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"I always knew I would be an artist, and that I would seriously start doing it when I turned 40."

And that is precisely what silver carver Reg Gladstone of Saanichton, Vancouver Island has done.

That was 18 months ago. He has very recently participated in his successful first show at the Native Heritage Centre in Duncan, B.C.

A West Coast fisherman who works at his art about six months out of the year, Gladstone is "basically self-taught." He was partially influenced by his great-grandfather, one of the original silver carvers of Canada.

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"I always knew I would be an artist, and that I would seriously start doing it when I turned 40."

And that is precisely what silver carver Reg Gladstone of Saanichton, Vancouver Island has done.

That was 18 months ago. He has very recently participated in his successful first show at the Native Heritage Centre in Duncan, B.C.

A West Coast fisherman who works at his art about six months out of the year, Gladstone is "basically self-taught." He was partially influenced by his great-grandfather, one of the original silver carvers of Canada.

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"I always knew I would be an artist, and that I would seriously start doing it when I turned 40."

And that is precisely what silver carver Reg Gladstone of Saanichton, Vancouver Island has done.

That was 18 months ago. He has very recently participated in his successful first show at the Native Heritage Centre in Duncan, B.C.

A West Coast fisherman who works at his art about six months out of the year, Gladstone is "basically self-taught." He was partially influenced by his great-grandfather, one of the original silver carvers of Canada.

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"I always knew I would be an artist, and that I would seriously start doing it when I turned 40."

And that is precisely what silver carver Reg Gladstone of Saanichton, Vancouver Island has done.

That was 18 months ago. He has very recently participated in his successful first show at the Native Heritage Centre in Duncan, B.C.

A West Coast fisherman who works at his art about six months out of the year, Gladstone is "basically self-taught." He was partially influenced by his great-grandfather, one of the original silver carvers of Canada.

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"I always knew I would be an artist, and that I would seriously start doing it when I turned 40."

And that is precisely what silver carver Reg Gladstone of Saanichton, Vancouver Island has done.

That was 18 months ago. He has very recently participated in his successful first show at the Native Heritage Centre in Duncan, B.C.

A West Coast fisherman who works at his art about six months out of the year, Gladstone is "basically self-taught." He was partially influenced by his great-grandfather, one of the original silver carvers of Canada.

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Beading has long been a favorite pastime of Native women. But for Karen Many Chiefs, a wife and mother of two young girls, it's also become a way of earning a living while still leaving her the flexibility and time to look after her family.

Many Chiefs, a resident of the Peigan Reserve near Brocket in southern Alberta, has more than average skill at sewing the tiny plastic beads she uses. her work is neat, precise and strong, but she also has an obvious flare for color and design.

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Beading has long been a favorite pastime of Native women. But for Karen Many Chiefs, a wife and mother of two young girls, it's also become a way of earning a living while still leaving her the flexibility and time to look after her family.

Many Chiefs, a resident of the Peigan Reserve near Brocket in southern Alberta, has more than average skill at sewing the tiny plastic beads she uses. her work is neat, precise and strong, but she also has an obvious flare for color and design.

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Beading has long been a favorite pastime of Native women. But for Karen Many Chiefs, a wife and mother of two young girls, it's also become a way of earning a living while still leaving her the flexibility and time to look after her family.

Many Chiefs, a resident of the Peigan Reserve near Brocket in southern Alberta, has more than average skill at sewing the tiny plastic beads she uses. her work is neat, precise and strong, but she also has an obvious flare for color and design.

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Beading has long been a favorite pastime of Native women. But for Karen Many Chiefs, a wife and mother of two young girls, it's also become a way of earning a living while still leaving her the flexibility and time to look after her family.

Many Chiefs, a resident of the Peigan Reserve near Brocket in southern Alberta, has more than average skill at sewing the tiny plastic beads she uses. her work is neat, precise and strong, but she also has an obvious flare for color and design.

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Distinctive Native fashion designer D'arcy Moses featured his line of culturally inspired furs and clothing at a recently fashion show in Saskatoon. The show followed

a two-day conference on aboriginal newspapers and commercial development.

Moses, who is known both locally and internationally for his fashion designs, says his is a hectic lifestyle. Any goals he has reached have been a result of a difficult period in his life.