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1994 - Year In Review
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JANUARY
NAFTA sparks Mexico clashes
Indigenous peoples in and around San Christobal de las Casas in southern Mexico seized control of the resort city and several neighboring towns on Jan. 1, sparking heavy clashes with government troops and police. Most of the guerrillas are Tzotzil or Tzeltal Indians who banded together as the Zapatista…
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At first glance, Addie Arey doesn't seem like a prime candidate for the Yukon Sports Hall of Fame.
You won't see any animated encouragement, yells and screams from the sidelines when he's coaching. Arey's participated in eight Arctic Winter Games, as well as the Northern Games, the World Eskimo Olympics, the North American Indigenous Games and the Commonwealth Games.…
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Disabled Natives need recognition on a national level, through the Assembly of First Nations, said delegates at a recent health conference.
Representatives from several provincial associations made that clear at a national First Nations health conference Pathways to Holistic Health held in Calgary, Alberta, Nov. 27-30.
"If we had a national committee, we could…
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Traditional forms of Aboriginal medicine will be recognized in Ontario under a new health policy announced by the provincial government and Native leaders.
The policy endorses the use of traditional healers, midwives and Elders. In addition, the government has pledged that those practising traditional medicine will be recognized, respected and protected from government…
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East and West met this month at a southern Alberta reserve when the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi shared his vision of a world filled with good will.
"It was against the British rule that my grandfather put up his big fight," Rajmohan Gandhi explained to the Stoney children among the guests at the Nakoda Lodge. "He believed in no-violence and love.
"But I forgot all…
akua tuta by Kashtin, a Columbia recording
This musical treat starts by placing you by the lakeshore, the loon crying to your spirit, the hypnotic drum beat luring you into the Kashtin spell.
Light and airy guitars, a blues fiddle, some harmonica and warm, sometimes gravelly vocals harmonize together in a mature sound. These are songs of Mother Earth, self-confidence, compassion…
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It was a sell-out crowd that greeted folks attending this year's Huron Carole Benefit Concert at the University of Alberta Meyer Horowitz theatre December 3.
Although it was the first time that the concert was staged in Edmonton , the public did not disappoint. They packed the house. Consequently, it most certainly paved the way, and then some, for the concert to return…
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An Alberta singing group has won a world singing competition for the second consecutive years.
The Stoney Park Singers of the Nakoda tribe near Morley, Alta. won the 1994 World Singing Championship at the Schemitzun Powwow in Hartford, Connecticut. They took home the same award in 1993.
Coleman Beaver, lead singer of the group, said they felt "pretty good" about…
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OPINION
When the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31, the vampires at Revenue Canada will make good on their threat to bleed even more taxes from status Indian employees working off reserves.
First announced by the now-dead Tory government at the end of 1992, this newest tax-grab allows only some status Indians working for businesses headquartered on an Indian…
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Northern Ontario, Dec. 24, 1964 - on a bitterly cold Christmas Eve - halfway between somewhere and nowhere - a Greyhound bus whispers through the night.
Some passengers try to read, others sleep, most of us just sat crunched up against frosted windows, starting out into the night.
Suddenly the driver let out a curse and half-stood on the brakes. The big bus bucked…
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And they came into the house and saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell down and worshipped Him; and opening their treasures they presented to Him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Matthew 2:11
When the magi from the east arrived in Bethlehem of Judea in search of the newborn King, they brought with them gifts they felt were worthy of royalty.…
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News that the Alberta government may sell its stake in the Alberta Special Waste Treatment Centre at Swan Hills has delighted Indian bands in the area.
"Selling it, getting it privatized, is about the quickest way to get the thing shut down," said Richard Secord, lawyer for the Lesser Slave Lake Tribal Council and the Indian Association of Alberta.
"It's our view…
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Three bands have ratified an agreement with the provincial government ensuring environmental studies be done in the Okanagan region before further development is undertaken.
The initial agreement with the Penticton and Upper and Lower Similkameen bands comes on the heels of a month-long selective blockade of roads leading to the Apex alpine ski resort. The company had…
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The voice of Canada's first lady of the Arctic speeds across 3,200 kilometres of telephone cable as she begins an interview with Windspeaker from her home in Ottawa. Her manner is easy, her approach sure and confidence as she discusses her appointment as the first Ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs.
For more than a month now, Mary Simon has been setting up an Arctic shop…
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Manitoba's First Nations took a giant step towards autonomy on Dec. 7, when Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine and Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin signed the framework agreement that begins dismantling the Department of Indian Affairs in the province.
"Since first contact with the European societies in what they claimed to be called British North…