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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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"The Roots of Chile" is an exhibition of photos and artifacts that portray the culture of Chile's Native peoples. The display, produced by Carlos Toro and Bessie Parry, is scheduled to open at the Musee Heritage Museum in St. Albert at 7:30 p.m. on January 8. The public is invited to stop by and enjoy traditional Chilean entertainment and refresh-ments.
The culture of the…
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The long-awaited release of Alberta's Native education policy continues to sit in the wings while educators, Natives and those concerned with the educational welfare of Native students can only second-guess what lies in store.
When contacted by Windspeaker, Darrell Osbaldeston, executive assistant to education Minister Nancy Betkowski, assured us that the policy will be…
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Have you ever seen one of those science fiction movies where Earth is invaded
by the kind of aliens that get into the minds and bodies of people but nobody suspects because the aliens look like normal people but then they start taking over and pretty soon everybody else is acting kind of weird and then the only normal people left in the whole world are you and your…
Parliamentary Report
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OTTAWA - Canada's external affairs department treads too softly in its defence of the fur industry, says Parliament's Aboriginal affairs standing committee.
Liberal Committee member Keith Penner, his party's Indian affairs critic, says that external is too "timid" in its support of a traditional industry that brings millions of dollars to the…
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OTTAWA - The Prairie Treaty Nations Alliance (PTNA) says it will not accept the outcome of next spring's First Ministers' Conference unless it is included at the FMC table and at the ministerial and officials' meetings leading up to the conference.
Spokesmen for the PTNA say that whenever they bring the issue of their participation in the process up with the federal…
Alberta Indian Arts and Crafts
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CALGARY - The withdrawal earlier this month by Alberta Indian Arts and Crafts Society (AIACS) from the Calgary Winter Olympic Games has drawn angry speculation of an "unholy alliance" between OOC '88 and various provincial and federal government departments.
"I feel AIACS was deliberately pushed out," says a bitter and angry Lois…
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A group of 21 Indian bands from western Canada have formed their own oil company, as of November 1986.
The 21 bands are shareholder in the Canadian Native Oil Corporation (CNOC ) and have each purchased $1,000 in shares. The bands come from various areas in Alberta, Saskatchewan British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.
At the November meeting, goals and…
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Once again it is that time of year when different Native groups and organizations begin hosting their annual Christmas get-togethers. Such was the case last Thursday when approximately 75 people stopped in at the Heritage Lounge of Athabasca Hall as guests of Native Student Services at the University of Alberta.
For university students, it was the end of term and time…
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The grand master of contemporary Indian art, Norval Morrisseau, is making his presence felt once again in the city of Edmonton. The 2nd Annual Norval Morrisseau Art Exhibition was officially opened at Manulife Place on December 9 and offered a slightly different flavor than his exhibit one year ago.
There is a noticeable shift in much of Morrisseau's more recent works in…
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Ahneen, howdy and ho, ho, ho. This is the time of year when somebody with blue Paul Newman eyes, a red, beard face like Burl Ives and a body like Refrigerator Perry goes sneaking around unsupervised in our places. That mostly invisible entity leaves toys for the kids and the bills for you know who.
To tell you the truth, that's how my version of the Christmas spirit left…
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Windspeaker cartoonist Kim McLain has finally done it!
No, he hasn't slipped over the edge while sketching a cartoon of Sam Sinclair still holding onto the steering wheel after all those years while the rest of the MAA car was falling apart, and he hasn't applied electric wires to his head (yet) while drawing a cartoon of the little ole lady from Lubicon screaming "Where'…
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Muriel Stanley Venne is still an active member of the National Economic Development Program (NEDP) Advisory Board, and that fact was "officially announced at Federation of Metis Settlements All Council meeting October 27 in Edmonton.
This announcement comes after Venne was asked to consider resigning her position on the board in March of this year, because of her…
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Back in their hey-days of the late 1950s and early 1960 when the first batch of Native friendship centres came into existence, a variety of programs, services and organizations took root. The centres, became, if you will, the catalyst for such movements and in 1987, the Canadian Native Friendship Centre (CNFC) in Edmonton celebrates its silver (25th) anniversary.
A…
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Dear Santa:
How are you? I hope you're able to bring everything on my Christmas list because I have been a good little boy. I mean, golly, I haven't criticized politicians all year - except when they deserved it. Anyway, Santa, here's my list:
My first request isn't for me, it's for Brian Mulroney. I know he's a millionaire and now he's the most powerful man in the…
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A panel of Native service leaders were united in the feeling that the major source in Native mental health problems is the intrusive "non-Native system."
Speaking to an audience of health professionals, the panel addressed a symposium on Community Participation in Mental Health on Thursday, December 4, at the University of Alberta.
Mental illness refers to those…