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On June 8, the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, launched its latest endeavor, Behind Closed Doors-Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Elders, staff, and countless interested parties gathered to meet and listen to those who, in offering their talents, contributed to the book's unique creation.

Jenna John of the Adams Lake Band spent six months last year listening to and transcribing taped interviews. The experience was daunting at times.

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On June 8, the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, launched its latest endeavor, Behind Closed Doors-Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Elders, staff, and countless interested parties gathered to meet and listen to those who, in offering their talents, contributed to the book's unique creation.

Jenna John of the Adams Lake Band spent six months last year listening to and transcribing taped interviews. The experience was daunting at times.

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The remote village of Kincolith in northern British Columbia is about to change. After decades of discussion and a lengthy environmental assessment, construction of a two-lane highway was approved by both the provincial and federal governments in late 1999, and the construction crew has recently begun preliminary clearing and scrubbing on the site.

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The remote village of Kincolith in northern British Columbia is about to change. After decades of discussion and a lengthy environmental assessment, construction of a two-lane highway was approved by both the provincial and federal governments in late 1999, and the construction crew has recently begun preliminary clearing and scrubbing on the site.

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First Nations' control over education was the subject at a two-day symposium in Calgary at the end of May.

Co-sponsored by the Assembly of First Nations and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the symposium featured think-tank discussions with more than 150 delegates from across the country. In the process, the delegates turned the co-sponsors into students eager to learn from people with first-hand experience.

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First Nations' control over education was the subject at a two-day symposium in Calgary at the end of May.

Co-sponsored by the Assembly of First Nations and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the symposium featured think-tank discussions with more than 150 delegates from across the country. In the process, the delegates turned the co-sponsors into students eager to learn from people with first-hand experience.

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Two brothers are giving the Keeshig-Soonias family of Red Deer a reason to be proud as the Canada Summer Games approaches.

Dallas Soonias, 17 will be a competitor in volleyball and Sarain Soonias, who turned 19 on June 19, is travelling as an alternate for the basketball team.

Dallas said that strikes him as "pretty cool." The young men are the only athletes in the family; their two sisters are in their 30s with families and don't play competitive sports at all.

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Two brothers are giving the Keeshig-Soonias family of Red Deer a reason to be proud as the Canada Summer Games approaches.

Dallas Soonias, 17 will be a competitor in volleyball and Sarain Soonias, who turned 19 on June 19, is travelling as an alternate for the basketball team.

Dallas said that strikes him as "pretty cool." The young men are the only athletes in the family; their two sisters are in their 30s with families and don't play competitive sports at all.

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The opening last month of a Beaver Bundle off the Blood reserve is the first time the tribe has permitted that.

"This is one of the first ceremonies to be done outside of our reservation," Rob First Charger, a member of the Blood band council, told an audience of dignitaries on the lawn of the Galt Museum and Archives in Lethbridge.

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The opening last month of a Beaver Bundle off the Blood reserve is the first time the tribe has permitted that.

"This is one of the first ceremonies to be done outside of our reservation," Rob First Charger, a member of the Blood band council, told an audience of dignitaries on the lawn of the Galt Museum and Archives in Lethbridge.