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REVIEW

From New Zealand comes Once Were Warriors, winner of more than 13

international awards, including Best Film, Best Actress, Most Popular

Film and the Ecumenical Award at the Montreal World Film Festival.

In New Zealand, this film has outgrossed every other, including

Jurassic Park and The Piano. It's also been used as an educational tool

by schools there, and the Auckland Police Force.

Once Were Warrior hits you like a mugging. In this tale of modern

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The latest in the "I'm so fascinated by Indians I just have to make a

film about them" movie opened on March 10. Dance Me Outside, directed

by Bruce MacDonald, pieces together several W.P. Kinsella short stories

(how Altmanesque) into quite a wonderfully shot and acted film detailing

the life of a couple of down home rez boys and girls. Politics and

accuracy aside, the film hits on many levels.

But more than anything, it's another example of Hollywood and its

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The latest in the "I'm so fascinated by Indians I just have to make a

film about them" movie opened on March 10. Dance Me Outside, directed

by Bruce MacDonald, pieces together several W.P. Kinsella short stories

(how Altmanesque) into quite a wonderfully shot and acted film detailing

the life of a couple of down home rez boys and girls. Politics and

accuracy aside, the film hits on many levels.

But more than anything, it's another example of Hollywood and its

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The latest in the "I'm so fascinated by Indians I just have to make a

film about them" movie opened on March 10. Dance Me Outside, directed

by Bruce MacDonald, pieces together several W.P. Kinsella short stories

(how Altmanesque) into quite a wonderfully shot and acted film detailing

the life of a couple of down home rez boys and girls. Politics and

accuracy aside, the film hits on many levels.

But more than anything, it's another example of Hollywood and its

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She is truly one of Canada's artistic darlings, a lady whose works have

influenced numerous other artists -- Native and non-Native alike. She

is a strong woman, one who believed in herself and her abilities and

managed to survive through times when artists really were a struggling

breed. I am speaking of Daphne Odjig-Beavon.

More commonly known to the masses as Odjig, she has been featured in a

number of books. Her art was used for the cover as well as interior of

Tales From the Smokehouse. In 1990, she was one of the select

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She is truly one of Canada's artistic darlings, a lady whose works have

influenced numerous other artists -- Native and non-Native alike. She

is a strong woman, one who believed in herself and her abilities and

managed to survive through times when artists really were a struggling

breed. I am speaking of Daphne Odjig-Beavon.

More commonly known to the masses as Odjig, she has been featured in a

number of books. Her art was used for the cover as well as interior of

Tales From the Smokehouse. In 1990, she was one of the select

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She is truly one of Canada's artistic darlings, a lady whose works have

influenced numerous other artists -- Native and non-Native alike. She

is a strong woman, one who believed in herself and her abilities and

managed to survive through times when artists really were a struggling

breed. I am speaking of Daphne Odjig-Beavon.

More commonly known to the masses as Odjig, she has been featured in a

number of books. Her art was used for the cover as well as interior of

Tales From the Smokehouse. In 1990, she was one of the select

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European Union Regulation 3254/91 comes into effect for Canada on Jan

1. 1996. Unless Canada bans leghold traps in all its provinces and

territories for 13 different species of fur bearers, AND adopts

internationally recognized "humane" trapping methods the European market

will be closed to most of our wild furs. As 90 per cent of our wild

furs are exported, and 75 per cent of those end up in Europe, that will

mean that our largest market will suddenly disappear. If we lose that

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European Union Regulation 3254/91 comes into effect for Canada on Jan

1. 1996. Unless Canada bans leghold traps in all its provinces and

territories for 13 different species of fur bearers, AND adopts

internationally recognized "humane" trapping methods the European market

will be closed to most of our wild furs. As 90 per cent of our wild

furs are exported, and 75 per cent of those end up in Europe, that will

mean that our largest market will suddenly disappear. If we lose that

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European Union Regulation 3254/91 comes into effect for Canada on Jan

1. 1996. Unless Canada bans leghold traps in all its provinces and

territories for 13 different species of fur bearers, AND adopts

internationally recognized "humane" trapping methods the European market

will be closed to most of our wild furs. As 90 per cent of our wild

furs are exported, and 75 per cent of those end up in Europe, that will

mean that our largest market will suddenly disappear. If we lose that