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Native students can cash in on new post-secondary education grants being offered by Esso Resources Limited.
Esso announced recently that grants up to $4,500 per year will be available in the next school year to students in either college or university through Esso's Native Education Awards Program.
The initiative will assist Native students trying to get post-…
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Spiritual support
A cultural awakening is surging within Alberta's prison walls as Natives practice spiritual ceremonies within.
But once prisoners are released there is no support program to help them continue building their spiritual awareness which many claim helps them stay on the straight path.
This concern prompted the Native Brotherhood Society in…
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Exotic game ranch caters to Oriental market
Barns, corrals and fences are almost completed here in preparation for the raising of woodland elk and prairie bison.
The exotic game ranch, located 40 km southeast of High Prairie, will cater to a large Oriental market for velvet antlers in Canada and Pacific rim countries. A similar wildlife ranch is in operation at…
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A small band of workers on the Bushe River reserve got quite a surprise last summer when they unearthed a huge bone which once belonged to a now-extinct type of buffalo.
Dene Tha band manager Fred Didzena says the workers uncovered the bones with a backhoe used to build a road through the small reserve east of High Level.
Archeologists from Alberta Culture and…
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A special and sacred ceremony took place on the banks of the Oldman River on the Peigan reserve Feb. 6.
Peigan Elder and spiritual leader, Joe Crowshoe, was joined by Christian and Muslim ministers in a special blessing of the river which is threatened by a dam under construction just outside the reserve.
Crowshoe began the blessing inside a tipi where he performed…
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The Fort Chipewyan band will hold its third liquor plebiscite since 1981 to decide whether to end a ban on liquor sales.
The plebiscite takes place March 16 and is the result of the recently opened Fort Chipewyan Lodge's application to the Alberta Liquor Control Board to sell alcohol.
In 1984 about 51 per cent of the votes were in favour of liquor sales and…
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The federal government will go to court to settle the Lubicon Lake band's land claim unless the provincial government accepts a new proposal that was outlined Feb. 4.
The federal government has asked Alberta to set aside lands for the band's reserve under a new formula and if the province does not agree, court action will result.
The new formula will determine the…
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Treaty and Metis residents here have opened a sawmill operation in an effort to create employment in the logging industry.
Janvier Chief Walter Javier says it's the first time the Metis and Treaty community have combined resources on any project. "We've had a lot of problems in the past (getting along) . . . but, now we're meeting regularly and things are working."
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A Japanese forest products giant, Daishowa, will not harvest trees on lands earmarked by the province and the federal government for the Lubicon band, said Forestry Minister LeRoy Fjordbotten in an Edmonton Journal report.
The minister could not be reached for comment but executive assistant Peter Kinnear echoed Fjordbotten's comments saying, "The government has gone ahead…
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For the past eight years, the Native Law Centre of Canada has been helping to open doors for Aboriginal youth in Canada by sending them to other countries.
Each year, the centre selects a handful of Aboriginal youth, age 18 to 30, to take part in its Youth International Internship program, funded through the federal government's Youth Employment Strategy (YES) and the…
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Move over Superman. Step aside Spiderman and Batman. There's a new trio of heroes ready to take the comic book world by storm, and their names are Jesse, Tyra and Chad.
The three are the unlikely heroes of Sacred Circles, a comic book launched by a new comic book company, Birch Bark Comics.
Both the company and the comic book are the brainchild of Brandon Mitchell…
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Smokers in Canada's North will soon be out in the cold, thanks to some new laws and regulations limiting where they can light up.
The toughest stand against smoking is being taken in Nunavut, where the territorial legislature passed a new Tobacco Control Act in early November.
Under the act, it will be illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the age or 19…
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A national conference focusing on injury prevention in First Nation and Inuit communities is being planned for Winnipeg from June 9 to 12.
Towards Community Action on Aboriginal Injuries is the theme of the conference, which will bring together health workers from across Canada.
The conference is co-ordinated by the National Indian and Inuit Community Health…
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The chiefs of the Assembly of First Nations heard that the number of houses required in First Nation communities as quoted by the national chief in his Getting Results Strategy paint too rosy a picture and the situation is bleaker than Phil Fontaine has stated.
Officials in the Assembly of First Nations Quebec region conducted a detailed study of what the state of affairs…
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Just days before he was called on to perform a cleansing ceremony for Prime Minister Paul Martin during his swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall Dec. 12, Elder Elmer Courchene slammed the federal government's treatment of residential school survivors.
"It hasn't been survivor-driven," he said of the negotiations to provide compensation. "I've seen many of our Elders that…