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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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Monkey Beach
By Eden Robinson
384 pages (hc), $32.95
Knopf Canada
Eden Robinson's literary career is certainly off to a running start. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of stories published in 1996, received the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction in the Commonwealth, and was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice and…
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The need for more than just a basic understanding of complex legal issues - matters that usually require several years of work in a reputable law school -is an unfortunate fact of life for Aboriginal people in Canada.
So politics addicts and those who are fascinated by things legal have cause to celebrate: the latest versions of Carswell Publishing's Native law textbooks…
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Ahtahkakoop: The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, His People, and Their Struggle for Survival 1816-1896
By Deanna Christensen
850 pages (hc), $49.95
Ahtahkakoop Publishing
Ahtahkakoop is an ambitious volume that presents, in minute detail, the life story of Chief Ahtahkakoop (Starblanket) and, by extension, the culture and history of the…
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Anyone who is familiar with the rock explosion of the late sixties and seventies knows that most of the bands coming out of the Los Angeles area - Van Halen, KISS, Ratt, Poison, and Motley Crue - played at clubs like the Troubadour or the Whiskey a Go-Go, as it was known then. This was an era when most kids dreamt of picking up a guitar and playing those clubs as well.
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The best in Aboriginal talent from across the country is coming to your television set every Friday, on Buffalo Tracks.
The hour-long talk show, hosted by Evan Adams, is broadcast on APTN, and has quickly become the network's highest rated show. Adams, who is better known as an actor than as a talk show host, became involved in the show through his past work with Buffalo…
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Roy Thomas is one of the foremost senior artists of the Woodland style in the Great Lakes region. In the 1980s, art critics linked him with "the younger generation" of Woodland artists after Norval Morriseau and Daphne Odjig in a period bridged by Carl Ray. Thomas has since participated in solo and group exhibitions from New Mexico to Munich, across Asia and Canada. His work…
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The Washington Power is an expansion club in the National Lacrosse League, but the club will have a rather familiar face in lacrosse circles behind the bench for its inaugural campaign.
Darris Kilgour, who hails from the Tuscarora reservation near Niagara Falls, N.Y., has been appointed the Power's first bench boss.
The Power will play its home games in Washington…
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Brandon Nolan's father Ted made it to the National Hockey League, first as a player then as a coach. And no doubt the 17-year-old would love to follow in his father's footsteps and play professionally one day.
For now, Brandon Nolan is learning the ins and outs of the Ontario Hockey League, where he's a rookie forward with the Oshawa Generals. Nolan was selected by the…
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The great-grand niece of the Metis people's greatest leader publicly chastised a representative of the government of Ontario during a ceremony on Nov. 16 commemorating the achievements of Louis Riel.
Jean Teillet, renowned Aboriginal lawyer, declared the MPP for Dufferin-Peel's comments "shockingly inappropriate."
David Tilson, speaking for provincial Minister of…
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It was a long wait but the Manitoba Treaty Land Entitlement Framework Agreement finally received royal assent Oct. 20. The legislation to see land reach reserve status faster was signed May 29, 1997, between the Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) Committee of Manitoba and the province.
The bill will set aside 1.1 million acres of land for 20 First Nations that have outstanding…
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Garrett Campiou, also a member of the Chalifoux, Dumont and Lefthand families, died at 10:43 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15. For 12 days the strapping 14-year-old Cree boy had been in hospital on life support following a severe and brutal beating on Nov. 3.
His life ebbed as he was removed from life support. One of his three grandmothers sang a Cree death song she had learned…
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Plans are in the works for an organizational meeting that could be the first step in the creation of a national grassroots organization of former residential school students.
Alvin Tolley, a Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg First Nation (Maniwaki, Que.) resident, and Walter Rudnicki, a former federal bureaucrat who is now an Ottawa-based consultant who advises First Nations across…
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As Salt River First Nation moves close to cementing its treaty land entitlement deal with the federal and territorial governments, it may mean economic growth and self-determination for one group of the region's Native people while it marginalizes their Metis cousins.
Once Salt River gets its reserve, the Metis may be in the position of depending on the generosity of those…
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The Gitxsan chiefs are going back to court to challenge elements of the landmark Supreme Court of Canada Degamuukw decision.
They will argue the decision violates the constitution by allowing Aboriginal rights to be infringed upon.
"Delgamuukw made certain pronouncements. It did say that there were unextinguished Aboriginal rights," said Gitxsan chief negotiator,…
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Over the past several years I have written many articles discussing the concept of the "blended blood" issue in the Native community. In fact, I have even been admonished by one Elder to "get over it." Evidently I am dangerously close to becoming the poster boy for people of mixed societies (otherwise known as pms). If the truth be told, I have actually gotten over whatever "it"…