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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 five years since Linda Taylor rescued a young Native girl from the Huronia Museum.
Her remains had been hanging on the wall as part of a display of Native bones in this central Ontario community.
Taylor said the exhibit was offensive. The bones of Natives are sacred and belong in the ground, she said.
"And it's not just Natives," said the 37-year-…
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On first acquaintance, Wayne Hamby doesn't seem to be a policeman, much less the chief of a busy, growing police department. But appearances would certainly be deceiving in this case.
Despite his soft-spoken manner, the newly appointed Chief of Police on the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta, is a highly qualified law enforcement officer. And though shy with the press, he…
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On first acquaintance, Wayne Hamby doesn't seem to be a policeman, much less the chief of a busy, growing police department. But appearances would certainly be deceiving in this case.
Despite his soft-spoken manner, the newly appointed Chief of Police on the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta, is a highly qualified law enforcement officer. And though shy with the press, he…
Page 24
On first acquaintance, Wayne Hamby doesn't seem to be a policeman, much less the chief of a busy, growing police department. But appearances would certainly be deceiving in this case.
Despite his soft-spoken manner, the newly appointed Chief of Police on the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta, is a highly qualified law enforcement officer. And though shy with the press, he…
Page 24
On first acquaintance, Wayne Hamby doesn't seem to be a policeman, much less the chief of a busy, growing police department. But appearances would certainly be deceiving in this case.
Despite his soft-spoken manner, the newly appointed Chief of Police on the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta, is a highly qualified law enforcement officer. And though shy with the press, he…
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The first international exhibition of contemporary First Nations art to be organized by the National Gallery of Canada is open to the public until Nov. 22.
Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada presents 18 contemporary First Nation artists from Canada and the United States. Their work ranges from ceremonial masks to paintings, sculpture and…
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The first international exhibition of contemporary First Nations art to be organized by the National Gallery of Canada is open to the public until Nov. 22.
Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada presents 18 contemporary First Nation artists from Canada and the United States. Their work ranges from ceremonial masks to paintings, sculpture and…
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The first international exhibition of contemporary First Nations art to be organized by the National Gallery of Canada is open to the public until Nov. 22.
Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada presents 18 contemporary First Nation artists from Canada and the United States. Their work ranges from ceremonial masks to paintings, sculpture and…
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The first international exhibition of contemporary First Nations art to be organized by the National Gallery of Canada is open to the public until Nov. 22.
Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada presents 18 contemporary First Nation artists from Canada and the United States. Their work ranges from ceremonial masks to paintings, sculpture and…
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Canada's Michelangelo is a Dene Indian from Cold Lake, Alta.
Alex Janvier has been selected to paint his abstract work on the massive dome
of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa this winter.
Although Janvier jokes about turning the dome into the Sistine Chapel, the artistic commission is one of the most important in the country.
A temporary…
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Canada's Michelangelo is a Dene Indian from Cold Lake, Alta.
Alex Janvier has been selected to paint his abstract work on the massive dome
of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa this winter.
Although Janvier jokes about turning the dome into the Sistine Chapel, the artistic commission is one of the most important in the country.
A temporary…
Page 14
Canada's Michelangelo is a Dene Indian from Cold Lake, Alta.
Alex Janvier has been selected to paint his abstract work on the massive dome
of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa this winter.
Although Janvier jokes about turning the dome into the Sistine Chapel, the artistic commission is one of the most important in the country.
A temporary…
Page 14
Canada's Michelangelo is a Dene Indian from Cold Lake, Alta.
Alex Janvier has been selected to paint his abstract work on the massive dome
of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa this winter.
Although Janvier jokes about turning the dome into the Sistine Chapel, the artistic commission is one of the most important in the country.
A temporary…
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What Michael Mann's direction brings us in the Last of the Mohicans, a script adapted from the James Fenimore Cooper novel, is a well crafted visual feast of images about "the frontier." This is imagery that is embedded in a tradition of Romanticism about the "new world." This is not to say this film avoids the violence of Black Robe - there are generous portions of that, in new…
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What Michael Mann's direction brings us in the Last of the Mohicans, a script adapted from the James Fenimore Cooper novel, is a well crafted visual feast of images about "the frontier." This is imagery that is embedded in a tradition of Romanticism about the "new world." This is not to say this film avoids the violence of Black Robe - there are generous portions of that, in new…