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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.
Limiting the collection of data to those who resided in Fort Chipewyan has skewed the findings of Alberta Health Services' report on cancer cases in the community 600 km northeast of Edmonton. And with that claim, the Nunee Health Board is insisting that its name be removed from the final report.
"We did not endorse the study. We were not an active partner in it," said Claudia Simpson,…
Limiting the collection of data to those who resided in Fort Chipewyan has skewed the findings of Alberta Health Services' report on cancer cases in the community 600 km northeast of Edmonton. And with that claim, the Nunee Health Board is insisting that its name be removed from the final report.
"We did not endorse the study. We were not an active partner in it," said Claudia Simpson,…
Occasionally we walk into museums or stores and come across an example of the cedar bark weaving common to the Pacific Coast peoples, and we get a glimpse of their magnificent civilizations.
Kerri-Lynne Emily Dick, 26, is a master weaver in the tradition of the Haida, Kwaguilth, Tlingit, and Kootenay peoples.
To her, cedar weaving comes to her as naturally as breathing.
"That's…
The presentation was made during the Gathering Our Voices 2009 youth conference hosted in Kelowna by the B.C. Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres. The conference, held annually, brings together young people ages 14 to 24 to explore traditional language, culture, leadership initiatives, and employment opportunities. Kwu Sukwna'qinx is a youth leadership group from the Penticton Indian…
The Little NHL Tournament seems to be a hit, regardless of where it is held.
The annual Aboriginal youth hockey event, which is organized by the Little Native Hockey League (LNHL) and has been running for 38 years, is for the most part usually held in either Sudbury or Sault Ste. Marie.
But this year's tournament, which ran from March 16 to March 19, was hosted for the first time by…
The 16th annual National Aboriginal Achievement Awards (NAAA) gala took place on March 6 at the Centennial Concert Hall in downtown Winnipeg and this year's theme was "spirit."
Both the Cree and Ojibway people of the Winnipeg area use that to describe Manitoba. The Ojibway refer to Manitoba as Manitouthe embodiment of spirit. The Cree say Manitou Ah Behwhere the spirit lives.
The…
Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?
Robyn Goodwin: The quality I value most in a friend is trust. I believe, in this day and age, for young women you have to be strong and have a firm belief in humanity to be able to possess this quality. I also think that trust works both ways and that you also have to be trustworthy.
W: What is it that really makes you…
A pair of teenagers from the same Thunder Bay high school were named as the top Aboriginal athletes in Ontario for 2008.
Eric Slipperjack, a football player at Sir Winston Churchill High School, was chosen as the best male athlete.
And Nancy Indian, a five-sport athlete at the school who specializes in volleyball, was picked as the top female athlete.
Both Slipperjack and Indian…
Last November, a special ceremony to install a permanent tipi was held at Carleton University. The event was meant to showcase the rich heritage and important role that the Aboriginal community plays on campus. At that ceremony, the idea of creating an Aboriginal Vision Committee was unveiled and the Committee was officially launched in September.
"This committee will provide better…
Ever since she was a little girl, Shirley Haynes has wanted to be a teacher, but when she graduated from high school, her financial situation put attending university to pursue her dream out of her reach.
A dozen years later, Haynes finally got a chance to begin her post-secondary education, but she said if she’d known back then what she knows now, she could have begun her studies…
There are six Aboriginal students enrolled in the Northern Medical Program (NMP) offered at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), and while those numbers are far from staggering, they do put the program ahead of many other medical programs in the country when it comes to Aboriginal representation within the student population.
Those six Aboriginal students represent eight…
The University of Winnipeg (U of W) is helping to open the door to post-secondary education for inner city children and youth through its newly launched Opportunity Fund.
The goal of the Opportunity Fund is to make attending the U of W an achievable goal for young Aboriginal students and young people from war-affected nations and refugee populations.
The impact of the new fund…
I was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan. My mother and grandparents were born in Canada. I have status with the Delaware First Nation at Moraviantown in Ontario. My wife Dora M. Johns, crane clan of the Ojibwa (Anishinabe), was born in Detroit and has status at the Walpole Island First Nation, Ontario. Her mother and grandfather were also born in Canada. Her grandmother was born in the United…
Your drive to the local grocery store may or may not include views of snow-capped peaks and expansive valleys dotted with the stunted pines one sees in northern climates just south of the tree line. But then again, your drive to the grocery store probably doesn’t take six hours each way.
Such is life in the town of Beaver Creek, Yukon, located at kilometre 1,934 (historical mile 1202) of…
Josée Guest, the staff Ombudsman for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), first started raising alerts about the way the department deals with employee disability issues in her second annual report in 2003.
As the person designated to help employees struggling with disabling injuries or illnesses—as well as other matters—Guest hears from many INAC employees. As with any large…