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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.
With the help and enthusiasm of community volunteers, a struggling radio station serving the regions of the Six Nations and the Mississauga First Nations may enjoy a new lease on life. Fans and supporters of CKRZ (100.3 FM), known as the "Voice of the Grand," have rallied to preserve the unique organization.
Faced with mounting debt and staff lay-offs, the Southern Onkwehon:we Nishinabec…
The Stoney Nakoda Nation is waiting with trepidation for a ruling from the Energy Resources Conservation Board that could approve the construction of a proposed Petro Canada pipeline in closer-than-comfortable proximity to the Eden Valley reserve.
"The pipeline goes within 300 metres of the Eden Valley reserve. There is approximately 650 residents (and) normal ERCB rules provide that such…
A $3.5 million Aboriginal Pavilion will be built in Vancouver in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The project was announced at a press conference in early February by leaders from the Four Hosts First Nations (FHFN) -Lil'wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh-and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC).
"This pavilion will be…
The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) will be using recently announced funding from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada to tackle the issue of seniors abuse in the Aboriginal community, and get a better grasp on the kinds and amount of abuse Aboriginal seniors are continuing to face.
Erin Wolski expects to hear stories about systemic abuse and financial abuse and she…
Basketball may be the hook that pulls youngsters into Friendship House in Prince Rupert, but it's only one of the many tools that long-standing community worker George Sampson and his staff use to help shape the young charges.
The tidy port city of Prince Rupert is set on one of those big islands abutting the B.C. coast and it is busy with new development and some say it's standing on the…
The Chinese New Year's Day parade in Vancouver, B.C., happened to be on Jan. 27, 2009, and was a very cold and wet event this year. Bill Chu who organized an assembly of First Nations in the Main Street parade had to house his guests, the Elders from Sto:lo, Stat'myx, Salish, and Nisga'a Nations, out of the elements during the wait for the march of the dragons. Chu, who has organized similar…
Vindictive to be released in 2009
Artist-Mark Jacob
Album-Vindictive
Release TBA - 2009
Song-Still My Angel
Label- GS Music (Indie)
Written by-Mark Jacob
Too hot, too cold, too young, too old we are never too complex to experience the good and bad of love. A few in life experience true everlasting affection, the other 68 % of society…
Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?
Suzette Amaya: In a friend I value honesty. I believe someone who is honest with themselves and others is someone I can truly feel free to be myself with and share wonderful interactions with. Being true to oneself is a great quality and opens you up to self discovery.
W: What is it that really makes you mad?
S.A.:…
With only a few months left until the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) holds its election for national chief (voting will take place in Calgary in July) the battle for the top spot is beginning to heat up, with three candidates declaring so far: John Beaucage of Ontario, Perry Bellegarde of Saskatchewan and Shawn Atleo of B.C.
While Atleo was unavailable for comment for this article,…
In America, the beginning of this New Year was bright with promise. All the Americans were going nuts over their brand-spankingly fresh president, all new and shiny. Even our Native neighbors to the south were waxing poetic about Barack Obama and his possibilities.
During the presidential campaign, he was even adopted into the Crow Nation. It was so rare to see such enthusiasm in politics…
If you believe in the hype, Canada would be described as peace-keeping, friendly or just plain nice. But much of the world is just not buying that bill of goods anymore.
"I think more countries are getting the picture now and starting to understand that Canada isn't the darling of the human rights world that many people think it is or that it maybe used to be," said Ed Bianchi, Indigenous…
Activist Rose Henry of Sliammon has a list of names she keeps close to her heart. On it are the names of the women who have gone missing from her life-Marnie, Agnes, Belinda, Bobby. She reads out the names on the steps of the BC legislature. Michelle, she says, was a street girl that went missing a few years ago.
"They found her remains, but they still never found who did this, who took…
The pressure to deliver on a revamped truth and reconciliation framework for residential school survivors is being dearly felt, Frank Iacobucci told Windspeaker in an interview in February.
"We are working as fast as we can on this and we know the survivors are very concerned about not having a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and so is everyone else associated with this," said…
THE ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS IS
hopeful that Canada's recent announcement to commit $472,000 over two years to tobacco cessation programs for Inuit youth is a sign of a renewed commitment to restore similar projects for First Nations youth. The First Nations and Inuit Tobacco Control Strategy was cancelled in October 2006, and since there has been no tobacco control strategy for First…
Canada plans to forge ahead with legislation to govern division of on-reserve real property when couples break up despite Aboriginal opposition based on a flawed consultation process and infringement of First Nations jurisdiction.
Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse has been urging First Nations leaders to contact their MPs and federal party leaders to urge that Bill C-8 be opposed at…