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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.
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When people say someone is so generous they'd give you the shirt off of their back, they are usually speaking figuratively. With Clarence Campeau, that statement could be taken at face value.
Campeau was a man known for his generosity, for his sense of humor and for his dedication to improving the lot of the Metis people of Saskatchewan.
Campeau was born in 1947…
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The University of New Zealand will host the seventh annual World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 2005. The conference will be opened by the Moari Queen Dame Te Atairangikaahu who visited southern Alberta in 2002 when Morley hosted the event.
The event includes keynote speakers from around the world, seminars, workshops, and an array of…
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A new Web site has been developed for practitioners of Aboriginal early childhood development. The first of its kind, www.accel-capeaca, is a clearinghouse of information including a bulletin board, calendar of events and database of research resources on best and promising practices and links to training and…
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An agreement signed Nov. 5 will focus the efforts of nursing associations to encourage the participation of Aboriginal people in the nursing profession.
The agreement was signed by the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada (ANAC), the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU), and the Aboriginal Workforce Participation Initiative.
The agreement promises that…
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The idea of incorporating Aboriginal perspectives, content and knowledge into the school curriculum isn't a new one, but it's one that has taken time to catch on. And the extent to which it is being done varies from province to province, and from school district to school district and from school to school within each province.
Incorporating Aboriginal content and…
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Coyote's New Suit
by Thomas King
Key Porter Books ($19.95)
If you have a young reader in the family and you want to start him or her off with a quality author, then there is no better writer than Thomas King. In this, King's second children's book, Coyote brags about his toasty brown suit, but his confidence that it is the finest fur in the forest is shaken…
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Why do they write?
Storykeepers: Conversations with Aboriginal Writers
By Jennifer David
Ningwakwe Learning Press
$14.95 (sc)
If you really want to know what it means to be a writer in Canada-an Aboriginal writer-give Storykeepers: Conversations with Aboriginal Writers a read. It's more than just a collection of pretty profiles of some Metis,…
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PRO BONO
Dear Tuma:
I'm a non-status Native living off reserve in Canada. My mother is a status and lives on reserve. Now I had heard that I can work in the United States of America and wanted to know how I can do this.
Unemployed Snowbird
Dear Unemployed:
There are a couple of ways to obtain a job in the United States. For many Indigenous…
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URBANE INDIAN
The gods of Air Canada had deemed it necessary to place me in the most uncomfortable seat possible; the one in the middle row of four. There I sat, all six feet, 196 lbs. of me for 16 hours, including the two hours we spent on the runway waiting to take off. Maybe the crowded airplane seats would serve to acclimatize the passengers to a country with a…
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All the Indians are dead in America. They killed them all. There's no more.
"The guy who said that to me didn't understand what Native people were," said Alexander Binette, the 25-year-old Kanesatake Mohawk member of a band called Peaches 'n' Cream currently touring Asia.
"People over here are surprised that we still exist and that we have our own language and…
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Sheila Fraser and her staff released a report card on Indian education and have given the department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) a failing grade.
The auditor general said INAC does not know whether funding to First Nations is sufficient to meet the education standards it has set or whether the results achieved are in line with the resources provided. The…
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Two decisions handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada on Nov. 18 were cheered by First Nation leaders across Canada.
In Haida Nation v. British Columbia and Taku River Tlingit First Nation v. British Columbia, Canada's court of last resort was unanimous in firming up gray areas in Aboriginal law.
In the Haida case the Haida Nation argued that the province and…
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Saskatoon Police Chief Russell Sabo fired Constables Larry Hartwig and Bradley Senger on Nov. 12. The officers had been suspended with pay since just after Stonechild Inquiry Chief Commissioner Justice David Wright concluded that Neil Stonechild had been in their custody shortly before his frozen body was found in an industrial area on the outskirts of the city.
Wright…
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The seven chiefs of the Okanagan Nation are not willing to watch more of their young citizens die tragically.
A week after three young men were killed and three others injured on the Penticton Indian Band's reserve in a dispute over drugs, the chiefs of the seven southern British Columbia Interior communities met in Kelowna to discuss the tragedy.
On Nov. 10, they…