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A day-long workshop hosted by the Stardale Women's Group helped aid women with self-determination and healing, and provided them with information on how to start similar groups in their own communities.

Participants for the workshop came in from various parts of the province, with a vast majority of them hailing from Saskatoon and Regina.

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Chiefs, lawyers, consultants, professors from a wide range of disciplines, negotiators and others gathered at Simon Fraser University's downtown Vancouver Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue on March 1 and 2 to discuss ideas related to the British Columbia treaty process.

The discussions were off-the-record so the participants could feel free to throw out ideas and opinions that they might not want to see attributed to them in the press. But Raven's Eye was invited to sit in on some of the discussions and meet some of the contributors.

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Chiefs, lawyers, consultants, professors from a wide range of disciplines, negotiators and others gathered at Simon Fraser University's downtown Vancouver Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue on March 1 and 2 to discuss ideas related to the British Columbia treaty process.

The discussions were off-the-record so the participants could feel free to throw out ideas and opinions that they might not want to see attributed to them in the press. But Raven's Eye was invited to sit in on some of the discussions and meet some of the contributors.

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Willie Blackwater has started cleaning up the mess that the residential school experience made of his life and, because of that, he now feels he's qualified to be a leader.

Blackwater was the first victim to come forward in the now infamous Alberni Indian Residential School (AIRS) criminal action and subsequent ground breaking civil lawsuit. He was one of many presenters at the first international residential school conference hosted in Edmonton on Feb. 23, 24 and 25 by the Western Cree Tribal Council.

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Willie Blackwater has started cleaning up the mess that the residential school experience made of his life and, because of that, he now feels he's qualified to be a leader.

Blackwater was the first victim to come forward in the now infamous Alberni Indian Residential School (AIRS) criminal action and subsequent ground breaking civil lawsuit. He was one of many presenters at the first international residential school conference hosted in Edmonton on Feb. 23, 24 and 25 by the Western Cree Tribal Council.

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Secwepemc Elder Mary Thomas of Salmon Arm visited the University of Victoria recently to share her traditional knowledge of the environment and plant use. In all, Thomas gave five lectures, two of which were advertised as public Lansdowne lectures, and the others to classes in Child and Youth Care, History, and Education. She also was able to give interviews to two journalism students.

"I was very fortunate that my mother was so knowledgeable in the things I talk about today," said Thomas during one presentation. The knowledge runs deep in the family.

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Secwepemc Elder Mary Thomas of Salmon Arm visited the University of Victoria recently to share her traditional knowledge of the environment and plant use. In all, Thomas gave five lectures, two of which were advertised as public Lansdowne lectures, and the others to classes in Child and Youth Care, History, and Education. She also was able to give interviews to two journalism students.

"I was very fortunate that my mother was so knowledgeable in the things I talk about today," said Thomas during one presentation. The knowledge runs deep in the family.

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A documentary film shot during a month-long stay on the Burnt Church First Nation territory last fall will air on the Aboriginal People's Television Network on March 26 and 27.

Burnt Church: Obstruction of Justice is the work of Maliseet journalist Jeff Bear and his producer wife Marianne Jones.

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Chiefs, lawyers, consultants, professors from a wide range of disciplines, negotiators and others gathered at Simon Fraser University's downtown Vancouver Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue on March 1 and 2 to discuss ideas related to the British Columbia treaty process.

The discussions were off-the-record so the participants could feel free to throw out ideas and opinions that they might not want to see attributed to them in the press. But Raven's Eye was invited to sit in on some of the discussions and meet some of the contributors.

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Chiefs, lawyers, consultants, professors from a wide range of disciplines, negotiators and others gathered at Simon Fraser University's downtown Vancouver Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue on March 1 and 2 to discuss ideas related to the British Columbia treaty process.

The discussions were off-the-record so the participants could feel free to throw out ideas and opinions that they might not want to see attributed to them in the press. But Raven's Eye was invited to sit in on some of the discussions and meet some of the contributors.