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Canadian Natives, in London recently to promote the fur trapping industry in a city that leads the European anti-fur lobby, received little play from the British media.
"We were in London to heighten awareness about the fur industry here . . . London is a big place and there's so much going on. It's very hard to capture people's attention," said Lou Demerais, one of a…
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Collins back on ski team
Former Olympic ski jumping star Steve Collins has returned to the slopes and is back on the Canadian National Ski Jumping Team.
The Fort Williams band member left the team last season for personal reasons but has continued to train on his own with private funding.
Collins, 24, impressed national coach Andreas Sachlie at the World Cup…
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Everett Soop straightens his plaid shirt, tugs at this pants, leans forward in his wheel chair and takes the microphone.
He hardly needs an introduction. The renowned Blood cartoonist/writer is in a league of his own. Many have tried to copy his success but have not reached the heights he has.
For years readers of Kainai News turned to his sardonic cartoons and…
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EDITORIAL
By the time you read this, Christmas Day will have come and gone. For most of us, our strongest memories are of the children in our lives. Christmas is made for them . . . they are the ones who believe in glitter and magic, and that anything they imagine is possible.
This youth issue is our salute to the young people who believe they are capable of…
Olympic torch run protested
Petro-Canada got a chance to share the blame for ill treatment of Lubicon Indians as its Olympic Flame advertising bandwagon hit this city Dec. 16.
Waiting for the company's publicity show were a group of protestors demanding justice for the Lubicon band in their fight with the federal and provincial governments, Petro-Canada and other oil companies…
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A Peigan band councillor says he feels "pretty good" about the recent Calgary court decision which declared the province's construction permits for Oldman River dam invalid.
The ruling stated that the province failed to get written permission for the dam from the district of Pincher Creek where the dam site is situated, or from the federal and provincial ministers of…
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Blyan has questions for Hardy at face to face meeting in Edmonton
About 50 members of the Metis Settlement Members Coalition headed by chairman Joe Blyan addressed the annual meeting of the Federation of Metis Settlements in Edmonton Dec. 11.
In a speech to the assembled councils of the eight Metis settlements, Blyan said he and his fellow settlement members were…
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The Blood Indian band located at Standoff in southern Alberta has endorsed the Lubicon Lake band's boycott of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games.
The band is the second southern band to back the Lubicons, offering support to the small Cree band just two weeks after the Peigan band joined the boycott.
Council member Andy Black Water said the Blood band decided to join the…
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Jurisdiction for Aboriginal languages must be given to the Secretary of State, not the Department of Indian Affairs, according to a position paper to be submitted to the Assembly of First Nations language conference scheduled for next month.
The associate director of Dr. Anne Anderson's Native Heritage and Cree Culture Centre, Buff Parry and Aaron Minoose will be…
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An effort, spearheaded by Kapown Centre ? an addictions treatment centre operated by the Grouard Indian band, is being extended for the establishment and development of a Woodland Cree Interpretive Centre and anthropological field station at Grouard.
Kapown Centre's Verna Neville says that Grouard band chief Frank Halcrow "has donated suitable land for such a centre and…
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Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak welcomed support from both Native and non-Native students at the University of Alberta during an information meeting on campus Dec. 12.
"It's always encouraging to see people who are prepared to try and assist and support us any way possible. That's been our only source of power in trying to deal with the opposition which is tremendous…
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A former trapper, logger and firefighter has been elected chief of the 369 member Chipewyan band at For Chipewyan.
Pat Marcel, 49 and a father of five, was elected at the Dec. 9 election which also saw former chief Archie Cyprien and band member Patricia Lepine elected to council. The third councillor will be elected in a January by-election due to a tie between Charlie…
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Hopi legends and their ancient prophecies have recently been gaining attention, particularly as many of the prophecies appear to be coming true.
Interest in the prophecies arose in North America recently with the well publicized "harmonic conversation" ceremonies which took place all across the continent. This ceremony has its roots in the ancient Aztec calendar…
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Indians have long been associated with a particular type of music, either country and western, traditional powwow music. But there is an Indian who is trying to change that stereotype.
John Kim Bell is a Mohawk Indian from the Caughnawaga reserve, east of Montreal. He is also an internationally known and respected symphony conductor, the president and founder of the…
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Being artistically talented can have its rewards, especially once your art work is accepted, admired and purchased. For many artists, however, it is that final quality, being purchased, that prevents them from actively pursuing an art career. And such is the case for Adrian Yellow Old Woman, a Blackfoot now living in Calgary.
Yellow Old Woman's work is much admired by…