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I've been recently hired at a new job. Since coming to work here, I've been disturbed by the reason for my employment. I was chosen because I am an Aboriginal person.
Firstly, it is a certainty I was hired because of my skin color. My employer has told me as much. I am unsure if this is a good thing or bad. My life has seen enough prejudice, and I've heard enough racist…
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The modern jingle dress is a recent arrival on the powwow scene. Several tribes take credit for its origin, the vision of a medicine man, according to legend.
He was instructed to create a dress covered with hundreds of rows of jingles made from the folded lids of snuff cans. When danced into the powwow arbor by his granddaughter, the jingles created a mystical sound,…
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The modern jingle dress is a recent arrival on the powwow scene. Several tribes take credit for its origin, the vision of a medicine man, according to legend.
He was instructed to create a dress covered with hundreds of rows of jingles made from the folded lids of snuff cans. When danced into the powwow arbor by his granddaughter, the jingles created a mystical sound,…
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As artists we have many mediums to work with. I have worked with oil paints, water colors and acrylics. I use my camera. I have worked with natural materials like feathers, leather, clay, concrete and raw wood.
Lately, I have been making furniture. I work with a table saw, miter saw and hand saw. Even with a chain saw you can make a lot of things that are nice. This winter…
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As artists we have many mediums to work with. I have worked with oil paints, water colors and acrylics. I use my camera. I have worked with natural materials like feathers, leather, clay, concrete and raw wood.
Lately, I have been making furniture. I work with a table saw, miter saw and hand saw. Even with a chain saw you can make a lot of things that are nice. This winter…
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It was an unprecedented sight in Saskatchewan history.
Bruce Parker, following the lead of a Star Blanket First Nation Elder, placed his left hand over his heart, raised his right hand, and spoke the magic words that made him the first police chief of a First Nations police service in the province.
For 82-year-old Charlie Bigknife, the ceremony Sept. 27 at the…
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It was an unprecedented sight in Saskatchewan history.
Bruce Parker, following the lead of a Star Blanket First Nation Elder, placed his left hand over his heart, raised his right hand, and spoke the magic words that made him the first police chief of a First Nations police service in the province.
For 82-year-old Charlie Bigknife, the ceremony Sept. 27 at the…
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Chris Axworthy, Saskatchewan's justice minister has ordered a public inquest into the events that led to the death of Darcy Dean Ironchild earlier this year.
The decision was announced after the provincial public prosecutions office decided there was no basis for the laying of criminal charges in relation to the matter. Ironchild, 33, was found dead of a drug overdose in…
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Chris Axworthy, Saskatchewan's justice minister has ordered a public inquest into the events that led to the death of Darcy Dean Ironchild earlier this year.
The decision was announced after the provincial public prosecutions office decided there was no basis for the laying of criminal charges in relation to the matter. Ironchild, 33, was found dead of a drug overdose in…
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The Treaty 4 Governance Centre is more than just another building.
It's a home to a First Nations government and bureaucracy, and its construction was the result of years of effort by First Nations people on and off the drawing boards.
For Garry Bosoged, its completion earlier in September was more than a dream come true. It ended nearly a decade of planning and…
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The Treaty 4 Governance Centre is more than just another building.
It's a home to a First Nations government and bureaucracy, and its construction was the result of years of effort by First Nations people on and off the drawing boards.
For Garry Bosoged, its completion earlier in September was more than a dream come true. It ended nearly a decade of planning and…
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One minute passed. Then two.
At the podium, the Grand Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations temporarily lost his composure. He was reading the names of the 13 chiefs who originally signed Treaty 4, 126 years ago to the day when he suddenly put his hand over the microphone and began sobbing.
The afternoon of Sept. 15 was a very emotional time for the…
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One minute passed. Then two.
At the podium, the Grand Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations temporarily lost his composure. He was reading the names of the 13 chiefs who originally signed Treaty 4, 126 years ago to the day when he suddenly put his hand over the microphone and began sobbing.
The afternoon of Sept. 15 was a very emotional time for the…
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The Moosomin First Nation held a traditional ceremony Sept. 1, celebrating their meeting of the minimum requirements for land purchase under the Saskatchewan Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) Framework Agreement.
The First Nation community, located 75 km north of North Battleford in northwestern Saskatchewan, is the fourteenth in the province to reach its minimum shortfall…
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The Moosomin First Nation held a traditional ceremony Sept. 1, celebrating their meeting of the minimum requirements for land purchase under the Saskatchewan Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) Framework Agreement.
The First Nation community, located 75 km north of North Battleford in northwestern Saskatchewan, is the fourteenth in the province to reach its minimum shortfall…