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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 wife of a man found dead underneath the city's Whoop-Up Bridge in 1984 denied having anything to do with his death.
When Lenore Sinclair was asked by a Blood Band lawyer if she had anything to do with Ivan Garry Chief Moon's death emphatically said no.
Chief Moon's body was found under the bridge Dec. 9, 1984. Police believe the 25 year old man fell accidently…
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A federal court decision giving the go-ahead to the controversial Oldman Dam isn't the end of the road for the Peigan Band, says a band lawyer.
"They're on a different track all together" than the Friends of the Oldman River Society which tried to stop the project, said Vancouver lawyer Louis Mandell, who will represent the
band at a hearing Tuesday in Calgary.…
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High-alcohol content cooking wines are being pulled from Alberta grocery store shelves because it has become the drink of choice for Edmonton's skid-row Natives.
Inexpensive cooking wines, with an alcohol content of 38 per cent, will be removed from corner grocery counters Sept. 1.
The alcohol content will be reduced to 20 per cent.
The decision by the…
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A Kehewin couple is blaming Alberta Social Services for the death of their youngest son.
"They took him from us when he was healthy and brought him back in a box," said his mother Lila McCarthy.
"They just ripped our hearts out," said the devastated mother at a press conference last week in west Edmonton.
Dallas Soloway of Ardmore was killed Aug. 5 after a…
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Metis politicians are feeding their followers false hope about the future of Native people, charges recently retired Metis association representative George Amato.
During the 61st annual general assembly of the Metis Association of Alberta in St. Paul on Aug. 12, Amato took centre stage and denounced the association's current policy makers
for ignoring the rights…
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It is customary for Native people to hold a memorial in honor of a deceased loved one about one year after the death.
Ruth McNab's memorial for her beloved husband Bill, who passed away May 24, 1988, is by way of publication.
Being away from the reserve that had been their home, McNab believes that by publicizing a memorial of her late husband, she will reach more…
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The cradleboard for babies has become virtually obsolete.
But an Edmonton Native couple has started their own small business, manufacturing the boards, which serve as a crib, playpen, carriage and car seat for infants.
Lise and Adelard Jacko, formerly of the Chipewyan Cold Lake band, said the high cost of baby furniture gave them the idea to build a cradle board…
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Native artists are beginning to depict more of the power of the spiritual work in their art.
And it's that kind of new development which artist Jane Ash Poitras believes is a trend away from the forceful, negative messages which have appeared in many previous works,
including her own work.
"I can see what we've already done. We've thrown the negative side…
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Art has always been an obsession with Edmonton artist Kim McLain.
The 1987 winner of the Alberta Indian Arts and Crafts Society's ASUM MENA Native Artists Festival says he has always been fascinated with art since he was a teenager.
"I became obsessed with art when I was 16. I just found it so fascinating....looking at abstract paintings and seeing them in a new…
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Canada's first national Native art gallery has opened and will send a signal to gallery owners across the country that art made by Native artists should be given more serious
consideration.
That's the view of Gerald McMaster, curator of the Museum of Civilization which opened its doors to the public in June 26.
The museum, located in Hull, Quebec, houses the…
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Three prominent Alberta Native artists are receiving plaudits for the artistic concepts which they have perfected in their work.
Artistic ideas being used by artists Alex Janvier, Jane Ash Poitras and Joane Cardianal-Schubert are paralleling current artistic issues in international art circles, says the curator of
Canada's Museum of Civilization.
Gerald…
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Raging rivers caused the evacuation of more than 100 Driftpile band members from their homes Saturday during a weekend of heavy rainfalls.
The incident was reminiscent of last year's devastation which left one band member dead, said Driftpile Chief Clifford Freeman.
The river has receded and the people have now returned to their homes.
"But now we have to…
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Jim White says he was one of the lucky ones.
He doesn't feel lucky because he found his way off the dead end streets of Edmonton skid row district, or because he was able to realize he was killing himself with alcohol before it
was too late, He doesn't feel lucky because he landed a good job with the city.
White says he's lucky because he found a way to…
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Five or six Native deaths in The Pas area were improperly handled by RCMP and local police, The Pas Indian Chief Oscar Lathlin told a Manitoba inquiry.
Lathlin repeated earlier statements that the murder of Helen Betty Osborne, unsolved for more than 15 years, would have been handled differently if she had been non-Native.
RCMP lawyer Hymie Weinstein accused the…
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Canadian Natives will run from Manitoba to Illinois to deliver a petition to Reverend Jesse Jackson.
The Run for Human Rights is scheduled to begin in late August and participants will arrive at Jackson's headquarters in Chicago on Sept. 17.
Run coordinator Terrance Nelson said the run is planned to promote the fact that the United States and Canadian governments…