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Ontario Superior Court Judge Rose Toodick Boyko says she never had big dreams but has pursued interests that are meaningful to her, taking full advantage of opportunities she sees. This simple recipe for success has accompanied her since her earliest memories of life on a trapline on the Parsnip River at Findlay Forks, B.C.

Nevertheless, Boyko says she is "thrilled" to be recognized by her peers as this year's National Aboriginal Achievement Award winner in the Law and Justice category.

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David Gabriel Tuccaro is up to his elbows in business ventures, enjoying prosperity and success. Planning, staying committed through the difficulties, reading, taking courses to keep current, and hiring "the right people" are the reasons his dreams come true, he says.

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Sixteen-year-old 'Alika LaFontaine seems to have it all together for his age: a close and loving family, a solid record of academic achievement, a career goal, community and peer support for just about everything he does, and to top it all off, he is recognized this year as the Youth recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award.

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The former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations told a Sudbury gathering that Native people must come into their own identity and vision and stop fighting each other before the white culture will be attentive.

Ovide Mercredi, speaking at Laurentian University during its Native Awareness Week, opened his remarks by advising his audience that "we have to remind ourselves

we haven't been good at keeping up our conversation."

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The former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations told a Sudbury gathering that Native people must come into their own identity and vision and stop fighting each other before the white culture will be attentive.

Ovide Mercredi, speaking at Laurentian University during its Native Awareness Week, opened his remarks by advising his audience that "we have to remind ourselves

we haven't been good at keeping up our conversation."

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The former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations told a Sudbury gathering that Native people must come into their own identity and vision and stop fighting each other before the white culture will be attentive.

Ovide Mercredi, speaking at Laurentian University during its Native Awareness Week, opened his remarks by advising his audience that "we have to remind ourselves

we haven't been good at keeping up our conversation."

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Imagine picking up this newspaper just to try to fool your friends. Sure, you can scan through the pages looking at only the pictures, but the truth is, you can't read.

Other tasks involving reading that many people take for granted include filling out forms for a job application or school enrollment or government documents. You end up taking the forms home to get someone else to help you, someone you can trust your secret with. Your life is a sham.

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Imagine picking up this newspaper just to try to fool your friends. Sure, you can scan through the pages looking at only the pictures, but the truth is, you can't read.

Other tasks involving reading that many people take for granted include filling out forms for a job application or school enrollment or government documents. You end up taking the forms home to get someone else to help you, someone you can trust your secret with. Your life is a sham.

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Imagine picking up this newspaper just to try to fool your friends. Sure, you can scan through the pages looking at only the pictures, but the truth is, you can't read.

Other tasks involving reading that many people take for granted include filling out forms for a job application or school enrollment or government documents. You end up taking the forms home to get someone else to help you, someone you can trust your secret with. Your life is a sham.

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A multi-media CD-Rom project is intended to help Elders in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Ont. pass the ancient Ojibway language and culture on to their grandchildren.

Elders felt powerless as English replaced Ojibway as the first language of local children over the past 20 years, said Roger Fobister, director of education for the Grassy Narrows Education Authority. With the new CD-Rom installed on the Sakatcheway-Anishinabe school computer network, Elders are in position to speak daily to 250 students with the click of a mouse on a computer icon.