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When the book, The Miss Hobbema Pageant written by W.P. Kinsella hit the bookstores last year, it opened would causing cries of prejudice from Hobbema residents.
Many residents called the book 'racist' and demeaning to Indians although Kinsella maintained it was strictly fiction.
Now David Small Face, an Indian from the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta, is…
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Grand MacEwan College offers a ten-week program to prepare Native women for the working world.
The Native Women's Pre-employment Program at GMCC's Cromdale campus has proved successful for some of those who have completed the program.
Sylvia Gambler, 25, finished the program in October 1989.
"I didn't know what career I wanted. I didn't know what I would…
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Grand MacEwan College offers a ten-week program to prepare Native women for the working world.
The Native Women's Pre-employment Program at GMCC's Cromdale campus has proved successful for some of those who have completed the program.
Sylvia Gambler, 25, finished the program in October 1989.
"I didn't know what career I wanted. I didn't know what I would…
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Grand MacEwan College offers a ten-week program to prepare Native women for the working world.
The Native Women's Pre-employment Program at GMCC's Cromdale campus has proved successful for some of those who have completed the program.
Sylvia Gambler, 25, finished the program in October 1989.
"I didn't know what career I wanted. I didn't know what I would…
Page 14
Grand MacEwan College offers a ten-week program to prepare Native women for the working world.
The Native Women's Pre-employment Program at GMCC's Cromdale campus has proved successful for some of those who have completed the program.
Sylvia Gambler, 25, finished the program in October 1989.
"I didn't know what career I wanted. I didn't know what I would…
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Annoyed by small inaccuracies found in current Metis history, an Edmonton society wants to open a museum in the near future to give people a better background of Metis history currently found in Canada.
The museum would exhibit historical Metis artifacts and be a resource center, according to Gordon Poitras, the main founder of the Louis Riel Historical Society.
He…
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Annoyed by small inaccuracies found in current Metis history, an Edmonton society wants to open a museum in the near future to give people a better background of Metis history currently found in Canada.
The museum would exhibit historical Metis artifacts and be a resource center, according to Gordon Poitras, the main founder of the Louis Riel Historical Society.
He…
Page 11
Annoyed by small inaccuracies found in current Metis history, an Edmonton society wants to open a museum in the near future to give people a better background of Metis history currently found in Canada.
The museum would exhibit historical Metis artifacts and be a resource center, according to Gordon Poitras, the main founder of the Louis Riel Historical Society.
He…
Page 11
Annoyed by small inaccuracies found in current Metis history, an Edmonton society wants to open a museum in the near future to give people a better background of Metis history currently found in Canada.
The museum would exhibit historical Metis artifacts and be a resource center, according to Gordon Poitras, the main founder of the Louis Riel Historical Society.
He…
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There's going to be a showdown between the MAA and Metis Self-determination Society of Alberta.
The two groups have been squabbling since last summer when the Metis Association of Alberta suspended four officials of the association's Zone 3 Regional Council.
The suspended officials went on to form the self-determination society, taking with them the names of Locals…
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There's going to be a showdown between the MAA and Metis Self-determination Society of Alberta.
The two groups have been squabbling since last summer when the Metis Association of Alberta suspended four officials of the association's Zone 3 Regional Council.
The suspended officials went on to form the self-determination society, taking with them the names of Locals…
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There's going to be a showdown between the MAA and Metis Self-determination Society of Alberta.
The two groups have been squabbling since last summer when the Metis Association of Alberta suspended four officials of the association's Zone 3 Regional Council.
The suspended officials went on to form the self-determination society, taking with them the names of Locals…
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There's going to be a showdown between the MAA and Metis Self-determination Society of Alberta.
The two groups have been squabbling since last summer when the Metis Association of Alberta suspended four officials of the association's Zone 3 Regional Council.
The suspended officials went on to form the self-determination society, taking with them the names of Locals…
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It's now written in the pages of Canadian judicial history that Nova Scotia Micmac Indian Donal Marshall Jr. was a victim of Canadian injustice -- almost a decade after he was sent to prison for 11 years for a murder he did not commit.
The damning contents of a Nova Scotia Royal Commission report attest to that.
But while the conclusions and recommendations of the…
Viewpoint
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The whooping cough epidemic in Hobbema and outlying Indian communities in north and central Alberta highlights a very serious problem in Native communities throughout Canada.
That problem is whether the health care system is adequately serving the needs of native people, particularly on Indian reserves.
Hobbema residents have found out firsthand how…