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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.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, but if it’s clearly in need of repair, roll up your sleeves and ‘get ‘er done.’ And what is clearly broke is the hosting model being employed by the North American Indigenous Games Council.
Every year that the games are to be hosted in the United States we brace ourselves for the inevitable announcement that the event has been cancelled.
What is…
An award-winning radio show, Healing Perspectives, spearheaded by a group of Indigenous Studies students at Victoria’s Camosun College, is diversifying the talk show genre by mirroring a traditional healing circle on air.
The groundbreaking weekly one hour spot currently airing on Camosun’s radio station, CKMO, won the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Aboriginal Affairs and Cultural…
Games in Milwaukee cancelled
The 2011 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) will not be held in Milwaukee. And there’s a possibility the games will not be held at all next year. The games were scheduled to be staged in the Wisconsin city from July 10 to 17, 2011. But on June 29, just over a year before the games were set to open, the NAIG Council announced it was…
To lose someone close to your heart is the most agonizing and devastating thing that anyone has to go through. Yet every minute of every day someone is hurting because of the loss of a loved one. I never fully understood why people go through depression or sadness differently, until I experienced it myself. And for those of you that have climbed that big mountain of hurt and sadness and…
Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?
Howie Miller: Height. Someone with good height can reach things I cannot. They tend to be able to see further. Their shoes are really big so if I wanted to do a clown show, I’d have that option.
W: What is it that really makes you mad?
H.M.: When the TV listings are wrong. I make popcorn, get some sodas, clean the…
Shannen Koostachin threw a small pebble in a big pond that caused ripples to reverberate across the country.
But the stone had barely left her hand when, shockingly, she was killed in a motor vehicle accident on an Ontario highway.
At only 15, the Mushkego Innanu James Bay Cree from Attawapiskat First Nation garnered national attention when she confronted federal minister of Indian…
MIKE METATAWABIN OF THE
Nishnawbe Aski Nation writes in Wawatay News Online that the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will damage the wintering grounds of the waterfowl that are an essential part of the diet of the Nishnawbe Aski people. Geese and ducks use the Mississippi floodway and are not only a low-cost source of protein, “compared to the high cost of bringing…
THE SASKATCHEWAN INDIAN GAMING ASSOCIATION (SIGA)
has donated $50,000 to provide relief for the Kawacatoose First Nation, hit by a tornado on July 2. This brings the total of funds raised for the community to more than $62,000. The tornado flattened a dozen homes at Kawacatoose, located about an hour-and-a-half north of Regina. SIGA and the Federation of Saskatchewan…
Ninoon Dawah handed out turkey, ham and cheese sandwiches on June 16, the first day of the inaugural event hosted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Winnipeg.
The young man from Sandy Bay First Nation in Manitoba said in a soft voice that his grandmother and mother had both attended residential schools.
“It was so hard for them,” said Dawah. “My grandmother got hit…
The federal government will be repealing sections of the Indian Act that allow Indian residential schools to operate.
The announcement was made by Indian and Northern Affairs minister Chuck Strahl to applause and cheers at the first national event for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, held mid-June in Winnipeg.
“In parallel with our broader work on education reform, my…
A box crafted with the pain that one grandmother suffered while attending residential school sat in the centre of the first sharing circle hosted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the TRC’s inaugural national event in Winnipeg June 16 to 19.
When Coast Salish artist Luke Marston started working on the box, he asked his mother to tell him stories about his grandmother’s time…
Paul Daniels sat by himself, the Assiniboine River his backdrop at the Forks National Park, as he ate a bagged lunch courtesy of the churches.
For Daniels, it’s the least the churches could do. He’s waiting on a hearing through the independent assessment process to see how much financial compensation he will receive for the sexual abuse he suffered during his eight years as a day…
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, but if it’s clearly in need of repair, roll up your sleeves and ‘get ‘er done.’ And what is clearly broke is the hosting model being employed by the North American Indigenous Games Council.
Every year that the games are to be hosted in the United States we brace ourselves for the inevitable announcement that the event has been cancelled.
What is…
Environmental protection core to agreement
The Tahltan Nation has signed an impact benefit agreement with Coast Mountain Hydro LP, a subsidiary of AltaGas Income Trust for the Forest Kerr run-of-river hydroelectric project in Tahltan traditional territory in northwest B.C. The agreement comprises environmental protections, cultural resource protections and economic…
There’s urgent need for reform of laws stacked against First Nations in their relationship with the mining industry in British Columbia, a study by the prestigious Harvard Law School concludes.
In theory, Canadian law and the international treaties Canada is a party to protect First Nations from development that threatens their environment and culture, the two being closely intertwined…