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Fifteen years old! It seems like just yesterday that we were submitting our proposal to establish the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (AMMSA) and its fledgling newspaper - later to be namedWindspeaker.

AMMSA was fortunate to have a board of directors and management team that had the foresight to plan for the future and begin a journey towards self sufficiency and financial independence. We were half way there when we received word that all funding for Aboriginal newspapers would end and that we had seven weeks to become self sufficient.

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Windspeaker asked its readers what they thought of the federal response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples report, and this is what they told us:

Windspeaker asked its readers what they thought of the federal response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples report, and this is what they told us:

Windspeaker asked its readers what they thought of the federal response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples report, and this is what they told us:

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It's a tale of two tribes, closely related, separated by time and distance . . . each with different story to tell and a radically different health profile to share with the rest of the world.

The Mexican Pima who inhabit in the mountainous region of the Sierra Madre, are Native farmers, living in traditional adobe rancherias, who cultivate corn, beans and potatoes, raise a few chickens and put in about 24 hours a week in hard physical labor on their land.

They eat about 2,200 calories a day, are lean, fit and healthy and have a normal rate of diabetes.

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It's a tale of two tribes, closely related, separated by time and distance . . . each with different story to tell and a radically different health profile to share with the rest of the world.

The Mexican Pima who inhabit in the mountainous region of the Sierra Madre, are Native farmers, living in traditional adobe rancherias, who cultivate corn, beans and potatoes, raise a few chickens and put in about 24 hours a week in hard physical labor on their land.

They eat about 2,200 calories a day, are lean, fit and healthy and have a normal rate of diabetes.

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It's a tale of two tribes, closely related, separated by time and distance . . . each with different story to tell and a radically different health profile to share with the rest of the world.

The Mexican Pima who inhabit in the mountainous region of the Sierra Madre, are Native farmers, living in traditional adobe rancherias, who cultivate corn, beans and potatoes, raise a few chickens and put in about 24 hours a week in hard physical labor on their land.

They eat about 2,200 calories a day, are lean, fit and healthy and have a normal rate of diabetes.