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At five-foot-six, Mitch Lamoureux is about half a foot too tall to be a jockey.

Considered too short to become a regular NHL player, Lamoureux has still been able to enjoy a rather decent pro hockey career. In his 17th season as a pro, he currently toils for the American Hockey League's Hershey Bears.

Lamoureux, 36, believes the time has come to hang up his skates for good. He's expected to retire after the Bears' season concludes this spring.

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It takes the steady hand of a daring cowboy who loves an electrifing rush to enter the wild horse racing competition at a rodeo, someone who likes to take on 10 wild horses in four days.

For a Blackfoot First Nation man like Steve Solway, 37, wild horse racing is something that he loves doing and plans to continue as long as he can. Solway, and the other two members of his team, follow the rodeo circuit to get in on the wild horse events because of a genuine love for it.

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In April, Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak of Cape Dorset, N.W.T. will have her art printed on a new 25 cent coin. The coin called "Our Northern Heritage" is a tribute to Inuit art, and its launching will be part of the celebration that will mark the creation of the new territory called Nunavut.

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Artist-photographer Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole/Muskogee/Dine) is making "art for a Native audience, with Native content." Although the Arizona-born artist has "made it" from the White perspective, with numerous and prestigious art residencies and a room to herself in the recent "Native Nations" exhibition at the Barbican in London, she's most concerned that her complex, multi-layered photography find a Native audience. To Hulleah, what matters is "if Native people look at the work and embrace it."

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The National Film Board of Canada publishes a catalogue that chronicles the work of Aboriginal directors and film-makers. The catalogue, titled Aboriginal Directors Video Collection 1999, features brief biographies on the directors, and short profiles and histories of each of the videos they have on offer. There is a list of addresses and phone numbers to use when ordering. The 15 names in this year's catalogue includes Anne Frazier Henry, Dana Claxton, Gary Dale Farmer, Doug Cuthand and Gil Cardinal.

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For decades, Native Americans in Hollywood have been fighting against being excluded from participating in mainstream America, and it's ironic that now the Native press finds itself embroiled in the same struggle with the organizers of a Native American event.

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Menominee Tribal Chairman and actor Apesanahkwat, along with Elaine Miles, opened the Seventh Annual First American in the Arts Awards (FAITA). The gala event was held on Feb. 13 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. and once again the evening brought together the Native film community and numerous gaming tribes interested in sponsoring and supporting the various art projects.

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A book on the history of the Callihoo family that was completed a short time ago was launched on Jan. 23 at the Musee Heritage Museum in St. Albert. The celebration of this new book attracted a full house with a number of the Callihoo family in attendance.

The book titled The Sun Traveller was written by Elizabeth Macpherson. It chronicles the history of the Callihoo family from the early 1800s to the present. Macpherson first became interested in the Callihoo family when she worked at the museum.

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On a Saturday morning, a young Aboriginal child wakes up, remembers his favorite cartoons are on and turns on the television. The characters that play out the animated programs are Aboriginal and they speak an Aboriginal language.

Beginning September, this scenario could happen in homes across Canada because of a new channel that will offer programming that will be about Aboriginal people and their culture.

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A Yukon film-maker is the winner of a television production award. Arthur "Tookie" Mercredi will receive more than $10,000 to produce a half-hour educational documentary about a traditional Gwich'in family living in the Yukon. The documentary will be broadcast on Television Northern Canada. TVNC administers the application and selection of the annual NWTel Cable/ACL Aboriginal Production Award, which is open to independent Aboriginal film and television producers from the North.