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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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Get ready to rumble boxing fans. Willard Lewis has returned to his home province after a year-and-a-half absence.
From now on he'll fight under the name Red Thunder Rock, a name he said the grandfathers (spirits) gave him in a dream during a sweat lodge ceremony in Fort McMurray in 1996. He has that very determined look about him. The one that spells, "no more foolin' around…
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Get ready to rumble boxing fans. Willard Lewis has returned to his home province after a year-and-a-half absence.
From now on he'll fight under the name Red Thunder Rock, a name he said the grandfathers (spirits) gave him in a dream during a sweat lodge ceremony in Fort McMurray in 1996. He has that very determined look about him. The one that spells, "no more foolin' around…
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Get ready to rumble boxing fans. Willard Lewis has returned to his home province after a year-and-a-half absence.
From now on he'll fight under the name Red Thunder Rock, a name he said the grandfathers (spirits) gave him in a dream during a sweat lodge ceremony in Fort McMurray in 1996. He has that very determined look about him. The one that spells, "no more foolin' around…
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Comments from callers to a Regina radio station seemed to represent the more repugnant racial attitudes of Saskatchewan residents when slurs against Indians were aired during a live call-in show.
The show was broadcast Wednesday, Feb. 25, one day after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations released the findings of a recent poll which revealed that an "overwhelming…
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Comments from callers to a Regina radio station seemed to represent the more repugnant racial attitudes of Saskatchewan residents when slurs against Indians were aired during a live call-in show.
The show was broadcast Wednesday, Feb. 25, one day after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations released the findings of a recent poll which revealed that an "overwhelming…
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Comments from callers to a Regina radio station seemed to represent the more repugnant racial attitudes of Saskatchewan residents when slurs against Indians were aired during a live call-in show.
The show was broadcast Wednesday, Feb. 25, one day after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations released the findings of a recent poll which revealed that an "overwhelming…
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Leaders of national Aboriginal organizations are looking carefully at the statements that were issued during the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meeting from March 9 to 11 in Edmonton. There's more than a bit of suspicion that the promised changes in AFN behavior are linked to new funding from the federal government that was announced when Indian Affairs Minister…
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Leaders of national Aboriginal organizations are looking carefully at the statements that were issued during the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meeting from March 9 to 11 in Edmonton. There's more than a bit of suspicion that the promised changes in AFN behavior are linked to new funding from the federal government that was announced when Indian Affairs Minister…
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Leaders of national Aboriginal organizations are looking carefully at the statements that were issued during the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meeting from March 9 to 11 in Edmonton. There's more than a bit of suspicion that the promised changes in AFN behavior are linked to new funding from the federal government that was announced when Indian Affairs Minister…
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An RCMP constable shot and killed a Tsuu T'ina mother and her nine-year-old son in the late evening of March 22 on the Tsuu T'ina Nation and left a community in shock and grief.
A Tsuu T'ina Family and Social Services worker, accompanied by a band police officer, was attempting to seize Connie Jacobs' children and, when she resisted, the worker called the Okotoks RCMP for…
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An RCMP constable shot and killed a Tsuu T'ina mother and her nine-year-old son in the late evening of March 22 on the Tsuu T'ina Nation and left a community in shock and grief.
A Tsuu T'ina Family and Social Services worker, accompanied by a band police officer, was attempting to seize Connie Jacobs' children and, when she resisted, the worker called the Okotoks RCMP for…
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An RCMP constable shot and killed a Tsuu T'ina mother and her nine-year-old son in the late evening of March 22 on the Tsuu T'ina Nation and left a community in shock and grief.
A Tsuu T'ina Family and Social Services worker, accompanied by a band police officer, was attempting to seize Connie Jacobs' children and, when she resisted, the worker called the Okotoks RCMP for…
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A lot of ideas were swirling around the Windspeaker newsroom shortly after we received the news that a mother and her child had been shot dead by an RCMP officer during a botched child seizure on the Tsuu T'ina First Nation on March 22.
We've been taking a very close look at the history of the interplay between Aboriginal peoples and Canadian authorities recently. It seems…
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A lot of ideas were swirling around the Windspeaker newsroom shortly after we received the news that a mother and her child had been shot dead by an RCMP officer during a botched child seizure on the Tsuu T'ina First Nation on March 22.
We've been taking a very close look at the history of the interplay between Aboriginal peoples and Canadian authorities recently. It seems…
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A lot of ideas were swirling around the Windspeaker newsroom shortly after we received the news that a mother and her child had been shot dead by an RCMP officer during a botched child seizure on the Tsuu T'ina First Nation on March 22.
We've been taking a very close look at the history of the interplay between Aboriginal peoples and Canadian authorities recently. It seems…