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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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A land swap deal witll see over 250 acres of land exchange hands between the federal government and Fort McKay.
Fort McKay Chief Jim Boucher said, "we will exchange (McKay Reserve) land which is situated on the east side of the Athabasca River for land on the west side of the river where some McKaY residents live at present."
Band council member, Edith Orr, says…
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A small gathering of women met in Calgary last week to discuss a painful, and at times embarrassing subject, sexual child abuse.
The workshop, organized by Gillian Shumski, a doctoral student at the University of Calgary, is being funded by Alberta Native Womens Association (ANWA) and is the first of its kind ever held for Native women.
Shumski explained the problem…
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No feedback from Native people for planned store
"I envy the Indian philosophy very much, but when it comes to business, it is a nightmare. Indian time and out time are not the same thing," said Carol Smith, a Glenbow official who is organizing an Indian arts and crafts store for the Calgary Winter Olympic Games.
Smith, a retail coordinator with the museum says she…
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"Native hopes crushed as talks fail," said the front page headline on my local newspaper on the day after the First Ministers Conference on Aboriginal rights. I've heard other news reports to the same effect-that Native leaders are sad and depressed by the conference failure. I think it's time to correct that impression before Native people get the idea that they should start…
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A hereditary chief of the west coast Gedumden nation has had her people's traditions as well as her innocence upheld in a recent British Columbia court decision.
Just before Christmas, 1984, Chief Mabel Forsythe and her daughter Nancy were wrongly accused of shoplifting and searched in public on the main street of Smither, B.C.
It was later proven that Chief…
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Overcrowded living conditions, substandard sewer and water systems and poverty are blamed for the high rate of tuberculosis infection among Indians in Manitoba.
Dr. Earl Hershfield, director of Manitoba's tuberculosis control centre, says "tuberculosis should not be a problem in developed countries," because of successful TB vaccines developed in the 1950s.
But…
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The case of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian who was extradited from Canada to the United States in 1976 will be debated in the Canadian House of Commons sometime in April.
Jim Fulton, NDP member of Parliament for the Skeena riding in B.C. will introduce a private member's motion in the Canadian Parliament, which calls for a return of Peltier to Canadian soil.
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Metis right recognized
A controversy that exploded at the Metis Association of Alberta (MAA) Annual Assembly over the membership of a Calgary woman was settled quickly and quietly at the Zone 3 annual general meeting March 21.
Freda Martell, whose membership in the association has been questioned by a Red Deer Local was reinstated as a member after a sworn oath was…
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Winspeaker Ontario
The Fur Harvesters Auction Inc.'s 11th annual convention will be held this year on March 1 to 3 at their fur warehouse in North Bay. The theme of this year's convention is Winter Beaver Trapping. Once again this year there will be live entertainment, fur handling (skinning) demonstrations and seminars, as well as the favorite pelt handling contests. The…
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Windspeaker Ontario
The National Aboriginal Forestry Association wants more Aboriginal people working in high-skilled forestry careers.
With only 32 Aboriginal professional foresters in Canada, compared to 12,000 non-Aboriginals, Natives face formidable barriers to full participation in forestry's economic spin-offs, insiders say. If they expect to make resource…
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Windspeaker Ontario
A unique 19th century man who embodied social change while adhering to the status quo amid the strictures of a class-ridden social pecking order in Eastern Canada, used his influence to challenge the limits of conventional Victorian values to an extent that was viewed as exceptional well into the 20th century.
His life is the focus of a living…
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Windspeaker Ontario
"I am so glad to be speaking my language in this place," said Amos Key Jr., executive director of the Woodland Cultural Centre. Key spoke the Ohen:ton Karihweatehkwen (Thanksgiving Address) in the Cayuga language on Jan. 26 preceding a performance of One Voice, Many Stories, a series of sketches portraying life inside the walls of residential school…
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Wndspeaker Ontario
People from communities in the central Ontario region-in the area that includes North Bay to Manitoulin Island-ended 2001 with the annual traditional New Year's Eve powwow in Sagamok First Nation and brought in 2002 with the annual traditional New Year's Day powwow in M'Chigeeng (West Bay) on Manitoulin Island.
There were more than 30 dancers and…
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Windspeaker Ontario
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDBC) launched E-Spirit 2002 on Jan. 7. The Internet-based Aboriginal youth business plan competition is open to Aboriginal students in Grades 10 through 13 across the country.
Using computers at their schools, students go through a 16-week process, creating a detailed business plan and producing a video…
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Windspeaker Ontario
It's hockey season in Ontario and time, once again, for one of the biggest Aboriginal hockey tournaments held annually in this province-the Northern Star Unity Cup.
This is the fifth year for the event that will be held in North Bay at the Pete Palangio Arena with opening ceremonies on Feb. 8 and wrapping up with the championship games in each…