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Through determination and honesty, Saskatchewan film-maker Rueben Martell is trying to bring to the screen a film about the realities of Native people as they live today.
Martell began filming A Life Less Empty last year but had to halt production when funding for the project ran out. Martell describes the film as a Native love story with a legacy of abuse, love and…
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An important and tragic piece of Canadian history is being recreated this summer in the Qu'Appelle Valley, as cast and crew work on a miniseries based on Saskatchewan author Guy Vanderhaeghe's award-winning novel, The Englishman's Boy.
Set in the early 1870s, the story follows a young American boy venturing west with his English employer. When the Englishman dies…
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The Crown Investments Corporation of Saskatchewan (CIC) has announced a financial commitment of more than $400,000 to help increase education opportunities for Aboriginal students.
On Aug. 17, the Crown corporation announced funding of close to $103,000 for the Aboriginal Success in Trades and Technologies program, a one-year pilot project to be run by the Saskatchewan…
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Metis people living in Saskatchewan will continue to have access to education and training services despite the government's decision to sever its ties with the Metis Employment and Training of Saskatchewan Inc. (METSI), Diane Finley, the minister of Human Resources and Social Development announced.
Up until March 31, METSI, the employment and training arm of the Metis…
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The government is looking for young people interested in becoming members of the Provincial Youth Advisory Committee.
Since its creation in 2003, the committee has advised the government on issues such as youth attraction and retention, education, leadership, employment and training.
Youth between the ages of 14 and 29 are encouraged to apply to join the advisory…
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People living in remote parts of Saskatchewan will soon have access to trades training without having to leave their home communities, thanks to the new Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) mobile training lab.
The $1.6 million training lab, unveiled on Sept. 6 in Prince Albert, is a tractor trailer unit with pop-out sides that transform it into…
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Thirty years have passed since the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College first opened its doors.
In the intervening years it's grown from a insitution with nine students to one with an average annual enrolment of more than 1,200. It's also expanded to take in three campuses, located in Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert, and to offer a wide variety of programs through its…
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It's hard for Dennis Bear not to feel completely alone at times.
The Flying Dust First Nation man has a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter named Summer Angel with a very rare disease -one so rare that only 42 people on earth have it.
Since being diagnosed with Hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinemia,,better known as Triple H Syndrome, Summer has had to…
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When most people think of forests and economic opportunities, their thoughts turn to trees and all the items they are transformed into, from lumber for construction to pulp used to make paper products. But for one couple in Green Lake, wood products are just one part of what can be harvested from Saskatchewan's northern woods.
"We've been looking at the trees and now it's…
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On Aug. 17, a dozen youth from Sturgeon Lake First Nation and James Smith Cree Nation became the first graduates from Saskatchewan's fledgling Junior Forest Ranger program.
Kelsie Bighead, Mervin Bosdi, Katie Burns, Ryan Ironchild, Regan Lambert, Shannon Sanderson and Clarence Turner Jr. from Sturgeon Lake and Trevor Head, Adam Sanderson, Chantal Sanderson and Lacy…
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The federal government will be providing Whitecap Dakota First Nation with $2.1 million in funding to allow the First Nation to make the infrastructure improvements needed before it can go ahead with its planned commercial ventures.
Those ventures include a casino, a hotel and spa, an RV park and campground, an ice arena and a light industrial park as well as retail and…
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It will truly be a time to celebrate at the 2006 First Nations Cultural Celebration and Powwow being held in Saskatoon Oct. 27 to 29, as the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, one of the event's hosts, uses the powwow to celebrate its 60th anniversary.
The powwow, which will take place at the Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon, will also be a celebration of the Year…
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Cree country crooner Shane Yellowbird will be the featured entertainer on Oct. 5 as the Saskatchewan First Nation's Women's Commission (SFNWC) hosts its second annual banquet celebrating First Nations Women's Day.
Celebrating the Seasons of Our Lives will be the theme of the event, which will be held in Centennial Hall A and B of the T.C.U. Place Arts and Convention Centre…
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Curtis Peeteetuce is an actor, director, playwright and musician. As of Sept. 1, he is also the Saskatoon Public Library's Writer in Residence.
Peeteetuce, who is from Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation, has been involved in the arts since 2001 when he first stepped onto the stage as part of the cast of Love Songs from a War Drum, produced through the Saskatchewan Native…
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The number of Aboriginal students completing high school is still lagging well behind the national average, according to a report released recently by the Caledon Institute of Public Policy.
According to figures contained in Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada, which were calculated based on information contained in the 2001 census, approximately 43…