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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.
As resource companies line up to pay multi-million dollar royalty fees to the provincial government for the right to harvest the vast untapped resource wealth of northern Ontario, First Nations have served notice that their interests can no longer be ignored.
Two remote Ontario First Nations find themselves at ground zero in the battle to bring a halt to the jurisdictional ping pong game…
After more than a decade of international intrigue, the United Nations draft declaration on Indigenous rights will finally go before the UN general assembly for ratification later this year, despite the efforts of Canadian government representatives.
The June 29 vote of the new 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council, which replaces the much criticized UN Human Rights Commission,…
An open letter to Vice-Chief Morley Watson:
My grandfather, John R. McLeod, and my late my grandmother, Ida McLeod, helped to build the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College and also the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College. This, in turn, became the First Nations University of Canada. I have worked for the university for the last 10 years. I have many shortcomings, but I have given my…
Dear Editor:
The Free Trade Agreement and fantastic globalized trade improvements have given Canada greater prosperity. So say our Canadian corporate heads and our government leaders of the last 20 years. And that is true for about the 20 per cent upper-income part of our population.
Not so for the rest of us, and certainly not for the 20 per cent at the lowest income level and the…
Dear Editor:
Hi. I am an inmate doing time in the Northern Treatment Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. I am writing to you to voice my opinion and let others know of how our ceremonies are being dishonored. Is it not bad enough that when doing the sweat we have to heat our grandfathers with propane on a barbecue-like surface with no sacred fire, but then also to dishonor the ceremony by…
Dear Editor:
I’m a Migmaw from Nova Scotia. We had National Aboriginal Day in Nova Scotia, and I know everybody did across the country, but a lot of the people I talked to said there was only one thing missing. We don’t have a national flag across the country. The Canadians have a national flag, the American’s have a flag and the Acadians have their national flag and Nova Scotia has the…
Dear Editor:
I’m a Migmaw from Nova Scotia. We had National Aboriginal Day in Nova Scotia, and I know everybody did across the country, but a lot of the people I talked to said there was only one thing missing. We don’t have a national flag across the country. The Canadians have a national flag, the American’s have a flag and the Acadians have their national flag and Nova Scotia has the…
We read with dismay the letter Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote to the editor of the Calgary Herald in mid-July announcing that he would initiate a judicial inquiry into the decline of the Fraser River salmon fishery.
The decline of any irreplaceable natural resource should be the subject of a far-reaching and non-political inquiry. There should be no sacred cows, no no-go zones. No…
Walter Perry Deiter was born May 31, 1916 on the Peepeekisis reserve in southeastern Saskatchewan. Although both his parents could speak their traditional languages-his father Cree and his mother Saulteaux-they did not…
First Nation high school students in British Columbia learned the art of entrepreneurship this spring with the guidance of volunteer college students and a program called Opening Doors.
Mount Currie high school students managed businesses that included Lil'wat Cinema, a T-shirt company called MC Wear and a drop-in soccer night. Students at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (…
Five luminaries of the Indigenous film and communication arts community were celebrated at the 11th annual Dreamspeakers Film Festival in Edmonton on June 10.
Their hands and signatures were cast in cement as the second set of inductees into the Dreamspeakers organization's Walk of Honour.
Producer/director Alanis Obomsawin smiled broadly as she planted her hands in the wet…
A world champion dragon boat racer and a member of the Canadian men's volleyball team have been selected as the national winners of the 2005 Tom Longboat Award.
Toronto's Marisha Roman, who helped Canada win five medals (three gold, two silver) at last year's world dragon boat championships in Germany, was chosen as the national female recipient. Dallas Soonias, who hails from Red Deer…
An Aboriginal training institute is doing everything it can to create opportunities for Winnipeg’s Aboriginal workforce.
The Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development Inc. (CAHRD) received close to $380,000 for one of their skill development programs on April 16, and they continue to keep their fingers crossed for funding to keep their work going.
“Our budget is around $6…
Though he’s been a professional golfer since 2007, Mitchell Fox is still trying to figure out whether he has what it takes to make a living out of the sport.
So far in his pro career, Fox, who is from Alberta’s Blood Reserve, has racked up considerably more expenses than earnings. For example, last year he played in nine events on the Canadian Professional Golf Tour. Fox, who lives in…
How long does it take for a Mobile TeleOphthalmology Project to go from dream to reality, asked Norman Lewsey, executive director of the Inter Tribal Health Authority (ITHA) on Vancouver Island.
Five long years, he said.
Not so surprising then that the launch of the project would be turned into a big event, complete with feast and speeches from some of the people who had devoted…