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REVIEW

A frontier town met the final frontier when Edmonton played host to the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards on March 16.

This year's 14 award recipients were the stars set among a galaxy of planets, represented on stage by dangling globes of color and sharing space with the brown hand of the Creator reaching down from the heavens to clasp a world in his fingers.

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REVIEW

A frontier town met the final frontier when Edmonton played host to the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards on March 16.

This year's 14 award recipients were the stars set among a galaxy of planets, represented on stage by dangling globes of color and sharing space with the brown hand of the Creator reaching down from the heavens to clasp a world in his fingers.

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The Caldwell First Nation has declared WAR - a Walk Against Racism. The 120-km walk will begin on April 23 at the N'Amerind Friendship Centre in London, Ont. and finish April 27 at the Caldwell First Nation band office in Blenheim, Ont.

"Anti-Native sentiment," said Caldwell Chief Larry Johnson, "is being encouraged by local politicians" and the walk is to inform the public of the actions that some of the non-Native community is taking in their opposition to Caldwell First Nation plans to create a land base in the Blenheim area.

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The Caldwell First Nation has declared WAR - a Walk Against Racism. The 120-km walk will begin on April 23 at the N'Amerind Friendship Centre in London, Ont. and finish April 27 at the Caldwell First Nation band office in Blenheim, Ont.

"Anti-Native sentiment," said Caldwell Chief Larry Johnson, "is being encouraged by local politicians" and the walk is to inform the public of the actions that some of the non-Native community is taking in their opposition to Caldwell First Nation plans to create a land base in the Blenheim area.

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Despite all the hyperbole in the British Columbia media over the terms of the Nuu-chah-nulth agreement-in-principle, it may already be dead in the water.

Local sources say the ratification process requires all member communities that make up the Vancouver Island tribal council to vote in favor. If even one says no, it's back to square one.

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Despite all the hyperbole in the British Columbia media over the terms of the Nuu-chah-nulth agreement-in-principle, it may already be dead in the water.

Local sources say the ratification process requires all member communities that make up the Vancouver Island tribal council to vote in favor. If even one says no, it's back to square one.

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Supporters of the land claims of British Columbia's Shuswap Nation met on the slopes of Sun Peaks Ski Resort near Kamloops on March 10 to take advantage of the media exposure that came with MuchMusic's week-long concert event SnowJob 2001 that took place on location there.

The resort plans a $70 million expansion on to land that was set aside in 1862 for a reserve for the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people.

Chief Bonnie Leonard of the Kamloops Indian Band supports the Neskonlith, Adams Lake and Little Shuswap bands in their specific claim to the area.

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Supporters of the land claims of British Columbia's Shuswap Nation met on the slopes of Sun Peaks Ski Resort near Kamloops on March 10 to take advantage of the media exposure that came with MuchMusic's week-long concert event SnowJob 2001 that took place on location there.

The resort plans a $70 million expansion on to land that was set aside in 1862 for a reserve for the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people.

Chief Bonnie Leonard of the Kamloops Indian Band supports the Neskonlith, Adams Lake and Little Shuswap bands in their specific claim to the area.

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The president of one of two Métis organizations in Ontario is adamant that his organization should be representing the province's Métis in the upcoming hunting negotiation process.

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The president of one of two Métis organizations in Ontario is adamant that his organization should be representing the province's Métis in the upcoming hunting negotiation process.