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On the eve of the first North American Indigenous Games, co-organizer Charles Woods sat in his downtown Edmonton office. He was shuffling through the pages of a speech he was to deliver during the next day's opening ceremonies at the University of Alberta Butterdome. It was hard for him to concentrate.

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On the eve of the first North American Indigenous Games, co-organizer Charles Woods sat in his downtown Edmonton office. He was shuffling through the pages of a speech he was to deliver during the next day's opening ceremonies at the University of Alberta Butterdome. It was hard for him to concentrate.

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Throughout history, aboriginal peoples around the world have felt the sting of contact with white people. Consequences have ranged from changes in their traditional ways of life to disease, death and even annihilation.

The National Film Board's Coppermine chronicles the devastating effects of contact with the outside world upon the lives of the Copper Inuit. Up until the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, few outsiders spent much time in the region.

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Throughout history, aboriginal peoples around the world have felt the sting of contact with white people. Consequences have ranged from changes in their traditional ways of life to disease, death and even annihilation.

The National Film Board's Coppermine chronicles the devastating effects of contact with the outside world upon the lives of the Copper Inuit. Up until the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, few outsiders spent much time in the region.

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Throughout history, aboriginal peoples around the world have felt the sting of contact with white people. Consequences have ranged from changes in their traditional ways of life to disease, death and even annihilation.

The National Film Board's Coppermine chronicles the devastating effects of contact with the outside world upon the lives of the Copper Inuit. Up until the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, few outsiders spent much time in the region.

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Throughout history, aboriginal peoples around the world have felt the sting of contact with white people. Consequences have ranged from changes in their traditional ways of life to disease, death and even annihilation.

The National Film Board's Coppermine chronicles the devastating effects of contact with the outside world upon the lives of the Copper Inuit. Up until the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, few outsiders spent much time in the region.

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An experimental program in Ontario is taking solvent abusers out to the bush and using traditional methods to heal them.

The four-week program relies on Anishinaabeg traditions to heal solvent abusers. It includes sweat lodges, drumming, crafts and singing and is conducted in Ojibwe with English translation.

Language, culture, values and heritage are crucial to a person's sense of identity, the Councillors believe.

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An experimental program in Ontario is taking solvent abusers out to the bush and using traditional methods to heal them.

The four-week program relies on Anishinaabeg traditions to heal solvent abusers. It includes sweat lodges, drumming, crafts and singing and is conducted in Ojibwe with English translation.

Language, culture, values and heritage are crucial to a person's sense of identity, the Councillors believe.

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An experimental program in Ontario is taking solvent abusers out to the bush and using traditional methods to heal them.

The four-week program relies on Anishinaabeg traditions to heal solvent abusers. It includes sweat lodges, drumming, crafts and singing and is conducted in Ojibwe with English translation.

Language, culture, values and heritage are crucial to a person's sense of identity, the Councillors believe.

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An experimental program in Ontario is taking solvent abusers out to the bush and using traditional methods to heal them.

The four-week program relies on Anishinaabeg traditions to heal solvent abusers. It includes sweat lodges, drumming, crafts and singing and is conducted in Ojibwe with English translation.

Language, culture, values and heritage are crucial to a person's sense of identity, the Councillors believe.