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The Toronto-based rock group Syren is using the Lubicon land rights struggle as the basis for a video now appearing on Canadian television.

"The Lubicon case is the most blatant example of human rights violations in the country and so little is known about it," said Syren singer Lea Harper in an interview from Toronto.

Let Them Live, which is playing on the MuchMusic cable network, was directed by Ed Bianchi, a Toronto film-maker and Lubicon activist. It features scenes from Bianchi's hour-long Lubicon documentary of the same name.

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The Toronto-based rock group Syren is using the Lubicon land rights struggle as the basis for a video now appearing on Canadian television.

"The Lubicon case is the most blatant example of human rights violations in the country and so little is known about it," said Syren singer Lea Harper in an interview from Toronto.

Let Them Live, which is playing on the MuchMusic cable network, was directed by Ed Bianchi, a Toronto film-maker and Lubicon activist. It features scenes from Bianchi's hour-long Lubicon documentary of the same name.

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I Have Spoken

I think that probably everyone in our Cree Nations has heard about a fellow called Wisakechak. This fellow was known in many places. He would have another name when he would appear at a distant nation.

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I Have Spoken

I think that probably everyone in our Cree Nations has heard about a fellow called Wisakechak. This fellow was known in many places. He would have another name when he would appear at a distant nation.

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Students sat patiently in an Edmonton conference hall foyer both anticipating and dreading the next round of workshops aimed at making them more productive adults.

They all took the waiting in stride.

"I know it's important -- this conference and what they're trying to do," confided 13-year-old Heart Lake School seventh-grader Curtis Cardinal. "But when I go out in the real world, I'm going to play ball -- basketball or baseball, or something."

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Students sat patiently in an Edmonton conference hall foyer both anticipating and dreading the next round of workshops aimed at making them more productive adults.

They all took the waiting in stride.

"I know it's important -- this conference and what they're trying to do," confided 13-year-old Heart Lake School seventh-grader Curtis Cardinal. "But when I go out in the real world, I'm going to play ball -- basketball or baseball, or something."

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Mother tongue is a play that is both collaborative theatre and performance art.

It explores the unique and person stories of two women and their struggle with cultural identity.

The richness of story-telling is used as a vehicle to explore the parallels and contrasts between the Metis and Scots cultures: the legacy of the two artists.

It explores their struggle between childhood traditions versus society and its environment, and the fight towards reclaiming personal identity as grown women within their own cultures.

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Mother tongue is a play that is both collaborative theatre and performance art.

It explores the unique and person stories of two women and their struggle with cultural identity.

The richness of story-telling is used as a vehicle to explore the parallels and contrasts between the Metis and Scots cultures: the legacy of the two artists.

It explores their struggle between childhood traditions versus society and its environment, and the fight towards reclaiming personal identity as grown women within their own cultures.

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When the New Democrats put out the call for more women, more Natives and more visible minority candidates in the next federal election, Colleen Glenn thought they were calling her.

And they were. On April 23 23, the Metis woman was nominated as the ND candidate for the federal riding of Edmonton Southwest.

"The party really wants people like me - Native, a woman, a single parent - people who are not being heard from," Glenn said in an interview following her uncontested nomination.

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It was a very different Fort McKay when Victoria McDonald was born on August 4, 1915.

"There was no whiteman, nothing There were no stores in McKay, only in McMurray. There was a Hudson Bay Store in McMurray and every summer me and

my family went by boat down the Athabasca to McMurray to shop at the Hudson Bay.

It would take six hours to get there. We stayed in McMurray for the whole summer," she said.