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The Peepeekisis First Nation held its second annual "Follow Your Dreams Art Festival" from Sept. 23 to 25 at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts.
The goal of the festival was to promote First Nations artists and their work. It featured a three-day trade show, a dinner theatre, talent show and fashion show. The event wrapped up with a dance where country singer Lorrie…
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The man standing in front of the painting began to fidget uncomfortably, slowly collecting his thoughts. He edged closer to read the story behind the art work with his head nodding in recognition.
Soon he began to smile, studying the painting of a naked couple making love. It became clear what he was looking at.
The MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina hosted an erotic…
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Maria Campbell's home at Gabriels Crossing became a gathering place for traditional healers from September 10 to 12. Elders from Saskatchewan and Alberta came out to meet two Indigenous women from Fiji, as well as 10 community health students from Mozambique who happen to be studying at the University of Saskatoon.
The songs of both Fiji and Mozambique enriched the first…
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Have you ever tried to find the phone number of a close friend or family member and hit a brick wall?
The reserve you are trying to contact isn't listed or the operator has never heard of that community or, if the operator has heard of it, it's listed under a town or city number somewhere else in the region that the operator just can't find. That's the way it is for most…
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For the second year in a row, the team from Black Lake Saskatchewan won the 1999 Canadian National Native Fire Fighters Competition, held this year in Quebec City.
Teams from across Canada represented the best of the best as the teams had to first defeat all other teams in their respective provinces to get to the national finals.
Representation this year came…
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The Lebret Eagles are seeing a lot of change this season. There's a new coach and general manager; there are new uniforms, resembling the current sweaters of the NHL's St. Louis Blues; with only eight veterans returning from last year's club, there's also a lot of new faces in those new sweaters; they also have a new mascot: "Braveheart," who was last seen at the Saskatchewan…
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Three ladies from Saskatchewan recently earned world titles at the Schemitzun 1999 World Championship of Song and Dance, held just outside of Hartford, Conn. at Mashuntucket Pequot in September.
Linda Standing from the Whitebear First Nation won in the adult women's northern traditional category. Irene Oakes of Nekaneet First Nation placed first in the women's fancy…
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At a band council meeting just this last month, we were talking about justice. This conversation has stayed with me since that meeting. I have been both worrying and thinking.
I have not made it much of a secret - there was a time in my life where I had lots of run ins with the law. It was not my experiences of being jailed that led me to changing my life around. It was…
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There's only 85 days left until the year 2000.
It's the end of the century and the beginning of a new millennium. As for Native people, we can't help but look at the positive changes we have made during the past 10 years and the depression we have faced in the last 100 years. We have come a long way and shown the world how successful we have become in many different areas…
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Aboriginal leaders say a federal cabinet minister's speech during Treaty 4 commemorations in Fort Qu'Appelle may mean a new relationship between Canada's Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. In a speech delivered during the opening ceremonies for the National Treaty Gathering on the morning of September 15, Minister of Indian Affairs Robert Nault said he wants the federal…
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With ceremonies old and new, leaders and Elders turned the first sod in the $6 million Treaty 4 Governance and Cultural Centre complex during Treaty 4 commemorations.
When completed sometime next year, the new facility chamber for Treaty 4 First Nations will house a First Nations' archives and keeping house, a cultural centre and office space for agencies such as the First…
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Final arguments were heard in Fort Qu'Appelle Provincial Court last month on what could be one of the biggest judgments on treaty rights in the wake of recent Supreme Court of Canada rulings.
Provincial Court Judge Ross Moxley reserved judgment until Nov. 8 on the case of two Pasqua First Nation men charged with three counts of illegally catching fish for sale.
At…
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Chiefs from 30 First Nations across southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Manitoba took a little more home from the Treaty 4 gathering than the traditional five dollar bill, a handshake from a Mountie and a commemorative medallion.
They took home a plaque and a little piece of history. They signed an agreement-in-principle for Aboriginal self government, using Treaty 4 as…
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When Premier Roy Romanow announced he put together a coalition government with the Liberals he shocked most observers but he also made some Aboriginal leaders happy.
Romanow called on Buckley Belanger, a Metis MLA from Ile la Crosse, to serve as minister of Environment and Resource Management and also to be the associate minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs…
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Although many First Nation communities are garnering high school graduates and post-secondary students, education and training remains their top priority.
Since the 1960s, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) have funded First Nations students in their post-secondary educational endeavors. At the time, DIAND did not have a developed policy or…