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When I first read the job description for the position of Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts, Toronto's only professional Native theatre company, I don't remember coming across any paragraph or subsection anywhere on the page requiring me to become the "Oracle of Aboriginal Trivia."
On any given day, questions of an unusual nature are posed to me and the…
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At the age of 15, Ojibway Elder Alex Skead received a blessing from an elderly Aboriginal woman that was to mark the course of his life.
"I hope that one day you will have white hair like mine," she told him, " and that you will spend your life helping others."
The old woman blessed him because he offered to haul a sleigh carrying her frail husband and a canoe which…
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At the age of 15, Ojibway Elder Alex Skead received a blessing from an elderly Aboriginal woman that was to mark the course of his life.
"I hope that one day you will have white hair like mine," she told him, " and that you will spend your life helping others."
The old woman blessed him because he offered to haul a sleigh carrying her frail husband and a canoe which…
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Guest Column
Since the Oklahoma City bombing the general public has become justifiably concerned about the proliferation of irregular bands of people (mostly males) organized in paramilitary units and now referring to themselves as "militias". The essential nature of these groups of well-armed mostly or wholly white males is that they are "irregular" (that is, without any…
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Guest Column
Since the Oklahoma City bombing the general public has become justifiably concerned about the proliferation of irregular bands of people (mostly males) organized in paramilitary units and now referring to themselves as "militias". The essential nature of these groups of well-armed mostly or wholly white males is that they are "irregular" (that is, without any…
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In both British Columbia and Ontario, there has been far too much third-arty interference during this time of tension. Premier Mike Harcourt, in particular, used the standoff situation to score political points. There have been knee-jerk reactions from many people across the country -- many of the "good-old-boy" ilk ? who said the police should have just gone and shot them…
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In both British Columbia and Ontario, there has been far too much third-arty interference during this time of tension. Premier Mike Harcourt, in particular, used the standoff situation to score political points. There have been knee-jerk reactions from many people across the country -- many of the "good-old-boy" ilk ? who said the police should have just gone and shot them…
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What person in their right mind in the North would believe that anyone would bring four bands and 500 people to party in their town?
Well, someone believed in Tuk. Molson U.S.A. spent $10 million promoting and organizing the Polar Beach Party in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. Performing were Metallica, Hole, Veruca Salt and Moist, and in the audience 500 contest winners and guests,…
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What person in their right mind in the North would believe that anyone would bring four bands and 500 people to party in their town?
Well, someone believed in Tuk. Molson U.S.A. spent $10 million promoting and organizing the Polar Beach Party in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. Performing were Metallica, Hole, Veruca Salt and Moist, and in the audience 500 contest winners and guests,…
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Former athlete worked for Native youth sport
R John Hayes , Windspeaker Staff Writer
John Thomas Fletcher, who worked for two decades to develop the Aboriginal sports movement and the North American Indigenous Games after a long and successful sports career himself, died of a heart attack at his home in Edmonton on Sept. 1. He was 58.
He died after suffering…
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Former athlete worked for Native youth sport
R John Hayes , Windspeaker Staff Writer
John Thomas Fletcher, who worked for two decades to develop the Aboriginal sports movement and the North American Indigenous Games after a long and successful sports career himself, died of a heart attack at his home in Edmonton on Sept. 1. He was 58.
He died after suffering…
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Long-time activist fathered Native media
R John Hayes , Windspeaker Staff Writer
Eugene Steinhauer, who was a pioneer Native broadcaster and an early catalyst for Native advocacy, died of a heart attack in hospital in St. Paul, Alta., on Sept. 12. He was 67.
He died after suffering from bad health for more than two years, which had recently curtailed his…
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Long-time activist fathered Native media
R John Hayes , Windspeaker Staff Writer
Eugene Steinhauer, who was a pioneer Native broadcaster and an early catalyst for Native advocacy, died of a heart attack in hospital in St. Paul, Alta., on Sept. 12. He was 67.
He died after suffering from bad health for more than two years, which had recently curtailed his…
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A protest at a provincial park in Ontario turned deadly when Chippewa Anthony (Dudley) George was shot in a skirmish with police.
He was one of a number of people occupying Ipperwash Provincial Park when Ontario Provincial Police opened fire on Native protesters Sept. 6. Two other people were injured in the attack.
Ovide Mercredi, grand chief of the Assembly of…
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A protest at a provincial park in Ontario turned deadly when Chippewa Anthony (Dudley) George was shot in a skirmish with police.
He was one of a number of people occupying Ipperwash Provincial Park when Ontario Provincial Police opened fire on Native protesters Sept. 6. Two other people were injured in the attack.
Ovide Mercredi, grand chief of the Assembly of…