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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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It's been one year since the world first saw videotape of Innu children in the remote village of Davis Inlet high on gasoline fumes screaming about a secret suicide pact.
And since then the community's situation has grown worse, Chief Katie Rich said. The suicide rate is three times higher, vandalism is rampant and Innu leaders are no closer to moving the village to the…
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Tom Jackson is in the foothills of southern Alberta pretending to be in the Northwest Territories.
Standing just off to the side of an airstrip too short for a real plane to land on, he munches a sandwich in front of a camera while waiting for the director's cue.
Except for the length of the airfield, the scenery resembles any number of tiny Native communities…
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Tom Jackson is in the foothills of southern Alberta pretending to be in the Northwest Territories.
Standing just off to the side of an airstrip too short for a real plane to land on, he munches a sandwich in front of a camera while waiting for the director's cue.
Except for the length of the airfield, the scenery resembles any number of tiny Native communities…
Page 15
Tom Jackson is in the foothills of southern Alberta pretending to be in the Northwest Territories.
Standing just off to the side of an airstrip too short for a real plane to land on, he munches a sandwich in front of a camera while waiting for the director's cue.
Except for the length of the airfield, the scenery resembles any number of tiny Native communities…
Page 15
Tom Jackson is in the foothills of southern Alberta pretending to be in the Northwest Territories.
Standing just off to the side of an airstrip too short for a real plane to land on, he munches a sandwich in front of a camera while waiting for the director's cue.
Except for the length of the airfield, the scenery resembles any number of tiny Native communities…
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Dianna Wabie may practise an obscure Native art form, but she doesn't have any trouble finding materials.
That's because her husband is a commercial fisherman.
Wabie creates likenesses of wild flowers using Whitefish scales and porcupine quills. The school teacher and cattle farmer from Lac La Biche, Alta. bases her work on an ancient art form used by the Woodland…
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Dianna Wabie may practise an obscure Native art form, but she doesn't have any trouble finding materials.
That's because her husband is a commercial fisherman.
Wabie creates likenesses of wild flowers using Whitefish scales and porcupine quills. The school teacher and cattle farmer from Lac La Biche, Alta. bases her work on an ancient art form used by the Woodland…
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Dianna Wabie may practise an obscure Native art form, but she doesn't have any trouble finding materials.
That's because her husband is a commercial fisherman.
Wabie creates likenesses of wild flowers using Whitefish scales and porcupine quills. The school teacher and cattle farmer from Lac La Biche, Alta. bases her work on an ancient art form used by the Woodland…
Page 14
Dianna Wabie may practise an obscure Native art form, but she doesn't have any trouble finding materials.
That's because her husband is a commercial fisherman.
Wabie creates likenesses of wild flowers using Whitefish scales and porcupine quills. The school teacher and cattle farmer from Lac La Biche, Alta. bases her work on an ancient art form used by the Woodland…
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A large number of Inuit of the Eastern Arctic born since the mid-1960s have Manitoba birth certificates, a situation Inuit women want to see changed.
Speaking before the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, representatives of Pauktuutit (The Inuit Women's Association) called for changes in mid-wifery practices in the far North.
"To us, healthy children are born…
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A large number of Inuit of the Eastern Arctic born since the mid-1960s have Manitoba birth certificates, a situation Inuit women want to see changed.
Speaking before the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, representatives of Pauktuutit (The Inuit Women's Association) called for changes in mid-wifery practices in the far North.
"To us, healthy children are born…
Page 10
A large number of Inuit of the Eastern Arctic born since the mid-1960s have Manitoba birth certificates, a situation Inuit women want to see changed.
Speaking before the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, representatives of Pauktuutit (The Inuit Women's Association) called for changes in mid-wifery practices in the far North.
"To us, healthy children are born…
Page 10
A large number of Inuit of the Eastern Arctic born since the mid-1960s have Manitoba birth certificates, a situation Inuit women want to see changed.
Speaking before the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, representatives of Pauktuutit (The Inuit Women's Association) called for changes in mid-wifery practices in the far North.
"To us, healthy children are born…
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When pressed, Karen Decontie, P.Eng., admits it is sometimes difficult - and tiring - to be a role model.
Then she smiles and tells you that it is also important to her to tell other Native women about her work as a structural engineer, and to encourage them in pursuing their own career goals.
"It's very difficult for Native women," says the soft-spoken 27-year-old…
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When pressed, Karen Decontie, P.Eng., admits it is sometimes difficult - and tiring - to be a role model.
Then she smiles and tells you that it is also important to her to tell other Native women about her work as a structural engineer, and to encourage them in pursuing their own career goals.
"It's very difficult for Native women," says the soft-spoken 27-year-old…