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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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A community college student in The Pas, Man. is finding that a school work experience project is reconnecting her with some of the traditional medicine knowledge of her people.
June Bighetty, 31, is in her second year of the Ecotourism program offered at Keewatin Community College. She is using the Sam Waller Museum in The Pas as the base for her research into traditional…
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The president of a Winnipeg company has won the 1999 Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Elaine Cowan, president of the Anokiiwin Training Institute, which provides Aboriginal training, recruitment and employment retention services, accepted the award in Calgary at the Telus Convention Centre Nov. 4.
"Elaine is doing a wonderful job in her training…
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John Mameamskum of the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach was surprised, "very surprised," that his community was nominated for a CANDO Economic Developer Recognition Award for a project that was designed to help the community keep better track of its housing maintenance and repairs.
"Everybody in the South, whether Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal, has the stereotype or…
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Gone are the days when the best way to protect resources was to put them in a safe place and save them in case of an emergency.
These days, people want to make their equity work for them. To do that, they have to use their imagination and take a few risks, or call Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba, one of this year's four winners of CANDO's Economic Developer…
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An Aboriginal conservation company in Nova Scotia was thrilled to win CANDO'S top award-Economic Developer of the Year.
The Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission was selected from among four Aboriginal economic development organizations presented with Recognition Awards.
"We were glad when we were told that we won," said Charlie Dennis, executive director of…
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Six Nations Economic Development was one of four economic developers chosen for CANDO's annual Economic Developer Recognition Award. The organization is a department of the Six Nations Council and has its offices on the Six Nations reserve near Brantford, in southern Ontario.
Six Nations territory is spread over 45,000 acres, or approximately 10 square miles. More than 19…
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CANDO, the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers, announced the winners of its sixth annual Economic Developer Recognition Awards Oct. 12. The award winners, chosen from a lengthy list of nominees, are the Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission (N.S.); Council of Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach (Que.); Six Nations Economic Development (Ont.); and the Tribal…
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AKWESASNE-After twice failing to convince a court that Canada's border should be a barrier to Indigenous people who carry on small scale trade for personal or community use, the federal government decided to take the Mitchell case to the Supreme Court for a final decision. The case dates back to the first court decision in June 1997 in which a judge ruled that Mike Mitchell, a…
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The quest to find out if there can or should be a global strategy to resolve modern, medical ethical dilemmas brought scientists, health care providers, sociologists and other interested parties to a four-day conference hosted by the Canadian Bioethics Society in Edmonton at the end of October. Prof. Madeleine Dion Stout, a member of Kehewin First Nation northeast of Edmonton,…
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Veterans of past wars came home with wounds they received in battle with the enemy, but one First Nation warrior was attacked and wounded by an unseen foe while serving with a peacekeeping mission in 1993.
Master Corporal Philip Tobicoe, 36, a Mohawk from Ontario, has developed several health problems that he's certain are the effects of being exposed to soil and water…
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Traditional counsellor Margaret Wapass radiates warmth, humor and down-to-earth charm.
"But it takes more than a winning smile and a social work degree to be a good traditional counsellor - you have to know where people are coming from, how they were treated in the past," said Wapass.
"Most social workers don't understand Native people and the poor among us. They…
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In recognition of Worlds AIDS Day, people all over the world were wearing a red ribbon on Dec. 1.
The ribbon is an international symbol showing support in the continuing fight against AIDS. It is intended to be a symbol of hope, towards finding a vaccine and a cure that will stop the suffering created by HIV/AIDS.
The idea for the red ribbon came from a small…
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Gordon Sinclair Jr. is angry.
"I've taken so much crap," he said, "and I'm still taking it."
The author of Cowboys and Indians: The Shooting of J.J. Harper was the only Winnipeg journalist to undertake an investigation of the Harper case.
Harper, a Manitoba Aboriginal leader, was killed in a struggle with police officer Robert Cross on March 9, 1988. His…
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Review
Indian Fall: The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy
By D'Arcy Jenish
341 pages, $32 (hc)
Viking/Penguin Canada
Cowboys and Indians: The Shooting of J.J. Harper
By Gordon Sinclair Jr.
400 pages, $34.99 (hc)
McClelland & Stewart
In 1882, after the buffalo had been slaughtered…
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Survival, a UK-based organization of 14,000 members that defends the right to self-determination by Aboriginal peoples, released a 50-page report Nov. 8 entitled Canada's Tibet-the killing of the Innu. It says the Innu of Labrador face imminent extinction as a result of ruthless policy-making by the Canadian state, government and corporate mega-projects, and low-level military…