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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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While many of us simply watched the horror of a terrorist attack occurring in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 with shock and disbelief, a group of elementary school children in New Brunswick decided they would try to make a difference for the victims.
After viewing the destruction, students in teacher Gerry Duplessie's Grade 5/6 class at Eel Ground First…
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While many of us simply watched the horror of a terrorist attack occurring in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 with shock and disbelief, a group of elementary school children in New Brunswick decided they would try to make a difference for the victims.
After viewing the destruction, students in teacher Gerry Duplessie's Grade 5/6 class at Eel Ground First…
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If the old adage that says the first step towards healing is admitting you've got a problem is true, then it appears the first step in the fight against racism in Canada still needs to be taken.
That's the conclusion shared by most Native people-and a few non-Native people-we talked to this month after they watched National Chief Matthew Coon Come and Indian Affairs…
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If the old adage that says the first step towards healing is admitting you've got a problem is true, then it appears the first step in the fight against racism in Canada still needs to be taken.
That's the conclusion shared by most Native people-and a few non-Native people-we talked to this month after they watched National Chief Matthew Coon Come and Indian Affairs…
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Dear Editor:
I'm interested in getting a feel for the Aboriginal voice on events in New York City. In this First Nation near Rice Lake, 16 miles north of the 401, there are American flags on some properties. Most of us, being of assimilated stock, certainly respect the fundamental principles that flow to us through the Canadian Charter, and to the south to our American…
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Dear Editor:
I'm interested in getting a feel for the Aboriginal voice on events in New York City. In this First Nation near Rice Lake, 16 miles north of the 401, there are American flags on some properties. Most of us, being of assimilated stock, certainly respect the fundamental principles that flow to us through the Canadian Charter, and to the south to our American…
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Dear Editor:
As we look over 400 years of contact and review our present situation, we need to ask ourselves a few fundamental questions: Where are we? Who are we? Are we still the people we claim to be?
I think an obvious answer to that last question is no, we are not. That is not necessarily a bad thing, because now you are looking at the core of nationhood, and…
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Dear Editor:
As we look over 400 years of contact and review our present situation, we need to ask ourselves a few fundamental questions: Where are we? Who are we? Are we still the people we claim to be?
I think an obvious answer to that last question is no, we are not. That is not necessarily a bad thing, because now you are looking at the core of nationhood, and…
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As of 9.11 Fear is the currency of our existence. It is projected into our lives; it is bought, sold, traded and consumed by us. We eat Fear for breakfast, take it home with us at lunch, and swallow it whole at supper time. It accompanies us on our daily journey-we go to bed with Fear at night, and we wake up with it in the morning. In the new day we walk with its cold hand on…
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As of 9.11 Fear is the currency of our existence. It is projected into our lives; it is bought, sold, traded and consumed by us. We eat Fear for breakfast, take it home with us at lunch, and swallow it whole at supper time. It accompanies us on our daily journey-we go to bed with Fear at night, and we wake up with it in the morning. In the new day we walk with its cold hand on…
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About a year-and-a-half ago, my Mohawk girlfriend and I, a fellow of proud Ojibway heritage, found ourselves in the history-rich halls of Europe, lecturing at a university deep in the heart of North-eastern Germany. Our talk dealt with issues about being Native (or Red Indian as we were often referred to), the propaganda versus the reality, how our two different nations viewed…
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One of the least pleasurable activities of human existence, and there are a few, is to select a leader, or better yet, to decide which leader to follow. In the past I have criticized many of them, but today I am back-peddling and there is good reason. When you fling around as much mud as I have, you have to have a big cloth with you. From time to time it is evident that you must…
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One of the least pleasurable activities of human existence, and there are a few, is to select a leader, or better yet, to decide which leader to follow. In the past I have criticized many of them, but today I am back-peddling and there is good reason. When you fling around as much mud as I have, you have to have a big cloth with you. From time to time it is evident that you must…
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The Sept. 5 edition of the Globe and Mail went far to define the history of the media's coverage of the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
On the top of page A14 (the editorial section) is the paper's assessment of the Ontario premier's actions related to the death of an unarmed Native protester, Dudley George, at the hands of the…
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The Sept. 5 edition of the Globe and Mail went far to define the history of the media's coverage of the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
On the top of page A14 (the editorial section) is the paper's assessment of the Ontario premier's actions related to the death of an unarmed Native protester, Dudley George, at the hands of the…