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Artist practises ancient art form

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Dianna Wabie may practise an obscure Native art form, but she doesn't have any trouble finding materials.

That's because her husband is a commercial fisherman.

Wabie creates likenesses of wild flowers using Whitefish scales and porcupine quills. The school teacher and cattle farmer from Lac La Biche, Alta. bases her work on an ancient art form used by the Woodland tribes to decorate clothing.

Artist practises ancient art form

Page 14

Dianna Wabie may practise an obscure Native art form, but she doesn't have any trouble finding materials.

That's because her husband is a commercial fisherman.

Wabie creates likenesses of wild flowers using Whitefish scales and porcupine quills. The school teacher and cattle farmer from Lac La Biche, Alta. bases her work on an ancient art form used by the Woodland tribes to decorate clothing.

Artist practises ancient art form

Page 14

Dianna Wabie may practise an obscure Native art form, but she doesn't have any trouble finding materials.

That's because her husband is a commercial fisherman.

Wabie creates likenesses of wild flowers using Whitefish scales and porcupine quills. The school teacher and cattle farmer from Lac La Biche, Alta. bases her work on an ancient art form used by the Woodland tribes to decorate clothing.

Artist practises ancient art form

Page 14

Dianna Wabie may practise an obscure Native art form, but she doesn't have any trouble finding materials.

That's because her husband is a commercial fisherman.

Wabie creates likenesses of wild flowers using Whitefish scales and porcupine quills. The school teacher and cattle farmer from Lac La Biche, Alta. bases her work on an ancient art form used by the Woodland tribes to decorate clothing.

Inuit women want to give birth at home

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A large number of Inuit of the Eastern Arctic born since the mid-1960s have Manitoba birth certificates, a situation Inuit women want to see changed.

Speaking before the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, representatives of Pauktuutit (The Inuit Women's Association) called for changes in mid-wifery practices in the far North.

"To us, healthy children are born into their families and their communities. They are not born thousands of miles from home to an unhappy frightened mother," Pauktuutit Vice-President Martha Greig said.

Inuit women want to give birth at home

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A large number of Inuit of the Eastern Arctic born since the mid-1960s have Manitoba birth certificates, a situation Inuit women want to see changed.

Speaking before the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, representatives of Pauktuutit (The Inuit Women's Association) called for changes in mid-wifery practices in the far North.

"To us, healthy children are born into their families and their communities. They are not born thousands of miles from home to an unhappy frightened mother," Pauktuutit Vice-President Martha Greig said.

Inuit women want to give birth at home

Page 10

A large number of Inuit of the Eastern Arctic born since the mid-1960s have Manitoba birth certificates, a situation Inuit women want to see changed.

Speaking before the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, representatives of Pauktuutit (The Inuit Women's Association) called for changes in mid-wifery practices in the far North.

"To us, healthy children are born into their families and their communities. They are not born thousands of miles from home to an unhappy frightened mother," Pauktuutit Vice-President Martha Greig said.