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Some 35 runners will participate in the 1996 Sacred Run, being billed as "The Longest Run III". Led by Native Americans, this multicultural, international cross-country run will include runners from Australia, Canada, France, Germany and Japan, as well as the host United States. The 4,200 km run will take 105 days and is scheduled to finish at the site of the 1996 summer Olympic…
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In this year's Maple Leaf Junior Curling Championships in Edmonton, Jamie and Kerry Koe entered the history books. The Northwest Territories junior champs became the first twin brother and sister skips, respectively, at the same national championship.
However, it's not the first time at the nationals for either of the two Gwich'in athletes from Yellowknife. The 1996…
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In this year's Maple Leaf Junior Curling Championships in Edmonton, Jamie and Kerry Koe entered the history books. The Northwest Territories junior champs became the first twin brother and sister skips, respectively, at the same national championship.
However, it's not the first time at the nationals for either of the two Gwich'in athletes from Yellowknife. The 1996…
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Jim Thorpe's family would have the circle closed where he was born and grew up: in the blackjack woods, between the Moccasin Highway and Oklahoma's North Canadian River.
Meanwhile, on Pennsylvania Route 903, just outside an old coal-mining town in the Lehigh Valley, a 20-ton, polished, mini van-sized chunk of brown granite graces a small, hillside park. Inscribed on the…
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There were almost 1,000 people crowded into the Panee Memorial Agriplex in Hobbema by 10:00 a.m. last Monday morning in the hopes of landing a job with EuroDisney. Agents for The Walt Disney Company's Paris, France, theme park were in town offering auditions to prospective Indian riders, Buffalo Bills, Annie Oakleys and Sitting Bulls. More than 400 of those in attendance rode…
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There were almost 1,000 people crowded into the Panee Memorial Agriplex in Hobbema by 10:00 a.m. last Monday morning in the hopes of landing a job with EuroDisney. Agents for The Walt Disney Company's Paris, France, theme park were in town offering auditions to prospective Indian riders, Buffalo Bills, Annie Oakleys and Sitting Bulls. More than 400 of those in attendance rode…
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A study to assess the migration and spawning patterns of the bull trout, as well as sizes and population of the fish in the upper and lower Duncan River system and Kootenay Lake, is half complete.
The Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, along with the BC Environment and B.C. Hydro, began their joint study in the summer of 1995. One of the study's…
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A study to assess the migration and spawning patterns of the bull trout, as well as sizes and population of the fish in the upper and lower Duncan River system and Kootenay Lake, is half complete.
The Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, along with the BC Environment and B.C. Hydro, began their joint study in the summer of 1995. One of the study's…
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The House of Commons standing committee on environment and sustainable development completed its mandated five-year review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) in June, 1995. In December, 1995, Environment Canada responded with a proposal for a revised CEPA, and is inviting public comment on the document.
The government points to five items in the 82-page…
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The House of Commons standing committee on environment and sustainable development completed its mandated five-year review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) in June, 1995. In December, 1995, Environment Canada responded with a proposal for a revised CEPA, and is inviting public comment on the document.
The government points to five items in the 82-page…
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Review
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Up Where We Belong;
EMI 1996.
The latest from the first lady of First Nations music, Buffy Sainte-Marie, is much more than a best-of album (which would be her sixth of the kind) and marks more than 30 years of recording.
The 15-track project titled Up Where We Belong contains carefully selected material from albums…
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Review
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Up Where We Belong;
EMI 1996.
The latest from the first lady of First Nations music, Buffy Sainte-Marie, is much more than a best-of album (which would be her sixth of the kind) and marks more than 30 years of recording.
The 15-track project titled Up Where We Belong contains carefully selected material from albums…
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Despite cutbacks to the tune of $120,000 last year, and another $20,000 this year, Canada's only Aboriginal film and art festival is on stream and "actually ahead of schedule", reported its executive director, Sharon Shirt.
Budgets are definitely a determining factor in this year's Dreamspeaker event. "We learned to do some serious negotiating," Shirt said.
She's…
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Despite cutbacks to the tune of $120,000 last year, and another $20,000 this year, Canada's only Aboriginal film and art festival is on stream and "actually ahead of schedule", reported its executive director, Sharon Shirt.
Budgets are definitely a determining factor in this year's Dreamspeaker event. "We learned to do some serious negotiating," Shirt said.
She's…
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It wasn't too long ago when Lee Maracle, the well known Native writer turned actress, and I were having a lively conversation at a downtown watering hole. The subject at hand: the exciting growth and expansion of Native literature. Something we both have a familiarity with.
In recent years, there have been many inroads and directions explored by Native writers. We have…