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The Syracuse SkyChiefs are probably wondering why they didn't take the advice of local Native people years ago.
Up until this season, the Toronto Blue Jay's AAA International League affiliate club, which was founded in 1934, had been called the Chiefs. The club's logo was a simple one: an Indian head.
This season, the Indian head logo is gone - replaced by a…
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It's not too often that a teenager is the toast of the town but Jonathan Cheechoo is not your average teenager.
Cheechoo, a native of Moose Factory, Ont. (pop. 1,800), is being projected as a future National Hockey League player.
His career took a step in the right direction on June 7 when he was chosen in the first round, fifth over-all, by the Belleville Bulls in…
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It's not too often that a teenager is the toast of the town but Jonathan Cheechoo is not your average teenager.
Cheechoo, a native of Moose Factory, Ont. (pop. 1,800), is being projected as a future National Hockey League player.
His career took a step in the right direction on June 7 when he was chosen in the first round, fifth over-all, by the Belleville Bulls in…
Page 13
It's not too often that a teenager is the toast of the town but Jonathan Cheechoo is not your average teenager.
Cheechoo, a native of Moose Factory, Ont. (pop. 1,800), is being projected as a future National Hockey League player.
His career took a step in the right direction on June 7 when he was chosen in the first round, fifth over-all, by the Belleville Bulls in…
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It appears there will be at least six candidates for the chiefs to consider when they gather in Vancouver later this month to select the next national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Incumbent Ovide Mercredi and the unanimous choice of British Columbia's First Nations Summit, Wendy Grant-John, have already declared their intentions to run.
They've recently…
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It appears there will be at least six candidates for the chiefs to consider when they gather in Vancouver later this month to select the next national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Incumbent Ovide Mercredi and the unanimous choice of British Columbia's First Nations Summit, Wendy Grant-John, have already declared their intentions to run.
They've recently…
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It appears there will be at least six candidates for the chiefs to consider when they gather in Vancouver later this month to select the next national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Incumbent Ovide Mercredi and the unanimous choice of British Columbia's First Nations Summit, Wendy Grant-John, have already declared their intentions to run.
They've recently…
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The Dakota Tipi First Nation in Manitoba will have its sundance from June 26 to June 29, with the purification taking place four days earlier. Normally, this is private information, but this First Nation has taken a different approach: it's advertising the sundance.
For Carl Pasche, band councillor with Dakota Tipi, this is one of the best ways for people to learn about…
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The Dakota Tipi First Nation in Manitoba will have its sundance from June 26 to June 29, with the purification taking place four days earlier. Normally, this is private information, but this First Nation has taken a different approach: it's advertising the sundance.
For Carl Pasche, band councillor with Dakota Tipi, this is one of the best ways for people to learn about…
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The Dakota Tipi First Nation in Manitoba will have its sundance from June 26 to June 29, with the purification taking place four days earlier. Normally, this is private information, but this First Nation has taken a different approach: it's advertising the sundance.
For Carl Pasche, band councillor with Dakota Tipi, this is one of the best ways for people to learn about…
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A four-day fatality inquiry into the death of a 13-month-old Mikisew Cree First Nation boy wrapped up at Edmonton's provincial court on June 14 with emotional testimony from his parents.
Skylar Waquan died on Aug. 16 1996, after being diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis. The disease attacks and kills body tissue, and can be likened to the flesh-eating disease.
…
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A four-day fatality inquiry into the death of a 13-month-old Mikisew Cree First Nation boy wrapped up at Edmonton's provincial court on June 14 with emotional testimony from his parents.
Skylar Waquan died on Aug. 16 1996, after being diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis. The disease attacks and kills body tissue, and can be likened to the flesh-eating disease.
…
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A four-day fatality inquiry into the death of a 13-month-old Mikisew Cree First Nation boy wrapped up at Edmonton's provincial court on June 14 with emotional testimony from his parents.
Skylar Waquan died on Aug. 16 1996, after being diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis. The disease attacks and kills body tissue, and can be likened to the flesh-eating disease.
…
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REVIEW
Scapegoat: How the Army Betrayed Kyle Brown
By Peter Worthington and Kyle Brown
338 pages, $8.99 (pb)
Bantam-Seal Books
Elvin Kyle Brown did not kill Shidane Abukar Arone. The Department of National Defence has spent the last four years trying to obscure that fact.
Brown is the Edmonton-born paratrooper convicted of manslaughter…
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REVIEW
Scapegoat: How the Army Betrayed Kyle Brown
By Peter Worthington and Kyle Brown
338 pages, $8.99 (pb)
Bantam-Seal Books
Elvin Kyle Brown did not kill Shidane Abukar Arone. The Department of National Defence has spent the last four years trying to obscure that fact.
Brown is the Edmonton-born paratrooper convicted of manslaughter…