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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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Dr. Ron Martin likes being his own boss. In fact, that was one of reasons why he chose a career in dentistry.
"When you're your own boss, you can set your own hours, you can work when you want to, hire who you want to. There's a lot of flexibility. If there's certain events or things happening, you can schedule around it," said Martin.
A member of the Fond-Du-Lac…
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The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) celebrated a milestone in February. It was their 20th anniversary of developing business partnerships.
"What we do really is build bridges between the Aboriginal community and the corporate sector. We develop tools and resources that can be used to engage that market place and broker relationships, whether it's between…
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The Aboriginal Police Studies certificate program offered by Grant MacEwan College can be qualified as a great success, except for the fact that nobody knows too much about it.
Four of the 10 students enrolled in the first group that took the nine-month program were accepted by the RCMP to take its training program in Regina. Two went to Aboriginal police force training…
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Editor's note: March 7th begins International Women's Week and a celebration of the contributions that women have made around the world. Windspeaker uses the Canadian Classroom page this month for a quiz that will remind readers of the remarkable Aboriginal women who have shaped our societies with their achievements over the years. Their stories provide encouragement to all-men…
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We acknowledge through the use of tobacco, incense-cedar, sage-many of these things we use to appease the spirits. It isn't the object itself. It's what they bring.
Spirits are very much attracted to smell, very much attracted to smell. Each has a different form of spirit ... We use, especially when we talk about our warriors, we use tobacco. That's the most sacred of…
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Dear Buffalo Spirit:
I have heard that there are buffalo farms. The buffalo are getting sick and dying. This is happening to them, I am told, because it is not in the spirit of the buffalo to be domesticated like the white man's cattle and locked up in a pen, herded up to be slaughtered and then butchered and sent to market where the only difference between it and a…
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Artist - Kinnie Starr
Album - Sun Again
Song - Discovered
Label - Violet Inch Records
Producer - Kinnie Starr and John Raham
Thoroughly enjoyable, start to surprise finish
Eclectic is a word that's often used to describe an artist's musical style, but in the case of Kinnie Starr, the word is a perfect fit. The Vancouver-based singer/…
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Yvette Nolan
-Artistic Director, Native Earth Performing Arts
Recommends:
The Last Crossing
By Guy Vanderhaeghe
McClelland & Stewart-2003
Full of cowboys and the occasional Indian, Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing is part historical novel, part mystery. The Last Crossing chronicles the journey of Charles and
Addington…
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Louis Riel
-A Comic-Strip Biography
By Chester Brown
Drawn and Quarterly Publications
272 pages (hc)
$34.95
Louis Riel-A Comic-Strip Biography is an interesting experiment, taking a unique approach to the telling of the story of Louis Riel and his struggle to have the rights of the Metis people in Western Canada recognized by the federal…
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MUSIC BIZ 101
Just recently I asked an audio technician to download selected songs to promote Aboriginal music to festival presenters who are currently booking for the summer live performance season. Rather than send out several different CDs with the artist's accompanying material for consideration to the festival organizers, my preference is to call the artists and…
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THE URBANE INDIAN
The wagons are circled and the Natives are restless for sure. E-mails and condemnations are flying across North America quicker than broken treaty promises. For the second time in as many months, a major American television musical spectacle, this time the Grammys instead of the Super Bowl halftime show, has provoked an outcry. Only this time, Janet…
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NASIVVIK
Nowadays, even small villages in the Arctic are connected to the endless cyber-destinations of the Information Superhighway. Previously unthinkable, this provides reliable communications by Internet and e-mail to every corner of the world. Unfortunately, these conveniences also provide opportunities for fraud artists to ply their trade, and Arctic isolation no…
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PRO BONO
Dear Tuma:
I heard that the Supreme Court of Canada said that it is OK to spank kids. Is this true? My kid told me that I couldn't hit him and that if I did, he would call the Children's Aid. How hard can I spank my child? What about the neighborhood kids? They're the ones who are the worst and need a good old-fashioned spanking to teach them a thing or…
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MEDIUM RARE
Despite hours of coverage by major news networks and thousands of words in newspapers and magazines, chances are you're confused by that conflict at Kanehsatake Mohawk Territory near Montreal in January.
It began as a story about a crime-fighting chief. It evolved into a tale about mob rule. And it wound up as an account of a government taking the bull…
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"I never imagined making this film a year ago that it would end up anywhere," said Danis Goulet, director of Spin, a short film that was featured during this year's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The film festival, an annual showcase for independent films and filmmakers from around the world, took place Jan.15 to 25.
Goulet's film was one of 16 screened as…