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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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A music composer derives income from five sources, one being performance royalties. The performing rights of the copyright owner are a significant part of their right to reproduce or copy their works and to control such recordings, including how such recordings will be transmitted or used.
Under the Copyright Act in Canada, copyright owners license their musical works…
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The plight of two Ecuadoran healers awaiting trial on Manitoulin Island, has struck a sympathetic chord with some professors and students at Laurentian University in Sudbury. Juan and Edgar Uyunkar, father and son medicine men from the Upper Amazon, were recently invited to share their cultural traditions with students in the bachelor of social work program.
About 80…
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Aboriginal health researchers will have an easier time accessing both funding and training, thanks to the creation of four new centres across the country dedicated to supporting increased Aboriginal involvement in health research.
The four new ACADRE (Aboriginal Capacity and Developmental Research Environments) centres are being funded through the Institute of Aboriginal…
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An unseasonably late snowstorm raged outside, but the ice inside Saskatoon's Hub City Curling Club on the evening of April 1 was smooth sparkling. After four days of intense competition, the 2002 National Aboriginal Curling Championship had reached its final draw, and no one was too concerned with the weather as the men's and women's finalists prepared to do battle.
On…
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Thanks in part to the Squire brothers, the Toronto Rock are once again the National Lacrosse League champions.
Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation members Kim (Kid Rock) and Rodd (Moose) Squire, who live on the reserve in Ohsweken, Ont., are members of the pro squad that won this year's NLL title. The Squires and their teammates edged the host Albany Attack 13-12…
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His team came up a step or two shy of a national title this year, but as far as Kelvin Sampson's peers were concerned, he was tops.
Sampson, a full-blooded Lumbee Indian, is the head coach for the University of Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball squad. After guiding the Sooners to a 31-5 record this season, he was selected as the top coach in the NCAA Division 1 ranks. He…
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Sometimes it only takes 30 seconds for your life to change.
When Travis Youngchief, 31, attended a powwow almost three years ago in Frog Lake, Alta., he had no idea his life would go in a new direction.
As he watched young boy, Sundance Wapass, who was about seven years old at the time, celebrate his Aboriginal culture by participating in the event, Youngchief felt…
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Nuvisavik -the place where we weave
Edited by Maria Von Finckenstein
Canadian Museum of Civilization/
McGill-Queen's University Press
202 pages (sc) $45.00
For more than three decades, artists and weavers in Pangnirtung on Baffin Island have been working together to create colorful tapestries that capture images of traditional Inuit life,…
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Canada Book Day was celebrated on April 23, and Windspeaker would like to join in the celebration of the printed word and present some books that have arrived, some recently, some not so recently, through our door for review.
We've had the opportunity to do some larger work on a few of them, as you've noticed in our coverage this month, but these are a few we haven't…
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Lake of the Prairies:
A Story of Belonging
By Warren Cariou
Doubleday Canada
318 pages, (hc)
$32.95
Lake of the Prairies is, first, a story of a man and the forces that have made him what he is today. It is also a nuanced portrait of Meadow Lake, Sask., the author's hometown and the place where he grew into adulthood.
Warren…
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Who is Hartley GoodWeather?
According to Tom King, author of six award-winning books of fiction, and creator/host of CBC Radio's Dead Dog Cafe, GoodWeather just penned the new mystery novel, DreadfulWater Shows Up.
"A few years ago he [GoodWeather] came to me and said he'd like to write anything but a literary piece, and he wanted to make a lot of money from it,"…
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Joanne Swanson first picked up a paintbrush at the age of 41, but she has quickly joined the ranks of accomplished artists who started their careers much younger.
Today her contemporary and traditional paintings depicting village scenes and portraits are included in both private collections and Native-owned corporations and businesses across the north.
Swanson…
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She has been acutely aware of her culture since a very young age. She has cherished this knowledge and passed it on to other youth. Her name is Melissa Bromley.
The 21-year-old from Sudbury, Ont. is one of five 2002 Metis youth role model winners announced at the National Metis Youth Conference in Vancouver April 26.
Bromley, the winner in the Metis culture and…
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A panel created by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has concluded that the fall lobster fishery conducted by the Burnt Church First Nation is a threat to lobster stocks. The report recommends that all parties in the region share in the spring fishery and that the federal government should take drastic action to bring peace and stability to the region.
"Science…
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Deborah Grey reacted strongly when she heard the Assembly of First Nations national chief allege that his organization's budget was cut mainly because it opposed the First Nations governance act initiative. The Edmonton North MP urged the Liberal members of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, Northern Development and Natural Resources to question their government and…