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Lance Cardinal welcomed Windspeaker into the Aboriginal Gathering Place at Emily Carr University in Vancouver to have a look at his model of the classic Muppet Theatre, complete with Muppet models, a secret door and a red, draping curtain that actually opens with the pull of a golden rope.
Cardinal, 35, is from the Bigstone Cree Nation at the Calling Lake reserve in Alberta. He built…
The University of Manitoba opened its campus up to showcase three extraordinary Aboriginal sculptures this month that represent core Inuit, First Nation and Métis culture.
In an effort to have more Aboriginal representation on campus, the university sent out a call nationally for art proposals and selected three professional artists to accomplish the work.
“The sculptures are…
Lyndon Suvanto had no idea how much a sport would dominate his life when he was introduced to team handball five years ago.
Suvanto agreed to try out the sport only because his brother’s high school squad was searching for a goalie.
It didn’t take long, however, for Suvanto to make a name for himself with his Onoway High School team.
As it turned out he had a natural knack for…
Members of Akwesasne’s minor professional hockey team can now officially be called champions.
The Akwesasne Warriors captured the inaugural Federal Hockey League (FHL) championship title on March 26 with a 5-2 victory against the visiting New York Aviators.
With that triumph, the Warriors, who play their home games on the Canadian side of the Ontario/New York border Mohawk community…
Bossy Ducharme from Duck Bay, Man. had a vision, and from that vision he made a change that few would consider an easy one.
For one year he will only eat pre-European-contact foods indigenous to North America before colonization brought non-native plants and food sources to this county.
Why is he doing this? He says what began as a year-long documentary film project turned into a…
Event helps reward
Family and friends of a pair of Aboriginal teenagers that were last seen in Quebec three years ago are organizing a run/walk to raise funds for the reward to help find the girls. Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander were 16 and 17, respectively, when they were last seen in early September of 2008 in Maniwaki, Que. So far more than $16,000 has been raised…
A FISHING STRATEGY FOR 27
First Nations across northeastern Ontario will be developed by the Waubetek Business Development Corporation on Manitoulin Island. The Whitefish River-based organization received more than $44,000 from FedNor, a regional development organization, and will use it to enhance First Nations involvement in commercial fisheries, aquaculture, fish…
One of the largest ever contracts awarded by BC Hydro to a First Nations has been given to Sexqeltkemc of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation.
As part of the regeneration program to meet British Columbia’s growing need for electricity, BC Hydro announced that Horizon North Camps and Catering Partnership will develop a temporary “home away from home” for about 250 contractor employees…
Artist—Colette Trudeau
Song—Freeze
Album—Colette Trudeau
Label—Independent
Back in the late 1970’s, an artist named Pat Benatar broke the airwaves with a music style few women had ventured into and survived. Benatar proved year after year that she could rock with the best of them, scoring hit after hit and demonstrating that women had a place in the rock music industry.…
DEAR AUNTIE COLUMN
Dear Auntie:
My 15-year-old daughter just told me that she is expecting. I want to be happy that a new life will be brought into the world, but I have to admit I’m very disappointed that my baby is having a baby. I always encouraged all my kids (five) to do well in school and have a career. I thought she was on the right track, but now not…
Indigenous communities in the United States have the highest rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome [SIDS], according to information collected by the National Institute of Health in the U.S.
And in Canada the situation is the same.
The data, which was presented at the 4th International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health this March in Vancouver, states that in the US SIDS is two to…
A new approach to crime prevention is expected to have a positive impact in the city that is home to the second largest urban Aboriginal population in the country.
“We’re learning how to better engage the Aboriginal community in crime prevention in a cultural context, and that’s what’s important about this in terms of the initiative,” said Kate Gunn, executive director for the REACH…
When we hear the name Jane Goodall, most of us think of a woman who studied chimpanzees for 45 years.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth can say, however, that the name stands for much more.
Jane Goodall started the Roots & Shoots program for youth in 1991 after being approached by a group of 16 teenagers in Tanzania eager to discuss with her a range of problems that caused…
ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS (AFN)
National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo was in Alderville First Nation April 20 for the launch of an Indigenous learning program designed jointly by Alderville First Nation and Lakefield College School. The event marked the start of First Nation-specific programming in the Lakefield private school’s curriculum. The Indigenous learning program…
Aboriginal artist Daphne Odjig of Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island, Ont. now has the honor of having her paintings published as a series of postage stamps.
Canada Post announced Feb. 21 the unveiling of three stamps, each showing a different painting created by the artist.
The three paintings displayed on the stamps are entitled Spiritual Renewal (1984),…