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Come, let us tell you a Story

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The Alberta Provincial Museum is telling the story of 500 generations of Aboriginal people in the province, with the opening of the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture.

With 900 sq. m of space, more than 3,000 artifacts and an 11,000 year frame of reference, the new, permanent exhibit at the Edmonton museum is an excellent learning tool for Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people alike.

Come, let us tell you a Story

Page 20

The Alberta Provincial Museum is telling the story of 500 generations of Aboriginal people in the province, with the opening of the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture.

With 900 sq. m of space, more than 3,000 artifacts and an 11,000 year frame of reference, the new, permanent exhibit at the Edmonton museum is an excellent learning tool for Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people alike.

Powerful medcine from the guardian of the herds

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It came from the sky, from the hand of the great Manitou himself. A gift, a sign and very powerful medicine for the original inhabitants of the Plains. No one knows for sure exactly when the great meteorite landed, but it must have coincided with the early arrival of humans on this continent.

The sacred Manitou Stone, Pi-wa-pisk-oo, ironstone in Cree, stood like a sentinel where it landed on the side of a hill, it's fate closely tied to the people who revered it.

Powerful medcine from the guardian of the herds

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It came from the sky, from the hand of the great Manitou himself. A gift, a sign and very powerful medicine for the original inhabitants of the Plains. No one knows for sure exactly when the great meteorite landed, but it must have coincided with the early arrival of humans on this continent.

The sacred Manitou Stone, Pi-wa-pisk-oo, ironstone in Cree, stood like a sentinel where it landed on the side of a hill, it's fate closely tied to the people who revered it.

Powerful medcine from the guardian of the herds

Page 2

It came from the sky, from the hand of the great Manitou himself. A gift, a sign and very powerful medicine for the original inhabitants of the Plains. No one knows for sure exactly when the great meteorite landed, but it must have coincided with the early arrival of humans on this continent.

The sacred Manitou Stone, Pi-wa-pisk-oo, ironstone in Cree, stood like a sentinel where it landed on the side of a hill, it's fate closely tied to the people who revered it.

Keeping the peace in Bosnia

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Mike Poitras will be a long way from home this Christmas. Then again, home is wherever the Canadian Armed Forces has seen fit to send him throughout his 17-year career. A master corporal in the Lord Strathcona's Light Horse, an armored regiment, Poitras is currently serving as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, in the former Yugoslavia. This is his second peacekeeping tour of duty in Bosnia, and his third overall.

Keeping the peace in Bosnia

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Mike Poitras will be a long way from home this Christmas. Then again, home is wherever the Canadian Armed Forces has seen fit to send him throughout his 17-year career. A master corporal in the Lord Strathcona's Light Horse, an armored regiment, Poitras is currently serving as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, in the former Yugoslavia. This is his second peacekeeping tour of duty in Bosnia, and his third overall.

Keeping the peace in Bosnia

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Mike Poitras will be a long way from home this Christmas. Then again, home is wherever the Canadian Armed Forces has seen fit to send him throughout his 17-year career. A master corporal in the Lord Strathcona's Light Horse, an armored regiment, Poitras is currently serving as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, in the former Yugoslavia. This is his second peacekeeping tour of duty in Bosnia, and his third overall.