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Smoking meat has long been a tradition for the Metis and in particular the Bennett family.

"My mother was an expert at it," said Art Yancey Bennett.

That's why the smoked meat business was an obvious choice for Bennett when he found himself without a job when the mines at Elliott Lake in northern Ontario closed a decade ago.

Armed with his severance pay and his life savings, Bennett bought a building and began to renovate it to turn it into a facility where he could apply the skills he had learned from his mother.

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No one lives in Moose River Crossing any more. The last person living there moved away in 1995. But every May long weekend, former residents and their children and grandchildren travel back to Moose River Crossing.

"We call it the pilgrimage," said former Moose River Crossing resident William Iserhoff. "We go back there every spring, that long weekend in May, and we camp there. We bring our tents and fishing rods. We hunt and fish and clean the burial ground."

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No one lives in Moose River Crossing any more. The last person living there moved away in 1995. But every May long weekend, former residents and their children and grandchildren travel back to Moose River Crossing.

"We call it the pilgrimage," said former Moose River Crossing resident William Iserhoff. "We go back there every spring, that long weekend in May, and we camp there. We bring our tents and fishing rods. We hunt and fish and clean the burial ground."

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The Great Peace--The Gathering of Good Minds CD-ROM is a unique and absorbing multimedia vehicle programmed to take you deep into Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois) territory. Aboriginal people designed it to teach authentic Iroquois values, culture and history from the time of pre-European contact up to the present. The central theme and foundation of this interactive learning tool is The Great Law of Peace, the philosophy upon which the Iroquois confederacy was built.

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Celebration of the anniversary of the signing of the Great Peace Treaty of Montreal is a year-long event that began in September 2000 and will have its high point Aug. 4 this year in Old Montreal.

On that date in 1701, Louis-Hector de Calliere, on behalf of the French, signed a treaty with 39 First Nations chiefs that ended a century of war between the five Iroquois nations and the French and other tribes who were allied with the French.

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Celebration of the anniversary of the signing of the Great Peace Treaty of Montreal is a year-long event that began in September 2000 and will have its high point Aug. 4 this year in Old Montreal.

On that date in 1701, Louis-Hector de Calliere, on behalf of the French, signed a treaty with 39 First Nations chiefs that ended a century of war between the five Iroquois nations and the French and other tribes who were allied with the French.

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Some of the best in Aboriginal entrepreneurship from across the country were recognized on March 4 during the fourth annual Mishtapew Awards of Excellence gala held at Montreal's Palais des Congres.

Awards were handed out in 15 categories, with companies from outside Quebec and the Northwest Territories taking home Mishtapew Awards for the first time.

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Some of the best in Aboriginal entrepreneurship from across the country were recognized on March 4 during the fourth annual Mishtapew Awards of Excellence gala held at Montreal's Palais des Congres.

Awards were handed out in 15 categories, with companies from outside Quebec and the Northwest Territories taking home Mishtapew Awards for the first time.

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The nomadic 18-year-old Jon Mirasty has finally come home to Meadow Lake, for a while.

Last hockey season he played in the southern part of the province for the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Kindersley Klippers. Last fall, he went to the Prince Albert Raiders in the Western Hockey League, and recently was traded to the Washington State-based Tri-City Americans.

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The nomadic 18-year-old Jon Mirasty has finally come home to Meadow Lake, for a while.

Last hockey season he played in the southern part of the province for the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Kindersley Klippers. Last fall, he went to the Prince Albert Raiders in the Western Hockey League, and recently was traded to the Washington State-based Tri-City Americans.