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  • Connie Cheecham, Windspeaker Contributor

Page 9

While other kids in grade school were busy playing games and finding new friends, Ruth Cuthand remembers her frequent visits with her father (Stan Cuthand) to the house of Gerald Tailfeathers. Here was her first introduction to the world of art.

"I would sit at a chair in Gerald's studio and I was just fascinated with the movement of the paint brush and the paint on the…

  • Connie Cheecham, Windspeaker Contributor

Page 9

While other kids in grade school were busy playing games and finding new friends, Ruth Cuthand remembers her frequent visits with her father (Stan Cuthand) to the house of Gerald Tailfeathers. Here was her first introduction to the world of art.

"I would sit at a chair in Gerald's studio and I was just fascinated with the movement of the paint brush and the paint on the…

  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Toronto

Page 8

The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has worked out a set of recommendations for economic development which could help Native communities become self-sufficient and self-governing.

"It is obvious that we need immediate change and progress to allow Aboriginal Canadians to reclaim their pride, heritage and self-determining status," said Patrick Lavelle, Chairman and…

  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Toronto

Page 8

The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has worked out a set of recommendations for economic development which could help Native communities become self-sufficient and self-governing.

"It is obvious that we need immediate change and progress to allow Aboriginal Canadians to reclaim their pride, heritage and self-determining status," said Patrick Lavelle, Chairman and…

  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Toronto

Page 8

The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has worked out a set of recommendations for economic development which could help Native communities become self-sufficient and self-governing.

"It is obvious that we need immediate change and progress to allow Aboriginal Canadians to reclaim their pride, heritage and self-determining status," said Patrick Lavelle, Chairman and…

  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Toronto

Page 8

The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business has worked out a set of recommendations for economic development which could help Native communities become self-sufficient and self-governing.

"It is obvious that we need immediate change and progress to allow Aboriginal Canadians to reclaim their pride, heritage and self-determining status," said Patrick Lavelle, Chairman and…

  • Drew Hayden Taylor, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

OPINION

Recently, I was innocently strolling through the newly reopened Art Gallery of Ontario when I looked up, looked wwaaaaayy up. There, towering a good 25 feet or so above me, was a hugely written word carved into immutable stone.

It was the word "Ojibway," which refers to the Aboriginal nation I'm just lucky enough to be a member of. And around that…

  • Drew Hayden Taylor, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

OPINION

Recently, I was innocently strolling through the newly reopened Art Gallery of Ontario when I looked up, looked wwaaaaayy up. There, towering a good 25 feet or so above me, was a hugely written word carved into immutable stone.

It was the word "Ojibway," which refers to the Aboriginal nation I'm just lucky enough to be a member of. And around that…

  • Drew Hayden Taylor, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

OPINION

Recently, I was innocently strolling through the newly reopened Art Gallery of Ontario when I looked up, looked wwaaaaayy up. There, towering a good 25 feet or so above me, was a hugely written word carved into immutable stone.

It was the word "Ojibway," which refers to the Aboriginal nation I'm just lucky enough to be a member of. And around that…

  • Drew Hayden Taylor, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

OPINION

Recently, I was innocently strolling through the newly reopened Art Gallery of Ontario when I looked up, looked wwaaaaayy up. There, towering a good 25 feet or so above me, was a hugely written word carved into immutable stone.

It was the word "Ojibway," which refers to the Aboriginal nation I'm just lucky enough to be a member of. And around that…

  • Gina Teel, Windspeaker Contributor, Edmonton

Page R10

After watching the national Film Board series Daughters of the Country in the mid '80s, a film reviewer commented that "not much has changed in 200 years." He was referring to the attitudes between white and Native society detailed in the series. It's been six years since that review, and sadly, still not much has changed.

The award-winning series is four one-hour films…

  • Gina Teel, Windspeaker Contributor, Edmonton

Page R10

After watching the national Film Board series Daughters of the Country in the mid '80s, a film reviewer commented that "not much has changed in 200 years." He was referring to the attitudes between white and Native society detailed in the series. It's been six years since that review, and sadly, still not much has changed.

The award-winning series is four one-hour films…

  • Gina Teel, Windspeaker Contributor, Edmonton

Page R10

After watching the national Film Board series Daughters of the Country in the mid '80s, a film reviewer commented that "not much has changed in 200 years." He was referring to the attitudes between white and Native society detailed in the series. It's been six years since that review, and sadly, still not much has changed.

The award-winning series is four one-hour films…

  • Gina Teel, Windspeaker Contributor, Edmonton

Page R10

After watching the national Film Board series Daughters of the Country in the mid '80s, a film reviewer commented that "not much has changed in 200 years." He was referring to the attitudes between white and Native society detailed in the series. It's been six years since that review, and sadly, still not much has changed.

The award-winning series is four one-hour films…

  • Gina Teel, Windspeaker Contributor, Edmonton

Page R10

Artist Heather Shillinglaw never expected to be so moved by a film. But something asbout "Places Not Our Own," a film that chronicles the social ostracism

of a Metis family forced to live as squatters in the 1930's, touched a raw nerve.

The result was an artwork entitled "The Traveller," one of 14 emotionally turbulent works inspired by a series of films on Metis…