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The IMAGeNation Aboriginal Film and Video Festival has continued to grow both in size and reputation since holding its inaugural affair in November 1998. The theme for this year's seventh annual festival, to be held Feb. 17 to 20, is "Indigenous Inter-Faces," and will feature more than 100 entries, including short drama and documentaries, experimental works, video art, animation…
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Although many people don't realize it, there are living Tseshaht Elders who were born on the Broken Group Islands. They were once yound children who enjoyed a playground of rocky beaches and lush forests before being sent to residential schools in Port Alberni. On Dec. 1, a handful of them paid a visit to the places they once called home.
Tseshaht Elders Allan Dick, Fred…
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Vancouver
A number of respected Aboriginal leaders, legal experts and academics from across the province will be taking part in a speakers series on First Nations governance and land claims, but their words will reach more than just those in attendance in the University of British Columbia's First Nations Longhouse.
Thanks to the marvels of technology the lectures…
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The subject of the latest portrait unveiled in Parliament's hall of honor is Kim Campbell, Canada's first and still only female prime minister. Behind Campbell in the painting is the work of Haida fashion designer and artist Dorothy Grant.
Campbell's portrait was revealed on Nov. 30 during a brief ceremony attended by current Prime Minister Paul Martin. Painted by British…
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A Saskatchewan judge has struck down a down a provincial government policy requiring band approval before First Nations children in care can be put up for adoption.
The Dec. 10 ruling by Madame Justice Jacelyn Ann Ryan-Froslie of the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench found that the province's policy contravened the Canadian Charter of Rights by limiting the rights of…
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The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has received a submission from the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) in an appeal involving the sexual assault of a 12-year-old Cree girl.
The judge granted the organization intervenor status in November. The women's association submission will stress gender equality rights under Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms…
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PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.-School trustees in this northern community have approved plans for an all-Aboriginal high school to open in September. They are hoping to reverse the current trend of a higher Native drop-out rate. The school will be launched under a three-way partnership between the Ministry of Education, local First Nations and the school district.
VICTORIA-In March…
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The Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal Council says the provincial government's new Pacific Salmon Forum is just a smoke screen and "a case of too little, too late."
Tsawataineuk First Nation Chief Eric Joseph said he is frustrated that the province is conducting yet another forum on the B.C. salmon industry instead of acting on previous studies, most of which say the same…
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Seven Native artists were in Germany recently as part of a four week, pre-Christmas Canada promotion at Ludwig Beck, one of Munich's most exclusive department stores. Calvin and Marie Hunt, Alan Syliboy, Amelia Willier, Mark Dorey, Mervyn Child and Mikael Germain displayed their works to an estimated one million consumers during the expo which ran from Nov. 25 to Dec. 22.
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The Burnaby Red Cross received a special donation for the Indian Ocean tsunami victims on Dec. 29, 2004, when Lily Whonnock, an Elder from the Mount Currie reserve, and Bill Chu of Canadians For Reconciliation (CFR), presented them with a cheque for $2,200. These funds were a gift from the Mount Currie Indian Band, who graciously donated monies earmarked to help them rebuild…
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The Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) has voted to approve a multi-million dollar deal with the Vancouver Port Authority that will make way for participation in the port's megaport expansion.
"Almost 90 per cent voted in favour of the agreement," Chief Kim Baird said the morning after the Nov. 29 vote. About 85 per cent of the band's 330 members voted. "It was a pretty clear…
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People travelled from New York and Boston, from Toronto and Ottawa. They came from Alaska, from across British Columbia and as far away as Thailand. Organizers of the Healing Ourselves-Healing the Human Family conference held Nov. 18 to 21 in Vancouver were expecting 150 delegates, but saw more than 300 participants in Saturday's activities.
The conference, presented by…
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The 13th annual Vancouver International Storytelling Festival entertained and delighted audiences from Nov. 19 to 21 and boasted a wide array of international voices and an excellent variety of Aboriginal storytellers and performers, including David Campbell, Wayne Lavallee, Skeena Reece, and Kinnie Starr.
At the opening night show, The Weaving of Stories, a full house was…
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It's an intense role that would try even the most experienced of actors: a young soldier is convicted of raping and killing 23 women during a racially charged civil war, only to be rescued from the hangman's rope by a victim's grieving mother to become her slave.
Stuart Pierre played the role of the soldier Stetko with unflinching confidence before a full house on preview…
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In the 2004 All Native basketball qualifying tournament, the back door was slammed shut by defending champs.
All four champions of the tournament held in Prince Rupert at the end of November went undefeated, snuffing any thoughts anybody might have had of a glory team rising from the losers' bracket.
And, despite losing two of the three finals they reached, the…