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Trent University, nestled in the heart of ancestral Iroquois-Anishinabe lands in Southern Ontario, has always been a special place for Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
As the home of the first Native Studies department in Canada, Trent will be celebrating 30 years of ground-breaking education with the addition a new Ph.D. program - the first of its kind in Canada - which will…
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Dear Editor,
I was delighted to see the article Women's voices . . . in your December issue and even more honored to find myself named. I thank the writer for including my comments, but would like to make a few corrections.
Firstly, I am not a fluent Cree speaker, though I hope someday I will be able to say so and speak with the eloquence the Cree language provides…
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In the 1970s, First Nations people launched a campaign that was framed by the slogan "Indian control of Indian education." It was very clear that this campaign reflected the hopes of First Nations communities for the education of their children. However, this campaign really was not new. If you understand the treaty making process in the prairie provinces, access to education was…
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The first Metis person to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan has come up with a way to improve drug delivery to cancer cells.
Lee Wilson, 1997-98 winner of the Taube Medal, the department of chemistry's award for the highest achievement in research, completed his doctoral degree and graduated in late 1998. The research work which led to his…
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Trains, planes and automobiles. Throw in a boat and bus ride and you have CANDO's 5th annual national conference held in Vancouver from Nov. 25 to Nov. 28.
CANDO is the better known acronym for the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers. Representatives from Aboriginal economic development organizations across Canada gathered to share economic…
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A boxing training camp may not be the place most people expect to be during the holidays, but for Jesse Derocher, a member of Team Saskatchewan, it was part of his journey to the 1999 Canada Winter Games.
Derocher, 16, and his six teammates will be in Cornerbrook, Nfld. on Feb. 27 to compete in the intermediate boxing events. In the meantime, it will be training camps and…
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In a quiet ceremony in a community hall in Prince Albert's west end recently, there were seven handshakes, seven smiles and seven certificates given out as Vicky Ducharme looked on with pride.
It was her seven students she was watching during the graduation ceremony for the Youth Futures Self Discovery Program. And it was seven lives that have become very important to her…
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From the first week of July to the middle of August, Aboriginal men and woman who dream of military life can attend a program called 'Bold Eagle.' The program designed for Aboriginal youth is open to male or female applicants from 17 to 26 years of age who are First Nations members. The program consists of a one week cultural camp before the training program actually begins.…
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The last hurdle may have been cleared to changing the way outstanding land claims are settled in Canada.
Lawrence Joseph, vice-chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, said meetings in December between the Chiefs' National Committee on Claims and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs has produced a consensus on how to move ahead with a new commission…
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It was a time to say "thank you" and give credit where credit was due at a historic meeting which took place on a mock battlefield at the Lloydminster exhibition grounds in front of 9,000 people in early June.
It was also time - many Aboriginal people would say high time and long over-due - when, during an historic reenactment, a large column of North West Mounted Police…
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More than two dozen young Aboriginal men and women have completed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Aboriginal Youth Training Program (AYTP) this year, and are now posted throughout Canada as temporary members of Canada's national police force.
Initiated in 1993 by the RCMP and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN), the program was modeled on the Bold Eagle…
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Imagine what it would be like to wake up one day and suddenly discover that you have Native blood flowing through your veins.
For two women - both were adopted by non-Native families when they were infants - that's exactly what happened.
On most weekday evenings, Kristy Snell can be found co-anchoring CBC Television News in Saskatchewan.
The Snell family from…
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The list of dignitaries who made a point of attending the official opening of Wapawekka Lumber, Ltd. on June 24 at a site adjacent to the Weyerhaeuser Canada plant outside Prince Albert, was long and impressive.
Several chiefs, including the Grand Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, Perry Bellgarde, a provincial cabinet minister, representatives of…
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Darrell Taypotat wants to spread the joy of what he likes doing most - competing in rodeos.
The Broadview cowboy is one of the top steer rodeo performers in Saskatchewan. He's been a runner up for the World Indian National Finals in calf roping, was the 1992 champion steer wrestler in the Indian Professional Rodeo Association and in 1988 was the Canadian Cowboys…
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When Nelson Bird once joked about someday hosting a Saskatchewan-based television program, little did he know he would have the last laugh.
On the day Bird made the comment, he was a long way from Saskatchewan. In the spring of 1997, he finished journalism school at the University of Regina. Shortly after that, he headed west to Victoria in search of a job. During…