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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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North of 60 star Jimmy Herman had a chance to walk through the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture recently and he liked what he saw.
"There's a lot of information here and you can find out things that you didn't remember or only heard about. It's like a library," said the 58-year-old actor.
Despite the magnitude of the exhibit--a 900 sq. m display of 11,000…
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Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart has agreed to convene a meeting which will see federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for Aboriginal affairs sit down with the leaders of the five national Aboriginal organizations. The meeting will deal with ways to rework how governments deal with First Nations.
That commitment came in response to a communiqué…
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Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart has agreed to convene a meeting which will see federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for Aboriginal affairs sit down with the leaders of the five national Aboriginal organizations. The meeting will deal with ways to rework how governments deal with First Nations.
That commitment came in response to a communiqué…
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Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart has agreed to convene a meeting which will see federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for Aboriginal affairs sit down with the leaders of the five national Aboriginal organizations. The meeting will deal with ways to rework how governments deal with First Nations.
That commitment came in response to a communiqué…
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The Alberta Provincial Museum is telling the story of 500 generations of Aboriginal people in the province, with the opening of the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture.
With 900 sq. m of space, more than 3,000 artifacts and an 11,000 year frame of reference, the new, permanent exhibit at the Edmonton museum is an excellent learning tool for Aboriginal people and non-…
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The Alberta Provincial Museum is telling the story of 500 generations of Aboriginal people in the province, with the opening of the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture.
With 900 sq. m of space, more than 3,000 artifacts and an 11,000 year frame of reference, the new, permanent exhibit at the Edmonton museum is an excellent learning tool for Aboriginal people and non-…
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The Alberta Provincial Museum is telling the story of 500 generations of Aboriginal people in the province, with the opening of the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture.
With 900 sq. m of space, more than 3,000 artifacts and an 11,000 year frame of reference, the new, permanent exhibit at the Edmonton museum is an excellent learning tool for Aboriginal people and non-…
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It came from the sky, from the hand of the great Manitou himself. A gift, a sign and very powerful medicine for the original inhabitants of the Plains. No one knows for sure exactly when the great meteorite landed, but it must have coincided with the early arrival of humans on this continent.
The sacred Manitou Stone, Pi-wa-pisk-oo, ironstone in Cree, stood like a sentinel…
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It came from the sky, from the hand of the great Manitou himself. A gift, a sign and very powerful medicine for the original inhabitants of the Plains. No one knows for sure exactly when the great meteorite landed, but it must have coincided with the early arrival of humans on this continent.
The sacred Manitou Stone, Pi-wa-pisk-oo, ironstone in Cree, stood like a sentinel…
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It came from the sky, from the hand of the great Manitou himself. A gift, a sign and very powerful medicine for the original inhabitants of the Plains. No one knows for sure exactly when the great meteorite landed, but it must have coincided with the early arrival of humans on this continent.
The sacred Manitou Stone, Pi-wa-pisk-oo, ironstone in Cree, stood like a sentinel…
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Mike Poitras will be a long way from home this Christmas. Then again, home is wherever the Canadian Armed Forces has seen fit to send him throughout his 17-year career. A master corporal in the Lord Strathcona's Light Horse, an armored regiment, Poitras is currently serving as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, in the former Yugoslavia. This is his second peacekeeping tour of duty in…
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Mike Poitras will be a long way from home this Christmas. Then again, home is wherever the Canadian Armed Forces has seen fit to send him throughout his 17-year career. A master corporal in the Lord Strathcona's Light Horse, an armored regiment, Poitras is currently serving as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, in the former Yugoslavia. This is his second peacekeeping tour of duty in…
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Mike Poitras will be a long way from home this Christmas. Then again, home is wherever the Canadian Armed Forces has seen fit to send him throughout his 17-year career. A master corporal in the Lord Strathcona's Light Horse, an armored regiment, Poitras is currently serving as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, in the former Yugoslavia. This is his second peacekeeping tour of duty in…
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A healing movement that has roots in British Columbia has successfully taken hold in Hollow Water, Man. and is reaching to other parts of the country.
Valdie Seymour and Berma Bushie are two of the founders of what is called community holistic circle healing in Hollow Water, a First Nation of 700 people on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg.
It's a process that…
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A healing movement that has roots in British Columbia has successfully taken hold in Hollow Water, Man. and is reaching to other parts of the country.
Valdie Seymour and Berma Bushie are two of the founders of what is called community holistic circle healing in Hollow Water, a First Nation of 700 people on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg.
It's a process that…