the world to come up with plans and courses of action in a field of endeavor.
Dr. Lorna Williams of the University of Victoria and Dr. Mary-Ellen Kelm of Simon Fraser University are two of the best, and have been awarded research chairs by their respective institutions through the Canada…
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The annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the site of one of the most important battles of the First World War was moved up to Nov. 2 this year to accommodate the presence of a group of Aboriginal veterans from Canada.
A large crowd of onlookers watched as French and Canadian veterans, soldiers and dignitaries gathered in the Canadian war cemetery at Vimy Ridge to pay tribute…
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The annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the site of one of the most important battles of the First World War was moved up to Nov. 2 this year to accommodate the presence of a group of Aboriginal veterans from Canada.
A large crowd of onlookers watched as French and Canadian veterans, soldiers and dignitaries gathered in the Canadian war cemetery at Vimy Ridge to pay tribute…
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This year's recipient of the Aboriginal Women in Leadership Distinction Award is Corinne Stone from Williams Lake, B.C. She received the award for her achievements in the field of Health and Healing. The award was presented at the 6th Annual National Aboriginal Women in Leadership Training Conference from Oct. 19 to 22 in Montreal.
Corinne was born in the interior Cariboo…
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This year's recipient of the Aboriginal Women in Leadership Distinction Award is Corinne Stone from Williams Lake, B.C. She received the award for her achievements in the field of Health and Healing. The award was presented at the 6th Annual National Aboriginal Women in Leadership Training Conference from Oct. 19 to 22 in Montreal.
Corinne was born in the interior Cariboo…
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A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of an Aboriginal street youth, a picture is worth even more when it provides an outlet for his feelings and connects him with resources that can help him make it through another day.
On Oct. 5 the Kla how eya Aboriginal Centre in Surrey, in collaboration with the Adolescent Crisis Response Program of Fraser Health, held…
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A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of an Aboriginal street youth, a picture is worth even more when it provides an outlet for his feelings and connects him with resources that can help him make it through another day.
On Oct. 5 the Kla how eya Aboriginal Centre in Surrey, in collaboration with the Adolescent Crisis Response Program of Fraser Health, held…
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Nicola Campbell was studying to be a teacher when she heard her childhood aspiration calling.
She answered that call and as a result, fulfilled a promise she made as a little girl.
"I've wanted to write ever since I was little," said Campbell, whose first children's book Shi-shi-etko (Groundwood Books) was recently launched at the UBC First Nations Longhouse.
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Nicola Campbell was studying to be a teacher when she heard her childhood aspiration calling.
She answered that call and as a result, fulfilled a promise she made as a little girl.
"I've wanted to write ever since I was little," said Campbell, whose first children's book Shi-shi-etko (Groundwood Books) was recently launched at the UBC First Nations Longhouse.
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The Tsimshian Tribal Council (TTC) has been shut down and the society put into receivership, ending a bitter power struggle between the council and its member bands.
The TTC's doors closed last month after years of dispute and disarray in the Tsimshian Nation came to a head with a recent ruling by the B.C. Supreme Court that gave the bands the power to dissolve the council…
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The Tsimshian Tribal Council (TTC) has been shut down and the society put into receivership, ending a bitter power struggle between the council and its member bands.
The TTC's doors closed last month after years of dispute and disarray in the Tsimshian Nation came to a head with a recent ruling by the B.C. Supreme Court that gave the bands the power to dissolve the council…