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Twenty-five years of addiction awareness and counselling services have resulted in a national award for the Metis Addiction council of Saskatchewan.
The Canadian Centre of Substance Abuse Medallion of Distinction for Saskatchewan was presented to the council in Prince Albert on Nov. 16.
"The Metis Addictions Council of Saskatchewan has made important contributions…
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The last day Jill used drugs, she was sick, tired and staying in an Edmonton inner-city hotel infested with cockroaches. Her possessions consisted of the clothes on her back.
She had hit bottom.
The Metis woman from Saskatoon said she had been on the streets for nine years, since she was 17. She came to Edmonton in 1986 to escape an abusive spouse.
Although…
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Tackling fear of 20th century medicine and its practitioners is the goal of a unique series of videos on health care.
Narrated in Aboriginal languages, the six 10-to-15 minute productions deal with issues ranging from registering in a hospital to medical testing and women's health. The producers, Paskwayak Productions in a joint venture with the Opaskwayak Cree Nation,…
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Brian Seesequasis has been thinking about doing a mural for quite some time. That's only natural considering the Beardy Okemasis band member lives down the road from a town full of murals.
Duck Lake, Sask is becoming famous for mural depicting the history of the West. Murals, collectively entitled Faces of Honour, depict the price and passion of a young nation, telling…
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The National Native Role Model Program has a new way of selecting their representatives - by the nominee's peers.
"Role models are now nominated by youth in their communities," said Arlene Skye, program director of the National Native Role Model Program.
The program is designed to reach First Nations and Inuit youth across Canada.
It was initiated and is…
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Although called "vertically challenged" by the ringside announcer at the Northlands Coliseum, Todd Junior Buffalo stood tall when the dust had settled at the Canadian Finals Rodeo XXI in Edmonton Nov. 13.
Buffalo rode to three straight wins in the Boys Steer Riding to open the five-day national championship, then coasted to victory and winning of $2,061.40.
"I…
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To prevent AIDS from becoming the next big killer of Canadian Aboriginals, Natives have to go beyond education and prevent, an AIDS worker says.
"It's true that safer sex will stop the spread of HIV," Linda Day of the B.C. First Nations AIDS Society told the B.. HIV/AIDS conference in Vancouver this month.
"But the unhealthy and destructive behaviors that lead to…
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With the use of computers in Native schools and communities, many Native children and adults are using the Internet to receive an education.
On a chilly Tuesday morning, a Lakota woman sends her two children off to school. It's a busy day for her; she is working on her masters degree thesis in business administration. The is attending a university over 2,000 kilometres…
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The most successful edition of the Canadian Finals Rodeo ever held at the Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton may also be the last. The lack of NHL hockey and the continuing baseball strike left a sports void which the rodeo was able to fill. CFR garnered more media attention than ever before. And attendance in the building was up by 7,947 over six rounds, in spite of a lower…
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Protesters continued to blockade the band school and administration offices on the Long Lake Cree Reserve, ignoring an injunction issued to end the blockade.
Six councillors - John Gladue, John Herman Kehewin, Marc Gadwa, James Dion, George Dion and Glen Youngchief - are opposing Chief Gordon Gadwa and two councillors loyal to him.
The councillors, along with…
This is the final part of the three-part series looking at taxation as a means of creating a revenue base for self-government. In the last installment in the Oct. 10, 1994 issue, we looked at how the 36 B.C. First Nations currently using taxation went about implementing their strategies.
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A second problem that remains in taxation implementation is timing. In a few cases in…
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It was the showdown that never happened. The case of the missing confrontation. Though it seemed, at least to me, like the media was building it up to be something potentially and politically volatile, I must confess it died with a whimper, not a bang.
I am, of course, talking about my appearance at Toronto's International Festival of Authors, with the most notable of…
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Remembrance Day is a day of pain and confusion for many veterans but especially so for many of the Native Canadians who fought in the World Wars.
The First World War saw a minimum of 4,000 Native veterans fighting with the allies and during the Second World War there were more than 3,000 Native veterans.
For the men and women who saw duty, it was an experience that…
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Windspeaker is honored to present the following Cheers and Jeers to the people and organizations who have made either outstanding contributions to Native-Business relations these past few weeks or have shown absolute and utter disdain for the efforts of Native groups in the protection of their people, past and present.
Cheers to B.C. Supreme Court Judge R. Hutchison who…
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The skeletal remains of three young Native women have been found 16 kilometres south of Saskatoon, near the South Saskatchewan River.
Eva Taysup, 30, a former resident of Rose Valley, Sask., has been identified through a tip and by dental charts, said Corp. Jerry Wilde of the Saskatoon RCMP.
Wile said the women have been missing between one-and-a-half and three…