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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.
This October, more than 800 children and youth in grades 3 to 12 in Northern Ontario learned how to make their own film with a visit from Special Delivery, a year-round project of the Toronto International Film Festival Group.
This project, which began in 2002, usually reaches out to youth in under-served regions of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). This was the first year that the program…
The 2009 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) are still more than half a year away.
But Darryl Bauer doesn't mind making a rather bold prediction for the tournament, which will be staged in Winnipeg next May.
"It's going to be the best one yet," said Bauer, who was the bid committee chairman for the Manitoba group that was awarded the hosting rights for the 2009 NAHC.…
Thunder Bay's AHL is ready for regular season
Following a one-year hiatus, the Thunder Bay's Aboriginal Hockey League is back bigger and better than ever.
The league, which began its regular season play in mid-October, features six teams this season. That's the largest amount of squads the circuit, commonly referred to as the AHL, has had since its inception in the late 1990s.…
Breastfeeding has long been known as the optimal form of feeding a baby. In fact, it is reported that no other form of feeding equals the benefits that breastfeeding provides. However, due to unforeseen issues in B.C. prisons, those benefits will have to be brushed aside.
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the representative for children and youth, in British Columbia, is fighting to ensure that…
The hope of restoring good will between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people has been manifested in the form of a new school program, meant to enhance the Native studies curriculum in the Six Nations area.
Zig Misiak, a Canadian of Polish descent, and Raymond Skye, Tuscarora of the Six Nations, are co-creators of the Six Nations Iroquois Clans program.
"We sought balance between…
Northern communities in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba can now benefit from broader services by satellite thanks to an agreement signed in Kuujjuaq, a community in Quebec's Nunavik region.
An official signing ceremony formalized the joint venture partnership between the Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO), the Keewatin Tribal Council (KTC) and the Kativik Regional Government (KRG), and then,…
Artist-Teagan Littlechief
Album-Rising Above
Song-One Woman
Label- Independent
Producer-Johnny Gasparic
Reading the list of accomplishments of Teagan Littlechief one would think that she's been in the music business for many years. At the age of 14, she recorded her first demo single and at the age of 15 she won a local Star Search competition in Saskatchewan. This…
Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?
Robert Animikii Horton: Integrity. Integrity is everything.
W: What is it that really makes you mad?
R.A.H.: Honestly? When our young men do not respect our women. One cannot respect seven generations forward, or the future, if they cannot respect those who make each possible.
W: When are you at your happiest…
As an astronomer, Rob Cardinal has spent an inordinate amount of time gazing up into the night sky. But now, following a discovery he made in early October, one of the celestial objects he will be viewing during his surveys of the sky will be a comet that bears his name.
Cardinal, the astronomer, first spotted Cardina,l the comet-also known as C/2008 T2-on Oct. 1 while he was performing…
An old saying suggests that, "the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach." However, a culinary arts program, which is home to approximately 75 helpful programs is proving that it is also the best way into the job market.
The Kla-how-eya Aboriginal Centre of SACS, located in Surrey, B.C. has been in existence since 1996. Their mandate is to improve the health and well-being of…
First Nations, Métis and Inuit students will one day have a place to call home away from home at the University of Alberta, thanks largely to a one-million-dollar gift made by Chancellor Eric Newell and wife Kathy.
Their donation will help support the construction of a gathering place that will "embrace and provide an inclusive and supportive learning and living environment for…
The Bill Reid gallery in Vancouver B.C has so far fulfilled its initial purpose since its opening this May. The focus of the new institution is to facilitate and present exhibitions of modern Northwest Coast First Nations art in a significant context.
"The Bill Reid Foundation has an extensive collection of Reid's work. The gallery was established to pay tribute to Bill Reid, one of…
A new level of mutual benefit will be achieved in Ontario between the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Brad Duguid and Treaty 3 leader Diane M. Kelly. A letter of intent was signed in early October with goals to increase capacity building and resolve land disputes.
"I think it's a start, a good start. I really enjoyed my discussion with Minister Duguid. I appreciate the access that we have…
Aboriginal communities across Canada are at the forefront of a campaign to end mining laws rooted in the 19th century view that mineral extraction is the best use of any land, and that governments' top priority is to facilitate exploration and mining.
The pressure is most intense in British Columbia and Ontario where a number of on-the-ground confrontations and ground-breaking court…
A number of weeks ago, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty shuffled his cabinet, moving the very capable Michael Bryant, minister of Aboriginal Affairs, up the food chain to Economic Development.
The former attorney general of the province had been appointed the first ever minister of the newly created Aboriginal portfolio in October of 2007. Less than a year!
Since nature (and politics…