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The Idle No More movement continues in Edmonton on Dec. 21, 2013. The Edmonton Rally is to coincide with other rallies and events planned throughout Canada (as well as parts of the United States) in an effort to draw attention to the plight of Canada's Indigenous peoples their treaty rights and the relationship with the Harper government.
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Though their event is still 19 months away, officials with the 2014 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) are working full steam ahead.
Regina was awarded the 2014 NAIG in May of 2011. The host society has completed many recent steps as the games preparations heat up.
Regina officials have a goal in mind: to make this the best NAIG ever.
“We’re going to try,” said Glen…
Hockey equipment drive
Thanks in large part to a Junior A hockey coach, Aboriginal youth in a northern Ontario community received some much needed equipment.
Alex Welker, an assistant coach with the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Whitby Fury, spearheaded an equipment drive for the Sandy Lake First Nation in early October.
Welker’s son Alex is a first-year…
Cellist Cris Derksen might just have become the second Aboriginal in space.
And while she might not have literally travelled off the planet–as Chickasaw astronaut John Herrington did a decade ago–the electronically savvy, classically-trained instrumentalist was nominated for a 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award (APCMA) for her outer space-themed video ‘Pow Wow Wow,’ created by…
Juno-winning musician and producer Alida Kinnie Starr is set to release her new album in mid-January, following an intensive Indiegogo fundraising campaign to independently fund ‘Kiss It’.
The 42-year-old’s work has been described by the Globe and Mail as “raw feral talent,” and she confesses to having some rather unusual feral talents herself.
“I have special bird powers,” she…
Hook Up
Lorimer Press
Written By Kim Firmston
151 pages
Book Review
By Christine McFarlane
“Hook Up” is a young teenage fiction book that takes readers on a journey with Cody Manywounds, a First Nations teenager from the Tsuu T’ina Nation who is trying to find his place in the world.
In the past, Manywounds had gotten into trouble with two of his best…
Edmonton Rally Dec. 21, 2012
**FEATURING**
DR. SHARON VENNE,
DANIKA LITTLECHILD
AARON PAQUETTE
**RESPECT MOTHER EARTH & CEREMONIES - PIPE PRESENT**
Therefore, NO alcohol, drugs, under influence, or littering permitted
6:00 AM SACRED POINT ONE – WATER CEREMONY…
The Chiefs of Ontario held a press conference in Toronto during their Special Assembly on Nov. 29, 2012. Gordon Peters, grand chief of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians, the Education portfolio holder with the Chiefs of Ontario, wanted to set the record straight about the First Nations rejection of the proposed federal legislation on education.
“It’s a unilateral act by the…
“Disheartened” is the word Onion Lake Cree Nation Chief Wallace Fox uses to describe how he feels about a meeting held between the Assembly of First Nations and federal government representatives to discuss First Nations education. The meeting took place when he was on his way home from the Special Chiefs Assembly held Dec. 4 to Dec. 6.
“One must ask themselves why the national chief…
Artist—Tracy Bone
Song—Woman of Red
Album—Woman of Red
Year—2012
Tracy Bone is a well known Aboriginal songstress from Manitoba and this 7 song cd has only one downside. Seven songs isn’t enough. If you are tuned into an Aboriginal radio network, you are now likely familiar with the lively and confident opening track of This Ol’ Habit where Tracy exercises her…
A few weeks ago, Alvin Fiddler was informed that as much as 80 per cent of members in some Nishnawbe Aski Nation communities were addicted to painkillers.
“That means whole communities are being impacted,” said the NAN deputy grand chief.
Now the battle against painkillers such as OxyContin has become even that much harder.
Despite warnings from First Nations, tribal…
The rallying cry of “we have had enough” was heard loudly across the country as thousands of First Nations people gathered in cities from Vancouver to Happy Valley-Goose Bay to Whitehorse on Dec. 10.
“Idle No More. We’re telling the Harper government they do not have our consent,” said Sylvia McAdam, one of four women who organized the Idle No More movement. McAdam addressed the…
First Nations in the country have reached the end of their patience. That was noticeably evident during what’s being called the ‘Scuffle on the Hill’ on Dec. 4, 2012.
Chiefs were in a special assembly hosted by the Assembly of First Nations in Gatineau. They were expressing their frustration on the legislation contained in the Conservative government’s Omnibus Bill or Bill C-45. First…
Danita Nez and Steven Kakimoosit, two Native Education College students, organized a protest against the federal government’s omnibus C-45 bill in just five days.
Now they’re thinking bigger.
The Dec. 10 protest, one of many national Idle No More events, brought out a large and energetic group that marched from Main St. at 5th St. to the Vancouver Art Gallery toting signs, waving…
For the third straight year Wilfrid Laurier University officials hosted an event combining a bit of lacrosse with some post-secondary school awareness.
The third annual High School Friendship Lacrosse Tournament was staged at the university’s Waterloo campus on recently.
About 70 Aboriginal teenagers, from five high schools in Brantford, took part in the day. Not all of the…