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The third annual James Buller Awards ceremony held on June 18 honored Aboriginal people in the arts who have achieved excellence and contributed to the area of theatre, film and television.

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Like his father and grandfather before him, Stanley Sarazin of the Algonquins of Golden Lake near Pembroke, Ont. makes birch bark canoes. Now he's teaching his sons the age-old skill.

"My father was my teacher and now I'm passing it down to my sons. It's a tradition but I can't see that it's that remarkable," said Sarazin.

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As the 100th anniversary of the northern adhesion to Treaty 8 approaches, a small group of people who believe they represent what remains of one of the treaty's original signatories is trying to re-establish what it claims is a distinct Indigenous nation that was intentionally dispersed and almost destroyed by the federal government.

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A Federal Court of Canada justice has ruled that a Native woman who works for a reserve-based company doesn't have to pay income tax, even if she lives and works off reserve.

A decision on whether or not the federal government will appeal the June 9 decision in Schilling v. Canada won't be announced until Sept. 9 at the latest. The normal 30-day period during which a party to a lawsuit can file an appeal is extended to accommodate the summer holidays. That accounts for the extra two-month wait for Revenue Canada's decision on whether or not to appeal.

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Unity '99 may have officially started on July 7, but for a group of about 40 people, it actually started a few nights earlier.

In Regina. On a bus.

Shannon Avison, the Indian Communication Arts (INCA) program director at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (SIFC) in Regina, organized the bus trip to Seattle. Thanks to her, students in the INCA Summer Institute program, some journalism instructors and some working journalists were on their way to the largest gathering of journalists ever: Unity '99.

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Everett Soop's body is frail and weak, but his heart and soul are as strong as the Rocky Mountains that watch over him and the land that he loves.

He's lived with the muscular dystrophy that has confined him to a wheelchair for 40 years, with diabetes further ravaging his body.

Despite all the physical adversity he's faced in life, his great spiritual strength has allowed him to look back with few regrets and little bitterness.

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The joint management committee of the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy has released a report of a six-month study into the issues of Ontario-born Aboriginal children put in the custody of non-Native care providers outside their communities of origin.

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It began mid-morning on the first day of the four-day joint session of the Assembly of First Nations and National Congress of American Indians. Those who ventured outside the convention halls to enjoy the warm weather and the view of Vancouver's scenic waterfront - and there were many - heard the drums.

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In what some interpreted as a call for unity and others saw as a demand for absolute power to represent all Indigenous people in Canada, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine lashed out at his critics and dismissed claims by other national Native organizations during a July 21 speech at the Assembly of First Nations assembly in Vancouver.

On the second day of the four-day gathering, Fontaine, according to AFN staff, threw away his speaking notes and spoke for about a half-hour about his first two years on the job.

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Just days after Jane Stewart told the Assembly of First Nations' Vancouver convention that she was still personally committed to the idea of an independent specific claims tribunal, the former minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development was granted what Ottawa insiders say was her expressed wish to move up in the federal cabinet pecking order.