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A little gray at the temples and a few laugh lines hint that the tall, powerful man might be a little older than first guessed at.

Moses Bignell, 52, also strikes one immediately as a man who earned that touch

of gray honestly, through rough, hard work.

Bignell, the trapper, collector, actor, designer, mechanic, band councillor and community activist is a busy man indeed, but his real passion is art.

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A little gray at the temples and a few laugh lines hint that the tall, powerful man might be a little older than first guessed at.

Moses Bignell, 52, also strikes one immediately as a man who earned that touch

of gray honestly, through rough, hard work.

Bignell, the trapper, collector, actor, designer, mechanic, band councillor and community activist is a busy man indeed, but his real passion is art.

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The winter of 1980 heralded the beginning of a personal journey for Angelique Levac, one of three remaining birch bark biting artists in Canada.

Birch bark biting is an ancient art form commonly practised by northern woodland women.

Levac's odyssey started when she discovered a magazine article on Angelique Merasty, an elderly woman living in Beaver Lake, Saskatchewan, who practised birch bark biting.

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The winter of 1980 heralded the beginning of a personal journey for Angelique Levac, one of three remaining birch bark biting artists in Canada.

Birch bark biting is an ancient art form commonly practised by northern woodland women.

Levac's odyssey started when she discovered a magazine article on Angelique Merasty, an elderly woman living in Beaver Lake, Saskatchewan, who practised birch bark biting.

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The winter of 1980 heralded the beginning of a personal journey for Angelique Levac, one of three remaining birch bark biting artists in Canada.

Birch bark biting is an ancient art form commonly practised by northern woodland women.

Levac's odyssey started when she discovered a magazine article on Angelique Merasty, an elderly woman living in Beaver Lake, Saskatchewan, who practised birch bark biting.

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The winter of 1980 heralded the beginning of a personal journey for Angelique Levac, one of three remaining birch bark biting artists in Canada.

Birch bark biting is an ancient art form commonly practised by northern woodland women.

Levac's odyssey started when she discovered a magazine article on Angelique Merasty, an elderly woman living in Beaver Lake, Saskatchewan, who practised birch bark biting.

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The chief hands the pipe to a warrior and then folds his arms. He nods his head and the circle of bare-chested braves in moccasins, clanging beads and buckskin pants begin to chant and dance around a campfire. They don't seem to notice the crowd of 150 or so staring at them.

The Indians are extremely serious as they hop on their left foot and then their right - now shrieking up at the sky. A second look reveals blue eyes and blond strands of hair sticking out beneath the black pony tails. The scene is in Germany, not North America.

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The Australian high court recently rejected the notion that indigenous people did not own the land on which they had traditionally lived.

Called the Mabo land decision, it has provided a new basis for relations between the indigenous and other Australia, said Prime Minister Paul Keating.

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The Australian high court recently rejected the notion that indigenous people did not own the land on which they had traditionally lived.

Called the Mabo land decision, it has provided a new basis for relations between the indigenous and other Australia, said Prime Minister Paul Keating.

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The Australian high court recently rejected the notion that indigenous people did not own the land on which they had traditionally lived.

Called the Mabo land decision, it has provided a new basis for relations between the indigenous and other Australia, said Prime Minister Paul Keating.