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Although, it seems Doris Ronnenberg feels uncomfortable with the title role model, her life experiences and the contribution she has made to Native community declare her to be nothing less.
At 57 years of age, this Saulteau-Cree, born and raised in an isolated community in northern B.C., part of Treaty 8 has had her share of hardship, but she never dwells on it. Life would…
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Although, it seems Doris Ronnenberg feels uncomfortable with the title role model, her life experiences and the contribution she has made to Native community declare her to be nothing less.
At 57 years of age, this Saulteau-Cree, born and raised in an isolated community in northern B.C., part of Treaty 8 has had her share of hardship, but she never dwells on it. Life would…
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I must and will confess. I recently saw the new Disney film Pocahontas. I was curious to see how the Land of Mickey would treat this all-American Native legend. Briefly, the music was naturally marketable; the animation was, of course, fabulous; animals of the forest cute (though subconsciously you couldn't help knowing Pocahontas's people made a regular habit of eating Bambi and…
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I must and will confess. I recently saw the new Disney film Pocahontas. I was curious to see how the Land of Mickey would treat this all-American Native legend. Briefly, the music was naturally marketable; the animation was, of course, fabulous; animals of the forest cute (though subconsciously you couldn't help knowing Pocahontas's people made a regular habit of eating Bambi and…
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Entertainment
Review
The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba-Ethnography Into History
By Irving A. Hallowell,
128 pages, $25.95 (pb.)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Our voyage begins in 1930 with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell boarding a steamboat and venturing up Lake Winnipeg-destination Norway House.
Eighty kilometres to the…
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Entertainment
Review
The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba-Ethnography Into History
By Irving A. Hallowell,
128 pages, $25.95 (pb.)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Our voyage begins in 1930 with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell boarding a steamboat and venturing up Lake Winnipeg-destination Norway House.
Eighty kilometres to the…
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Review
This Dragon Won't Sleep
By Don Ross
Sony/Columbia, 1995
The guitar wizardry of Micmac artist Don Ross immediately grabs the listener from the opening note like a jaguar pouncing on its prey and holds on until the closing of the album fades into a deeply satisfied silence. This Dragon Won't Sleep is an amazing compact disc that contains Ross'…
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Review
This Dragon Won't Sleep
By Don Ross
Sony/Columbia, 1995
The guitar wizardry of Micmac artist Don Ross immediately grabs the listener from the opening note like a jaguar pouncing on its prey and holds on until the closing of the album fades into a deeply satisfied silence. This Dragon Won't Sleep is an amazing compact disc that contains Ross'…
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Review
At the Edge of All Things:
In search of Labrador
By Rick Hornung
203 pages, Stoddart
Rick Hornung was a Village Voice columnist who covered the Mohawk uprisings in 1989-90. He was originally commissioned to write a book on Davis Inlet after a Valentine Day's fire claimed the lives of six children there in 1992. He intended to research…
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Review
At the Edge of All Things:
In search of Labrador
By Rick Hornung
203 pages, Stoddart
Rick Hornung was a Village Voice columnist who covered the Mohawk uprisings in 1989-90. He was originally commissioned to write a book on Davis Inlet after a Valentine Day's fire claimed the lives of six children there in 1992. He intended to research…
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The Blood tribe and the federal government signed a Memorandum of Understanding July 7, giving the tribe greater participation in the future of their natural resources, through the First Nations Oil and Gas Management Initiative.
The document was also signed by the Canadian Indian Energy Corporation, an organization which represents the interest of almost 100 First…
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The Blood tribe and the federal government signed a Memorandum of Understanding July 7, giving the tribe greater participation in the future of their natural resources, through the First Nations Oil and Gas Management Initiative.
The document was also signed by the Canadian Indian Energy Corporation, an organization which represents the interest of almost 100 First…
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The Charles Camsell Hospital recently commemorated 50 years of service provided to Aboriginal people from the Foothills Region of Alberta and the Yukon and Northwest Territories who suffered with tuberculosis.
A full two-day program helped staff, friends, former patients and supporters celebrate the July 17-18 anniversary. Native spirituality, entertainment and healing…
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The Charles Camsell Hospital recently commemorated 50 years of service provided to Aboriginal people from the Foothills Region of Alberta and the Yukon and Northwest Territories who suffered with tuberculosis.
A full two-day program helped staff, friends, former patients and supporters celebrate the July 17-18 anniversary. Native spirituality, entertainment and healing…
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"I will show you my river, so that you will see what kind of river it is." ? Agnes Cranmer, of Namgis First Nation in the film Laxwesa Wa ? Strength of the River
Albert Bay, B.C.
For many of us, the impact of the West Coast fishing crisis is minimal. It amounts to a 60-second clip on the evening news or a few inches of copy in a newspaper.
We cluck our…