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The Samson Band has closed its schools because of a whooping cough epidemic that has hit 250 Hobbema residents.
One day care, a kindergarten facility and a private school have closed in order for parents to have their children immunized and treated, said Samson Band Councilor Larron Northwest last week.
On Jan. 18 the Hobbema Health Center staff had 100 children…
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Edmonton's Native youth need some breaks if they're to get a crack at playing in the city's minor leagues, says Renee Houle of the Canadian Native Friendship Center (CNFC).
There are too many barriers to their entrance, according to the CNFC program director.
There are no Native teams in the minor fast ball, hockey and soccer leagues, because there aren't enough…
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Edmonton's Native youth need some breaks if they're to get a crack at playing in the city's minor leagues, says Renee Houle of the Canadian Native Friendship Center (CNFC).
There are too many barriers to their entrance, according to the CNFC program director.
There are no Native teams in the minor fast ball, hockey and soccer leagues, because there aren't enough…
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Edmonton's Native youth need some breaks if they're to get a crack at playing in the city's minor leagues, says Renee Houle of the Canadian Native Friendship Center (CNFC).
There are too many barriers to their entrance, according to the CNFC program director.
There are no Native teams in the minor fast ball, hockey and soccer leagues, because there aren't enough…
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Edmonton's Native youth need some breaks if they're to get a crack at playing in the city's minor leagues, says Renee Houle of the Canadian Native Friendship Center (CNFC).
There are too many barriers to their entrance, according to the CNFC program director.
There are no Native teams in the minor fast ball, hockey and soccer leagues, because there aren't enough…
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When Fred Marcel was born in 1916 at Jackfish, south of northern Alberta's Lake Athabasca, his father wondered what lay ahead for his son.
To the 52-year-old Chipewyan trapper, everything was changing.
A year earlier, at Fort Chipewyan, he'd seen the Oblate Mission's Brother Charbonneau sitting in the "Ford", a noisy metal box that moved by itself and smoked like a…
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When Fred Marcel was born in 1916 at Jackfish, south of northern Alberta's Lake Athabasca, his father wondered what lay ahead for his son.
To the 52-year-old Chipewyan trapper, everything was changing.
A year earlier, at Fort Chipewyan, he'd seen the Oblate Mission's Brother Charbonneau sitting in the "Ford", a noisy metal box that moved by itself and smoked like a…
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When Fred Marcel was born in 1916 at Jackfish, south of northern Alberta's Lake Athabasca, his father wondered what lay ahead for his son.
To the 52-year-old Chipewyan trapper, everything was changing.
A year earlier, at Fort Chipewyan, he'd seen the Oblate Mission's Brother Charbonneau sitting in the "Ford", a noisy metal box that moved by itself and smoked like a…
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When Fred Marcel was born in 1916 at Jackfish, south of northern Alberta's Lake Athabasca, his father wondered what lay ahead for his son.
To the 52-year-old Chipewyan trapper, everything was changing.
A year earlier, at Fort Chipewyan, he'd seen the Oblate Mission's Brother Charbonneau sitting in the "Ford", a noisy metal box that moved by itself and smoked like a…
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I first met Mary Gallant on a bright spring morning in May and we didn't exactly hit it off.
With a scarf over her head and long gray white moosehair clinging to her brown stretch pants, she was busy tanning hides.
I was more than half an hour late for our interview.
It was obvious she was angry as she worked in her yard on the Bushe River Reserve, near High…
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I first met Mary Gallant on a bright spring morning in May and we didn't exactly hit it off.
With a scarf over her head and long gray white moosehair clinging to her brown stretch pants, she was busy tanning hides.
I was more than half an hour late for our interview.
It was obvious she was angry as she worked in her yard on the Bushe River Reserve, near High…
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I first met Mary Gallant on a bright spring morning in May and we didn't exactly hit it off.
With a scarf over her head and long gray white moosehair clinging to her brown stretch pants, she was busy tanning hides.
I was more than half an hour late for our interview.
It was obvious she was angry as she worked in her yard on the Bushe River Reserve, near High…
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I first met Mary Gallant on a bright spring morning in May and we didn't exactly hit it off.
With a scarf over her head and long gray white moosehair clinging to her brown stretch pants, she was busy tanning hides.
I was more than half an hour late for our interview.
It was obvious she was angry as she worked in her yard on the Bushe River Reserve, near High…
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Elder Alfred Bonaise is someone who has learned from his difficult experiences in his past.
While has left that past behind him now, the 55 year-old Pine Little, Saskatchewan native still uses it as a series of stepping stones to help lead other Native people to overcome their problems.
As the resident elder at Poundmaker's Lodge, the Native substance abuse…
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Elder Alfred Bonaise is someone who has learned from his difficult experiences in his past.
While has left that past behind him now, the 55 year-old Pine Little, Saskatchewan native still uses it as a series of stepping stones to help lead other Native people to overcome their problems.
As the resident elder at Poundmaker's Lodge, the Native substance abuse…