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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 20, 2001
  • Marilyn Dumont, Windspeaker Contributor

Page 13

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…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Marilyn Dumont, Windspeaker Contributor

Page 13

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…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Carol McDowell, Windspeaker Contributor, CALGARY

Page 12

Native bands under Treaties 6, 7 and 8 in Alberta believe self-government under the current constitutional package will jeopardize their Treaty rights.

Many of them intend to make their dissatisfaction known by abstaining from the Oct. 26 referendum.

"If we become involved in this process we will indicate that we are for the process, and we are not for the process…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Carol McDowell, Windspeaker Contributor, CALGARY

Page 12

Native bands under Treaties 6, 7 and 8 in Alberta believe self-government under the current constitutional package will jeopardize their Treaty rights.

Many of them intend to make their dissatisfaction known by abstaining from the Oct. 26 referendum.

"If we become involved in this process we will indicate that we are for the process, and we are not for the process…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Carol McDowell, Windspeaker Contributor, CALGARY

Page 12

Native bands under Treaties 6, 7 and 8 in Alberta believe self-government under the current constitutional package will jeopardize their Treaty rights.

Many of them intend to make their dissatisfaction known by abstaining from the Oct. 26 referendum.

"If we become involved in this process we will indicate that we are for the process, and we are not for the process…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Carol McDowell, Windspeaker Contributor, CALGARY

Page 12

Native bands under Treaties 6, 7 and 8 in Alberta believe self-government under the current constitutional package will jeopardize their Treaty rights.

Many of them intend to make their dissatisfaction known by abstaining from the Oct. 26 referendum.

"If we become involved in this process we will indicate that we are for the process, and we are not for the process…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Stephane Wuttunee, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

FIRST PERSON

Human nature and a need to belong often repress us from saying what we feel

is important. The following prose is written with pure candidness as only a child could express.

Hear me.

Mine is not a political voice. Neither am I academic, economic, or racist. Sadly,

I lay dormant in most men and women, yet active and alive in all…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Stephane Wuttunee, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

FIRST PERSON

Human nature and a need to belong often repress us from saying what we feel

is important. The following prose is written with pure candidness as only a child could express.

Hear me.

Mine is not a political voice. Neither am I academic, economic, or racist. Sadly,

I lay dormant in most men and women, yet active and alive in all…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Stephane Wuttunee, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

FIRST PERSON

Human nature and a need to belong often repress us from saying what we feel

is important. The following prose is written with pure candidness as only a child could express.

Hear me.

Mine is not a political voice. Neither am I academic, economic, or racist. Sadly,

I lay dormant in most men and women, yet active and alive in all…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Stephane Wuttunee, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

FIRST PERSON

Human nature and a need to belong often repress us from saying what we feel

is important. The following prose is written with pure candidness as only a child could express.

Hear me.

Mine is not a political voice. Neither am I academic, economic, or racist. Sadly,

I lay dormant in most men and women, yet active and alive in all…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Ethel Winnipeg, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 6

OKI or HI! This issue is full of winners...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA - I was invited to the Aboriginal Celebrity Gala at Ben Calf Robe school on Oct. 3. The Feather of Hope AIDS Prevention Society hosted the event. In attendance were Elijah Harper, MLA for Manitoba's Red Sucker Lake, Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Western Arctic MP and the Mayor of Edmonton, Jan Reimer. All three agreed…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Ethel Winnipeg, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 6

OKI or HI! This issue is full of winners...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA - I was invited to the Aboriginal Celebrity Gala at Ben Calf Robe school on Oct. 3. The Feather of Hope AIDS Prevention Society hosted the event. In attendance were Elijah Harper, MLA for Manitoba's Red Sucker Lake, Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Western Arctic MP and the Mayor of Edmonton, Jan Reimer. All three agreed…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Ethel Winnipeg, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 6

OKI or HI! This issue is full of winners...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA - I was invited to the Aboriginal Celebrity Gala at Ben Calf Robe school on Oct. 3. The Feather of Hope AIDS Prevention Society hosted the event. In attendance were Elijah Harper, MLA for Manitoba's Red Sucker Lake, Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Western Arctic MP and the Mayor of Edmonton, Jan Reimer. All three agreed…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Ethel Winnipeg, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 6

OKI or HI! This issue is full of winners...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA - I was invited to the Aboriginal Celebrity Gala at Ben Calf Robe school on Oct. 3. The Feather of Hope AIDS Prevention Society hosted the event. In attendance were Elijah Harper, MLA for Manitoba's Red Sucker Lake, Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Western Arctic MP and the Mayor of Edmonton, Jan Reimer. All three agreed…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Richard Wagamese, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 5

Tansi, ahnee and hello.

It's the choices we make in life and the way we react to the consequences of those choices that determines the extent of our happiness. Learning that has taken the better part of these soon-to-be 37 years I've spent in this reality.

Indeed, it's been the way I've reacted to things that's charted my course. Never

the consummate…