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Years of hard work and enjoyment of his art brought fancy dancer Cal Arcand national attention beyond his dreams.

Arcand was introduced to Native dancing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, shortly after his dad Eugene Arcand became head of the city's Indian Metis Friendship Centre eight years ago.

"I was up in the rec room when I heard an announcement about learning powwow dancing," Arcand said. He signed up and started along a path he will follow "for as long as I am able to dance."

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Years of hard work and enjoyment of his art brought fancy dancer Cal Arcand national attention beyond his dreams.

Arcand was introduced to Native dancing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, shortly after his dad Eugene Arcand became head of the city's Indian Metis Friendship Centre eight years ago.

"I was up in the rec room when I heard an announcement about learning powwow dancing," Arcand said. He signed up and started along a path he will follow "for as long as I am able to dance."

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Years of hard work and enjoyment of his art brought fancy dancer Cal Arcand national attention beyond his dreams.

Arcand was introduced to Native dancing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, shortly after his dad Eugene Arcand became head of the city's Indian Metis Friendship Centre eight years ago.

"I was up in the rec room when I heard an announcement about learning powwow dancing," Arcand said. He signed up and started along a path he will follow "for as long as I am able to dance."

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Years of hard work and enjoyment of his art brought fancy dancer Cal Arcand national attention beyond his dreams.

Arcand was introduced to Native dancing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, shortly after his dad Eugene Arcand became head of the city's Indian Metis Friendship Centre eight years ago.

"I was up in the rec room when I heard an announcement about learning powwow dancing," Arcand said. He signed up and started along a path he will follow "for as long as I am able to dance."

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"Picasso," says Ojibwa artist Eddie Cobiness when asked who was the major influence on his painting.

"The way he used lines and colors and made them beyond what others had done."

Interestingly, Cobiness can't point to any one Native artist who influenced his work, and indeed his style is uniquely his own. While it doesn't resemble Picasso's works, either, the innovation and a great attention to balance and space are there.

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"Picasso," says Ojibwa artist Eddie Cobiness when asked who was the major influence on his painting.

"The way he used lines and colors and made them beyond what others had done."

Interestingly, Cobiness can't point to any one Native artist who influenced his work, and indeed his style is uniquely his own. While it doesn't resemble Picasso's works, either, the innovation and a great attention to balance and space are there.

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"Picasso," says Ojibwa artist Eddie Cobiness when asked who was the major influence on his painting.

"The way he used lines and colors and made them beyond what others had done."

Interestingly, Cobiness can't point to any one Native artist who influenced his work, and indeed his style is uniquely his own. While it doesn't resemble Picasso's works, either, the innovation and a great attention to balance and space are there.

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"Picasso," says Ojibwa artist Eddie Cobiness when asked who was the major influence on his painting.

"The way he used lines and colors and made them beyond what others had done."

Interestingly, Cobiness can't point to any one Native artist who influenced his work, and indeed his style is uniquely his own. While it doesn't resemble Picasso's works, either, the innovation and a great attention to balance and space are there.

Page 10 Anyone who reads a story or column written by Richard Wagamese knows he is a man who speaks from the heart. A long-time columnist for Windspeaker and other papers, he has dropped regular column-writing in papers like the Calgary Herald, concentrating instead on writing a novel. It's one of two books by him that are expected to be in book stores by next spring. "I had to decide what kind of a writer I wanted to be: A newspaper writer, a columnist, a short story writer or a novelist. I opted for fiction and it takes up all my energy," he explains.

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A grade 9 teacher wants his students to learn their lessons from a Native perspective.

Dale Trudgeon's charges are in the Integrated Occupational Program at Fort Saskatchewan Junior High School, just north-east of Edmonton. He wants to develop

his own curriculum, combining history, geography and economic development, which will examine the effects of those three areas of Canada's aboriginals.

"A new approach to an old curriculum," Trudgeon explains.