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My dad's a veteran of the Canadian army. My wife's father was in the air force. My first daughter's late grandfather was also in the army. We are really proud of our fathers, our other relatives and the other Indian men and women who put their lives on the line to defend this country. But we also recognize the fact that they put their lives on the line for lands that had been taken away from their people.

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"Keep it real and bout it, bout it" - is a phrase most people over the age of 30 might not understand, but in the magazine called Generation X it's a message that reaches the young people.

Chris Ross, the chief editor and publisher, intends to reach them and that's what is making Generation X the fastest growing publication of its kind in Saskatchewan.

The young Aboriginal man from Red Earth First Nation published the fourth edition of Generation X in March. The magazine is for and about Aboriginal young people with a positive message.

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Generation X How it all started

For those of you who are still unfamiliar with the magazine Generation X . . . where the heck have you been?

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They call him a natural, an athlete born with talent to spare and the drive to succeed beyond anyone's dreams or expectations.

From the first time he put on the gloves in 1996, 16-year-old Bryan Whitstone knew he had found his sport.

After only three weeks of intensive training at the Lloydminster Boxing Club, Whitstone was in the ring for his first amateur fight. Four months later, he had cleaned up at his first tournament, the Alberta Silver Gloves, a tournament for boxers with fewer than 10 fights under their belts.

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Ten years past retirement, Metis educator Howard Adams still defines his views as "radical." Whatever the political stripe, Adams' conversation and writing reveal the passion of a man who has made a career out of combating the systemic racism he says holds Aboriginal people back.

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Sixteen-year-old Alika LaFontaine seems to have it all together for his age: a close and loving family, a solid record of academic achievement, a career goal, community and peer support for just about everything he does, and to top it all off, he is recognized this year as the Youth recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award.

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"It's good to have goals, but try to be realistic; if the job market isn't there, you may have to try other things." Dr. Lillian Eva Dyck, this year's National Aboriginal Achievement Award winner in the field of Science and Technology, says that although people need to plan their future, they should remain flexible in a rapidly changing society.

The same advice applies if you find you are completely unsuited to the career choice you have made - change it for something you like and success will follow, she adds.

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Theresa Stevenson, this year's recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Community Development, is best known for the hot lunch program called "Chili for Children," which she established in 1979 in a low-income neighborhood in Regina for Aboriginal school children. That program is still going strong and has expanded to three locations with new people at the helm.

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Some things about Allen Sapp you should know. He has stayed true to his vision, all his life it seems like, becoming materially successful on his own terms. The other things you should know is that he is proud to be an Indian and he is proud of what he has accomplished as an artist, but he never fell into the trap of producing knock-off 'Native art' to make a buck. In fact, he used to be criticized sometimes for not painting the stereotypical Norval Morrisseau derivatives that gallery hoppers buy from some other Indians as "the real stuff."

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You mention somebody is in a black mood, or perhaps a friend of yours has a red- hot temper, and you can immediately get a grasp of the attitude or temperament of the individual you are talking about. Color, for the longest time, has often been used as an element in describing the emotional and moral fibre of people, places and things. But, oddly enough, it seems the darker the color mentioned, the more dangerous or ominous the objects of the sentence become.