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A new location has meant added strength for the KiseWaToTaToWin Aboriginal Parent Program now that it is more closely allied with seven other child and parent organizations.
The organization, which promotes pre-European contact parenting methods for Aboriginal parents, held a grand opening celebration for its new location on June 17. It joins the other organizations in…
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Translated by Norman Moyah
When Antoine Littlewolf talks, people listen.
And when he gives an old time traditional dancing lesson, the dancers tend to jump a little higher, stretch a little further and bend a little deeper.
"Get down lower!" bellowed the Elder, pointing to the ground. "Make your body shake and flutter like a bird, don't straighten up. That's…
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From June 21 to 24, I had the good fortune to be able to accompany a group of Saskatoon city police officers and a group of Aboriginal youth on a canoe trip on the Churchill River near of La Ronge. The trip as I understand it is the vision of Constable Craig Nyifra. Craig is the Native Liaison Officer with the Saskatoon police force. The trip is intended to break down the…
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Who is Fara? If you don't know she's Saskatchewan's own Native pop diva. At only 26, she has made a career out of singing and has become quite successful. Here is an interview that reveals the beautiful woman behind the beautiful voice.
She has found singing as a way to send a positive message to First Nations youth. For example, listen to 'Walk Away' on her first album,…
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Hundreds of people gathered to celebrate National Aboriginal Day at the Lloydminster Native Friendship Center. For many of the real traditionalists among the crowd, it was also a way to mark the sacred day of the summer solstice, a ancient ceremony celebrated for tens of thousands of years on the plains by the original inhabitants of these lands.
June 21 was officially…
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Celebrations occurred in every corner of Saskatchewan this month as Native and non-Native people alike marked June 21 - Aboriginal Day.
Sage correspondants took in the festivities on several fronts. Mervin Brass filed his story and pictures from Regina. Pamela Sexsmith Green did likewise from Lloydminster.
Everywhere you looked, the young and the not-quite-as-young…
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Lawyers who worked on the Corbiere case concerning the voting rights of off-reserve members that was decided by the Supreme Court of Canada on May 20 say the media's misunderstanding of the decision may have triggered an incident at the Abegweit Reserve in Prince Edward Island. On May 25, three women who were off-reserve members tried to vote in a band election and wound up being…
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What a way to go sight seeing!
Take one eagle eye's view of the Onion Lake reserve from more than 300 metres up in a state-of-the-art Bell Jet Ranger 206 helicopter. Add a pile of bright enthusiastic kids and what have you got?
For more than 150 Native youngsters it was the ride of a lifetime that gave them a whole new take on pow wow like they'd never seen it…
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Hundreds of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people gathered together in various venues around the province to celebrate a day set aside for Aboriginal people.
One of the biggest gatherings took place in downtown Regina at Victoria Park on Monday June 21.
Songs and dances representing the various Aboriginal peoples and cultures echoed throughout the seven acre park.…
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Huge changes are looming in Saskatchewan's Indian political landscape and the shape of that new landscape will be known within the next 18 months.
Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Section 77 (1) of the Indian Act as unconstitutional. That's the section that prevented off-reserve Indians from practicing their democratic right to vote in a band election.…
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The law of the land has caught up with the Department of Indian Affairs.
The long-awaited decision in the Corbiere case was handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada on May 20. The court ruled that Section 77 (1) of the Indian Act, which allowed bands to prohibit off-reserve residents from voting in band council elections, was contrary to the equality provisions of the…
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Learning about Native culture in the classroom is lots of fun but making a little bit of history of your own can be even more exciting.
It all started with a pile of pen pal letters sent between two "sister" Grade 3 classes - one from the city and one from the reserve. They also exchanged video tapes of themselves and their families. Then came a special invitation to…
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It was a devastation and something that no one will ever forget, another tragedy in America had caught the attention of the World in Columbine High School at Littleton, Colorado. You read the articles, saw the news, and saw the sadness in the tears of the families and friends of the victims. Two enraged teens opened fire and killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher. Many…
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Continuing demographic changes within western Canada have forced our business communities to re-evaluate the economic potential of the Aboriginal population in terms of market expansion as well as a human resource base.
Recent research points out that the expected population growth of Aboriginal people within the next 10 years will have an enormous influence on the way…
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I grew up in several different foster homes. One of these times, I was put in a foster home that was a farm. Before that, I did not know anything about farming. But in this foster home, I was put to work on the farm. If I remember right, I was about nine years old.
I started learning about cows, milking cows, separating the calves from the moms, cleaning stalls - all the…