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Tsuu Tina Nation bronc rider and pro-rodeo bullfighter Richard Bish is appreciating life more than ever after a near brush with death last November.

The popular 25-year-old Sarcee started having severe headaches after the IRCA Finals Rodeo in Calgary last October. Bish was eventually diagnosed with viral meningitis.

But hospital treatment and therapy didn't stop the headaches. Bish lost his balance, and his right eye slowly swelled shut. Extensive tests revealed a shocking diagnosis - Bish was suffering from a brain aneurysm.

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Tsuu Tina Nation bronc rider and pro-rodeo bullfighter Richard Bish is appreciating life more than ever after a near brush with death last November.

The popular 25-year-old Sarcee started having severe headaches after the IRCA Finals Rodeo in Calgary last October. Bish was eventually diagnosed with viral meningitis.

But hospital treatment and therapy didn't stop the headaches. Bish lost his balance, and his right eye slowly swelled shut. Extensive tests revealed a shocking diagnosis - Bish was suffering from a brain aneurysm.

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Tsuu Tina Nation bronc rider and pro-rodeo bullfighter Richard Bish is appreciating life more than ever after a near brush with death last November.

The popular 25-year-old Sarcee started having severe headaches after the IRCA Finals Rodeo in Calgary last October. Bish was eventually diagnosed with viral meningitis.

But hospital treatment and therapy didn't stop the headaches. Bish lost his balance, and his right eye slowly swelled shut. Extensive tests revealed a shocking diagnosis - Bish was suffering from a brain aneurysm.

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Tsuu Tina Nation bronc rider and pro-rodeo bullfighter Richard Bish is appreciating life more than ever after a near brush with death last November.

The popular 25-year-old Sarcee started having severe headaches after the IRCA Finals Rodeo in Calgary last October. Bish was eventually diagnosed with viral meningitis.

But hospital treatment and therapy didn't stop the headaches. Bish lost his balance, and his right eye slowly swelled shut. Extensive tests revealed a shocking diagnosis - Bish was suffering from a brain aneurysm.

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At age 18, Horace Ratt is already an experienced athlete. The young man from the Peter Ballantyne Band in Pelican Narrows, 275 kilometres northeast of this city, has been competing in shot put, discus and javelin since he was in Grade 4. He has completed annually in city-wide track meets as well as at the Prince Albert Indian Student Education Centre, where he resides during the school term.

Ratt has chosen to concentrate on shot and discus for the North American Indigenous Games which will be held here July 18-25.

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At age 18, Horace Ratt is already an experienced athlete. The young man from the Peter Ballantyne Band in Pelican Narrows, 275 kilometres northeast of this city, has been competing in shot put, discus and javelin since he was in Grade 4. He has completed annually in city-wide track meets as well as at the Prince Albert Indian Student Education Centre, where he resides during the school term.

Ratt has chosen to concentrate on shot and discus for the North American Indigenous Games which will be held here July 18-25.

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At age 18, Horace Ratt is already an experienced athlete. The young man from the Peter Ballantyne Band in Pelican Narrows, 275 kilometres northeast of this city, has been competing in shot put, discus and javelin since he was in Grade 4. He has completed annually in city-wide track meets as well as at the Prince Albert Indian Student Education Centre, where he resides during the school term.

Ratt has chosen to concentrate on shot and discus for the North American Indigenous Games which will be held here July 18-25.

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At age 18, Horace Ratt is already an experienced athlete. The young man from the Peter Ballantyne Band in Pelican Narrows, 275 kilometres northeast of this city, has been competing in shot put, discus and javelin since he was in Grade 4. He has completed annually in city-wide track meets as well as at the Prince Albert Indian Student Education Centre, where he resides during the school term.

Ratt has chosen to concentrate on shot and discus for the North American Indigenous Games which will be held here July 18-25.

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After a three year delay, a program to heal the wounds left by the Oka Crisis is finally getting off the ground at Kanesatake.

Breaking all Barriers, a $1.5-million project funded jointly by the federal government department of Indian Affairs and Health and Welfare, is slated to begin this month and run three years.

The program's goals are to restore a sense of community, rebuild bonds between families and clans, and establish better relations between natives and non-natives.

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After a three year delay, a program to heal the wounds left by the Oka Crisis is finally getting off the ground at Kanesatake.

Breaking all Barriers, a $1.5-million project funded jointly by the federal government department of Indian Affairs and Health and Welfare, is slated to begin this month and run three years.

The program's goals are to restore a sense of community, rebuild bonds between families and clans, and establish better relations between natives and non-natives.