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Tears and cheers filled the Alberni Athletic Hall on March 19 as the Ahousaht Ravens beat Bella Coola for the British Columbia Native basketball championship.
The 1999 championship for the Ravens is their third title in the past six years. The ladies won their first championship at the 1995 tournament in Bella Bella. Their second championship came in 1997 in Terrace. The…
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They came from across the country to share their knowledge and, in fine First Nations' tradition, they did.
Writers and film, video, radio and television producers were called to Penticton to attend the third annual Aboriginal Media Arts Symposium, sponsored this year by the Indigenous Arts Service Organization (IASO) in partnership with the Ullus Collective.
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Members of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation did a spring clean-up of their political representatives by electing a new chief and council on March 22.
Out of seven candidates seeking to become chief, Rick O'Brien was narrowly elected as the new chief while incumbent Chief Joe Jack received a stern rejection from the voters. The new broom was also used on council as only two of…
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In 26 years of mushing dogs, Stan Njootli has faced his most difficult challenges competing in the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race.
During his first attempt in the world's toughest sled dog race, the musher from Old Crow was forced to scratch after his dogs were infected with a virus. Undaunted, he returned the following year and placed 18th, winning the Red…
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The Uchucklesaht First Nation, located on the northern edge of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, held an important meeting in early March with various government and corporate officials in an effort to save their Henderson Lake sockeye and chinook salmon stocks.
This was the third annual meeting of the parties with an interest in the Henderson Watershed…
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I have made numerous references to balancing your medicine wheel in this column. Achieving this balance can aid you in so many ways, but most importantly, it will help you to be more grounded, centered and at ease with yourself.
The four parts to our medicine wheel are: mental, emotional, physical and spiritual.
For the mental aspect of the medicine wheel, learn…
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In the August 1980 issue of National Geographic there is an article entitled "Man's 80 Centuries in Veracruz." The article says archeological evidence such as broken tools around campsites and fire pits dates from 5600 BC. It is significant that 75 of these centuries are pre-Columbian.
Could this story have been titled: "Eighty Centuries of Man in Vancouver?"
This…
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COMMENTARY
I found it interesting to read a couple of mainstream news stories this month that weren't really related - except for the fact that they both dealt with subjects in Indian Country.
First of all, several of the major national church executive bodies told The National Post that their financial futures may be jeopardized by residential school damage claims…
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Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) researchers and staff are already excited about the next central exhibit soon to be constructed in the void left by the highly successful Leonardo da Vinci exhibit.
HuupuKwanum - The Treasures of Our Chiefs, is the first exclusively Nuu-chah-nulth exhibit to ever appear in a museum or gallery, and this also marks the first time museum…
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The return of a Wet'suwet'en totem pole in the town of Smithers will mark an important breakthrough in the relationship between the Wet'suwet'en First Nation people and the non-Native people in the area.
The red cedar tree selected for the totem pole is being carved into a all clan totem pole on the school grounds of Smithers Senior Secondary School by Wet'suwet'en carver…
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Former Alberni Indian Residential School dormitory supervisor and convicted pedophile Arthur Henry Plint will remain behind bars at Mountain Institute in Agassiz for another few months.
Having served the necessary two-thirds of his 11-year sentence for sexually and physically assaulting students under his care, Plint has been eligible for day parole since January, and will…
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Gordon Wilson, British Columbia's minister of Aboriginal Affairs, released a recently-commissioned independent study on March 24, claiming the settlement of outstanding treaties will bring more than four billion federal government dollars into the province.
The study by Grant Thornton Management Consultants of Vancouver, applies recent treaty precedents such as the Nisga'a…
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Penticton Indian Band members reacted angrily on March 31 to news that a land transfer agreement was about to be signed by Transport Canada and the city of Penticton which would turn over federally-controlled airport land to the city.
About 200 Native supporters demonstrated at the airport that day, forcing the cancellation of at least three local flights.
The…
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It all started with three unemployed friends reminiscing about old times. While lamenting the by-gone days of the now defunct Dannzha newspaper (also know as the Yukon Indian News), the trio, who all share a communications background, also noticed a lack of First Nation representation in the 1998 Yukon Gold Rush celebrations and within Northern media outlets.
One idea led…