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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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Aboriginal politicians, Elders and people with experience in the building trades all say that inadequate housing is at the root of many, perhaps even most, of the social, economic and health problems that plague First Nation communities.
But politics of all kinds have complicated the housing issue, even though most people would agree that it's too important a matter with…
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Mr. Justice Sidney Linden will preside over an inquiry into the police shooting death of Dudley George at Ipperwash Provincial Park in 1995.
Linden is a former chief judge of the Ontario Court of Justice (Provincial Division). He was Ontario's first information and privacy commissioner. He was also the police complaints commissioner in Toronto. He has written about race…
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Speaking in Machu Picchu, Peru on Nov. 12, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke out about the contribution made by Indigenous peoples. The remarks were seen as a powerful challenge to Western attitudes towards formerly colonized peoples.
"Here, amidst the peaks of the Andes in Peru, the enormous contributions of Indigenous peoples to human civilization are…
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Who's in and who's out as Paul Martin takes over
Charlie Fox as Indian Affairs minister?
A Canadian Press story on Nov. 15 made just that suggestion, quoting unnamed sources in the Martin camp.
Fox, the Ontario Assembly of First Nations' vice-chief, issued a statement to all the Ontario chiefs on Nov. 17 in response to that story. He confirmed that he has…
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Dear Editor:
My concern is about traditional healing, i.e., the sweatlodge ceremony. I was at last year's International Residential School Conference and there was no sweatlodge ceremony on the agenda.
Would some of my fellow First Nations' people support my idea of a sweatlodge ceremony to be added to the agenda for the International Residential School Conference…
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Dear Editor:
This is an open letter to all the Native peoples of Turtle Island. I am writing this letter in the hopes that we can free ourselves from oppression.
I constantly hear that we should take control of our own lives and the lives of our children, so that we can all have a better life. This noble talk being said. It is sadly apparent that most of us still…
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Editorial
You know what's unreasonable?
Cultural genocide is unreasonable. Pretending to be a modern, post-colonial nation while still practising colonialism is unreasonable.
Let us clear up a couple of things about Canada's history.
In the beginning...of Canada... the people of Europe moved into somebody else's homeland and took everything they could…
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From the War of 1812 to today's peacekeeping duties around the world, thousands of Aboriginal people have dedicated themselves to serving in the Canadian military.
One estimate puts the number of Aboriginal people who served in the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War at more than 12,000. The most well-known and remembered among them was Sergeant Thomas George…
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After spending 12 days in Canada in September, the United Nations' special rapporteur on racism, racial discrimination, zenophobia and related intolerance wants to send a message to Canada's federal and provincial governments.
Racism is alive and flourishing in this country, which boasts internationally of its progressive attitudes towards multiculturalism.
In the…
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Vice-chief Rick Simon made no secret of his region's support for the financial institutions legislation (Bill C-19) and the Getting Results Agenda put forward by National Chief Phil Fontaine at the Assembly of First Nations special chiefs' gathering in Squamish Nation, B.C. in October.
But the AFN's Nova Scotia/Newfoundland vice-chief went further than that when he spoke…
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Established in 1996, the White Buffalo Youth Inhalant Treatment Centre in northern Saskatchewan is a nationally recognized residential facility that treats youth who have addictions to solvents.
Located on Sturgeon Lake First Nation, the centre is open to youth 12 to 17 from across Canada who come to the centre to take part in a six-month residential program.
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There's a new set of videotapes on the market created to get people off their couches and involved in a more active, healthier lifestyle as a way to control or prevent diabetes.
But what makes these tapes different from all other exercise videos already out there is that they were made by Native people for Native people and are being given away, free of charge.
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Salish Elders
By Wim Tewinkel
Caitlin Press Inc.
76 pages (sc)
$35.95
Salish Elders, a new book by photographer and author Wim Tewinkle, captures snippets of memories from 21 Elders of the Interior Salish Nation in British Columbia.
The book is dominated by large color photos of the Elders, who come from the Lil'wat Nation, the N'Quatqua First Nation…
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Daniel N. Paul
- Author/Journalist
Recommends:
Stolen Continents by Ronald Wright
Penguin Books-1992
Stolen Continents describes in intimate detail some of the most horrific incidences of genocide committed by Europeans in the Americas against Native Americans during the various stages of their invasion of the two continents, and their…
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Artist-Kimberley Dawn
Album-I'm Going Home
Song-My Spirit Flies
Label-Sunshine Records
Producer-Craig Fotheringham
Kimberley Dawn shines
Winnipeg's Kimberley Dawn has been singing all her life, and was only eight when she took to the stage, performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival when a children's entertainer asked her to join him on…