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Walking through the back alleys of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside isn't likely to be most people's idea of a conference workshop. Neither would hip-hop dance lessons and basketball at the Y. Yet these were all important items on the agenda at the first Aboriginal Youth, Violence and Troubling Times training conference called Preparing Our Youth for a Healthy Future. Held March 6…
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VICTORIA-Eighteen-year-old Kate Harris is one of only five student chosen by the Royal Bank's RBC Financial Group (RBC) to receive an Aboriginal Student Award this year.
The award is given to Aboriginal students with an eye on a business career and aspirations of attending a relevant post-secondary program.
Harris attends Lester B. Pearson United World College in…
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VICTORIA?Spring was a week old and the planting season started in British Columbia when the First Nations Agricultural Lending Association (FNALA), which provides financing to Aboriginal agricultural producers, and the Investment Agriculture Foundation of British Columbia (IAF) signed an agreement to inject a half million dollars into First Nations' farming and food processing…
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WILLIAMS LAKE-Darryl and Evangeline Samsun Porter celebrated an important milestone recently. The couple were surrounded by friends and family at their graduation from a family life skills program at Nenqayni Treatment Centre on March 25.
Evangeline is originally from Hazelton and Darrell is from The Xatsu'll First Nation (Soda Creek). Xatsu'll has two reserves, Soda Creek…
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An impressive public ceremony on Feb. 14 at the Elijah Smith Building in Whitehorse launched the beginning of a year-long celebration.
"The event acknowledged the anniversary of the establishment of the Council of Yukon Indians (CYI), now known as the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN)," explained Alison Blackduck, co-ordinator of the festivities.
"It was on Feb…
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At 6 a.m. April 1 on a chilly overcast morning in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, a small group of young people took their first step on a monumental journey.
Their route would take them to Departure Bay where they would board the ferry for Vancouver.
From there the road will lead through the Fraser Valley, over the Rocky Mountains, through the prairies, and finally…
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Artist Jim Logan was born in New Westminster, B.C. in 1955, but has worked across Canada throughout a brilliant career creating and promoting Aboriginal art. Currently a visual arts officer for the Canada Council for the Arts, an arts funding body, the Metis man of Cree ancestry has resided in Ottawa since this latest appointment.
"The human family has been a divided…
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The Ucluelet, Hupacasath and Tseshaht First Nations, in partnership with the Coulson Group of Companies, have completed the first stage of negotiations with Weyerhaeuser in their bid to be the successor logging contractor for the Sproat Lake Division.
A framework agreement reached last month sets the stage for the parties to negotiate the proposed business details for the…
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Celebration 2010 and Cap Folk 'n' Roots Series offered up an incredible evening of entertainment on Feb. 28 when they presented St(lmexw "Xw(lm(xw "The People" --A Celebration of Song.
Held at the Capilano College Performing Arts Theatre, the event was part of a province-wide campaign from Feb. 14 to March 8 to showcase the province's creative culture in support of the…
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Another Aboriginal Club office at Okanagan University College (OUC) is open, and the priority of the students running it is to raise funds for students in need.
The Aboriginal meeting place at the North Kelowna campus opened at the end of December.
"Students are planning to have the new Aboriginal centre blessed in late March by a local Elder," said Lyle Mueller,…
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The second annual Caring for the Caregivers conference in Williams Lake was held on Feb. 17 to 19 at the Nenqayni Treatment Centre.
This year's conference was hosted by the centre and by Punky Lake Wilderness Camp Society's Eagle HEART program. Thirty-six front-line workers were present as Cpl. Mike Legault from the RCMP North District Drug Awareness Service gave an…
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'Namgis House, formerly known as St. Michael's Residential School, is being restored by the 'Namgis band. The 75-year-old building is the largest on Cormorant Island,
A project steering committee of 12 people including government, community members and former students is planning the restoration. The committee also includes former students who are not 'Namgis band members…
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More than a dozen people from up and down the coast came to an abalone recovery action plan workshop in Port Alberni last month.
The five-year, $1.5 million Fisheries and Oceans study on ways to rebuild decimated abalone populations is being presented in a number of west coast communities.
"The purpose of the meeting was to report on what the abalone recovery…
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The ink hasn't even hit the pages of the Snuneymuxw treaty yet, but already the Nanaimo area Snuneymuxw are proposing a public-private partnership with the city and private industry to build a $30 million-plus conference centre on the waterfront. The treaty, when it is signed, will be the first urban treaty in British Columbia. Some of the land that is on the treaty table is…
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Walter Harris, a hereditary Gitxsan chief, is one of seven who will receive this year's Governor General's Award in visual and media arts.
Harris, now 72, was born and raised in the Kispiox area. He worked as a miner, sawmill owner and operator, carpenter and commercial fisherman before he enrolled in the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art in 1969. Later he…