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Windspeaker Publication

Windspeaker Publication

Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.

  • October 26, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 23

Communities Taking Action will be the theme of the Second Annual Conference on Diabetes and Aboriginal Peoples being planned for Jan.

24 to 27, 2002 in Quebec City.

The conference will be co-hosted by the National Aboriginal Diabetes Association, and the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission.

Among the highlights of the…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Inna Dansereau, Windspeaker Contributor, Paul First Nation Alberta

Page 23

Eighteen four-person teams came out to golf for a good cause despite the cold, windy weather on Sept. 7 -the second annual diabetes awareness golf scramble at the Paul First Nation.

The money goes to the Three Feathers Research Foundation, which is an extension of the Arnold J. Brant Scramble for Diabetes Golf Tournament organized by members of the Tyendinaga Mohawk…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Inna Dansereau, Windspeaker Contributor, Paul First Nation Alberta

Page 23

Eighteen four-person teams came out to golf for a good cause despite the cold, windy weather on Sept. 7 -the second annual diabetes awareness golf scramble at the Paul First Nation.

The money goes to the Three Feathers Research Foundation, which is an extension of the Arnold J. Brant Scramble for Diabetes Golf Tournament organized by members of the Tyendinaga Mohawk…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Inna Dansereau, Windspeaker Contributor, Paul First Nation Alberta

Page 23

Eighteen four-person teams came out to golf for a good cause despite the cold, windy weather on Sept. 7 -the second annual diabetes awareness golf scramble at the Paul First Nation.

The money goes to the Three Feathers Research Foundation, which is an extension of the Arnold J. Brant Scramble for Diabetes Golf Tournament organized by members of the Tyendinaga Mohawk…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Inna Dansereau, Windspeaker Contributor, Paul First Nation Alberta

Page 23

Eighteen four-person teams came out to golf for a good cause despite the cold, windy weather on Sept. 7 -the second annual diabetes awareness golf scramble at the Paul First Nation.

The money goes to the Three Feathers Research Foundation, which is an extension of the Arnold J. Brant Scramble for Diabetes Golf Tournament organized by members of the Tyendinaga Mohawk…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Cheryl Petten, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Dryden Ontario

Page 21

The Healing Trail program has been up and running for less than a year, but has already met and exceeded many of its goals.

The program, a three-year pilot project funded through Health Canada, was launched in June. The program is aimed at Aboriginal and Metis people in the Dryden area, but everything being done through the program is designed to be adopted and adapted by…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Cheryl Petten, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Dryden Ontario

Page 21

The Healing Trail program has been up and running for less than a year, but has already met and exceeded many of its goals.

The program, a three-year pilot project funded through Health Canada, was launched in June. The program is aimed at Aboriginal and Metis people in the Dryden area, but everything being done through the program is designed to be adopted and adapted by…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Cheryl Petten, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Dryden Ontario

Page 21

The Healing Trail program has been up and running for less than a year, but has already met and exceeded many of its goals.

The program, a three-year pilot project funded through Health Canada, was launched in June. The program is aimed at Aboriginal and Metis people in the Dryden area, but everything being done through the program is designed to be adopted and adapted by…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Cheryl Petten, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Dryden Ontario

Page 21

The Healing Trail program has been up and running for less than a year, but has already met and exceeded many of its goals.

The program, a three-year pilot project funded through Health Canada, was launched in June. The program is aimed at Aboriginal and Metis people in the Dryden area, but everything being done through the program is designed to be adopted and adapted by…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Joan Taillon, Windspeaker Staff Writer

Page 19

By The Skin of the Teeth

By G.E.M Munro

Tangent Books, Inc.

307 pages

$24.95 (sc)

When I saw G.E.M. Munro's recently published work of fiction, By the Skin of the Teeth, with a painting by him illustrating the front cover, I wanted to like the book.

I was only a little amused that the paperback, self-published under the imprint of…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Cheryl Petten, Windspeaker Staff Writer

Page 18

Born With A Tooth Stories

By Joseph Boyden

Cormorant Books Inc., Toronto

284 pages

$21.95 (sc)

Joseph Boyden didn't grow up on a reserve in Northern Ontario, but most of the characters contained in his book Born With a Tooth Stories did.

The book is a collection of short stories, most of which take place on reserves in the north, and…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Cheryl Petten, Windspeaker Staff Writer

Page 18

Born With A Tooth Stories

By Joseph Boyden

Cormorant Books Inc., Toronto

284 pages

$21.95 (sc)

Joseph Boyden didn't grow up on a reserve in Northern Ontario, but most of the characters contained in his book Born With a Tooth Stories did.

The book is a collection of short stories, most of which take place on reserves in the north, and…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Cheryl Petten, Windspeaker Staff Writer

Page 18

Born With A Tooth Stories

By Joseph Boyden

Cormorant Books Inc., Toronto

284 pages

$21.95 (sc)

Joseph Boyden didn't grow up on a reserve in Northern Ontario, but most of the characters contained in his book Born With a Tooth Stories did.

The book is a collection of short stories, most of which take place on reserves in the north, and…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Cheryl Petten, Windspeaker Staff Writer

Page 18

Born With A Tooth Stories

By Joseph Boyden

Cormorant Books Inc., Toronto

284 pages

$21.95 (sc)

Joseph Boyden didn't grow up on a reserve in Northern Ontario, but most of the characters contained in his book Born With a Tooth Stories did.

The book is a collection of short stories, most of which take place on reserves in the north, and…

  • October 26, 2001
  • Anna Petten (Seven years old), Windspeaker Contributor

Page 18

The Sleeping Lady

Retold by Ann Dixon

Alaska Northwest Books

The book The Sleeping Lady is about a man and a woman who are in love. But the man had to go to war and the woman promised to wait for him. So she slept on the hill until he returned. It is a Native story that is good for kids. It is a long book, but it is a good book. There are lots of pretty…