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Margaret Roper learned about the foster-care system the hard way. She was sent to a white foster family at the age of 14 and promptly ran away.

"Their values -- everything -- were so alien to me," she says. "I thought, 'What am I doing here? I don't fit here. They only got me because they needed someone to clean the house."

Roper is now a social worker who wants to make the system better. She is involved in a program offered by the Calgary Indian Friendship Centre

that is recruiting and training Native families to become foster families.

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Margaret Roper learned about the foster-care system the hard way. She was sent to a white foster family at the age of 14 and promptly ran away.

"Their values -- everything -- were so alien to me," she says. "I thought, 'What am I doing here? I don't fit here. They only got me because they needed someone to clean the house."

Roper is now a social worker who wants to make the system better. She is involved in a program offered by the Calgary Indian Friendship Centre

that is recruiting and training Native families to become foster families.

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Better housing, accessibility and employment are the key goals for the new Blood Tribe Handicapped-Disabled Services and Society, says Blair First Rider, co-ordinator of the program.

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Better housing, accessibility and employment are the key goals for the new Blood Tribe Handicapped-Disabled Services and Society, says Blair First Rider, co-ordinator of the program.

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Better housing, accessibility and employment are the key goals for the new Blood Tribe Handicapped-Disabled Services and Society, says Blair First Rider, co-ordinator of the program.

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Crayons and felt pens at the small playschool at the Awa-Taan Native Women's Shelter in Calgary are for healing as well as fun.

Regularly, Karen English, the shelter's Native child and youth support worker, gathers children together in a circle to share their pictures.

"They like to express themselves in drawings," says English. And what they express, such as daddy hitting mommy, she adds, is often something they want to get over.

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Crayons and felt pens at the small playschool at the Awa-Taan Native Women's Shelter in Calgary are for healing as well as fun.

Regularly, Karen English, the shelter's Native child and youth support worker, gathers children together in a circle to share their pictures.

"They like to express themselves in drawings," says English. And what they express, such as daddy hitting mommy, she adds, is often something they want to get over.

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Crayons and felt pens at the small playschool at the Awa-Taan Native Women's Shelter in Calgary are for healing as well as fun.

Regularly, Karen English, the shelter's Native child and youth support worker, gathers children together in a circle to share their pictures.

"They like to express themselves in drawings," says English. And what they express, such as daddy hitting mommy, she adds, is often something they want to get over.

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In 1995 the Native Communications Program at Grant MacEwan Community College will mark its 20th graduating class.

Education is about people -- making a difference in the lives of individuals, their communities and ultimately in the world. The Native Communications Program has played a significant role in the lives of many Aboriginal people -- in career and cultural education.

In 1968, The Alberta Native Communication Society produced Canada's first Aboriginal weekly newspaper, The Native People.

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In 1995 the Native Communications Program at Grant MacEwan Community College will mark its 20th graduating class.

Education is about people -- making a difference in the lives of individuals, their communities and ultimately in the world. The Native Communications Program has played a significant role in the lives of many Aboriginal people -- in career and cultural education.

In 1968, The Alberta Native Communication Society produced Canada's first Aboriginal weekly newspaper, The Native People.