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Open letter to all chiefs and councils in Saskatchewan:
Knowledge. This one word embodies what all individuals strive for in life. The knowledge to know whom one is, where one comes from and what one believes in. At this moment in time, knowledge must be looked at in terms of education and the ability to know where one stands in life.
This is an open letter to the…
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Dear Editor:
Congratulations and pats on the back to reporter Laura Stevens for her great job covering the North American Indigenous Games. She did a wonderful job. The pictures were wonderful. The write-up was great. In fact I read the paper from back to front.
Thank you,
Fred Van der Hooft
Sudbury, Ont.
The following article was written by Mi'kmaq writer and historian Daniel N. Paul following the death of former Horton First Nation Chief Rita Smith. Written to honor Smith?s life and accomplishments, the story was originally published in the Halifax Herald in January 1997.
Chief Rita Smith, the mother of the Horton band, had the distinction of being the first woman (perhaps the first…
The Pacific Educational Press has published a book by Snuneymuxw Elder and storyteller Ellen Rice White, whose stories, though ancient, are ageless and have surprisingly modern relevance.
Legends and Teachings of Xeel's, the Creator deals in tales about how a mother can help her baby survive and thrive, how a community can prevent pre-teens from becoming angry and rebellious, how people…
A University of Victoria law student has garnered Canada's premier social sciences and humanities doctoral award & the Trudeau Scholarship.
Dawnis Kennedy is an Anishinabe woman currently completing a master of Laws degree at UVic. She is one of 15 Canadian students to be named a 2006 Trudeau Scholar. Created in 2003, the Trudeau Foundation Scholarship program awards the largest…
Thompson Rivers University's Open Learning division has recognized the achievements of a national leader in Aboriginal education with an honorary doctorate in letters bestowed in Burnaby on June 15.
Nathan Matthew is a member of the Simpcw Nation. He attended the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with a bachelor of recreation education degree in 1972. He then went on to…
The basic problem of the Native people of Canada is colonialism. This is the underlying problem of Native grievances. This is the government of Canada' s Indian problem. Jean Chretien, the prime minister during the years 1993 to 2003 realized this way back in 1969 when he was minister of Indian Affairs, when he presented the Indian policy statement in parliament, although he never mentioned…
Dear Tuma:
Can an office staff person contact maintenance enforcement without an employee's written consent and inform enforcement that the employee has started working full time? What about when the employee is in arrears? What about the staff from the welfare office? Can they request information about the new employee?s income without the employee's consent? Does the staff have to…
I remember seeing the New Zealand film Once Were Warriors, and noticing it had an odd, uncomfortable resonance in my First Nations soul, even though it was a Maori story. Same with Rabbit Proof Fence, a movie about Australian Aboriginal children. All were films about different cultures that impacted me on a surprisingly Ojibway level. Little did I realize I was doing much the same thing with…
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,…
A fledging organization that promises to combine the best programming of western Canada's Aboriginal broadcast stations has an exciting vision. Barry Walls, general manager for station CFNR in British Columbia, which plays classic rock to 30,000 people in Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert areas, said that the four western provinces have a wealth of Aboriginal programming.
"But we're…
Of course the teams participating in the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) wanted to win as many medals as they could for their regions, but athletes, coaches and supporters say there is much more to the games than the hardware.
"I told the kids to go out there and have fun and build relationships with the other youth because that's what it's all about," said Duane Waukau, chef de…
The excitement of the thousands of spectators gathered for the ceremonies that would kick off the 2006 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) in Denver intensified as the 7,000-plus athletes representing 31 delegations from across Canada and the United States streamed on to INVESCO Field on July 2.
As emcees Waneek Horn-Miller and Drew Lacapa welcomed each team into the 1.8-million sq.…
The First Nations University of Canada (FNUC) is set to commemorate 30 years of operations this fall-three years spent in its present form as a university and 27 as the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College'but only time will tell how much the institution will have to celebrate.
That's because this fall the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) is set to conduct a…