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This year's Metis Rendezvous Day at the Prince Albert Indian-Metis Friendship Centre saw continued growth in the popular event. More than 200 people attended the evening celebration of Metis culture, held on the 11th anniversary of the death of Louis Riel, Nov. 16.

"Everything went off beautifully," said friendship center program director Rose Henry. "We may even be looking for a larger facility for next year; this year was a little crowded at the friendship center."

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This year's Metis Rendezvous Day at the Prince Albert Indian-Metis Friendship Centre saw continued growth in the popular event. More than 200 people attended the evening celebration of Metis culture, held on the 11th anniversary of the death of Louis Riel, Nov. 16.

"Everything went off beautifully," said friendship center program director Rose Henry. "We may even be looking for a larger facility for next year; this year was a little crowded at the friendship center."

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This year's Metis Rendezvous Day at the Prince Albert Indian-Metis Friendship Centre saw continued growth in the popular event. More than 200 people attended the evening celebration of Metis culture, held on the 11th anniversary of the death of Louis Riel, Nov. 16.

"Everything went off beautifully," said friendship center program director Rose Henry. "We may even be looking for a larger facility for next year; this year was a little crowded at the friendship center."

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Delegates from across Canada gathered in Prince Albert, Sask. for three days in early August to come up with a plan to create a national First Nations' gaming association.

All delegates received a 10-page draft proposal providing ideas on how to develop the association to take back to their communities for discussion.

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Yellowhead Tribal Council scored a coup July 17 when Rubin Hurricane Carter made an appearance at a YTC education conference, banquet and fund-raiser where he was the featured keynote speaker.

Carter, now the subject of a full length book, The 16th Round, and a movie entitled The Hurricane, with Denzel Washington playing the part of the former middleweight boxer, spent more than 20 years in jail for a triple murder he did not commit.

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The Metis: Our People, Our Story CD-ROM was released on Sept. 1 during the Prince Albert Metis Fall Festival by the Gabriel Dumont Institute (GDI) of Saskatoon.

"It has been quite some time in the making," said Darren Prefontaine, curriculum development officer at GDI.

The release of the CD-ROM comes in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the Gabriel Dumont Institute.

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A new documentary about the community of Hollow Water and its journey towards healing is now available to the public through the National Film Board.

The community of Hollow Water is a small Ojibway community located 200 km north of Winnipeg on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg. Of the 450 residents of the community, about two-thirds have been victims of sexual abuse.

Hollow Water documents the work done by the people of the community to first face, then deal with, years of sexual abuse.

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Inside the Opaskwayak Cree Nation Youth Centre, the big screen TV pulsates with Prozzak, the music's steady thump punctuated by the clack! of pool balls connecting and ricocheting across the green felt.

The crowd on this afternoon in mid-August ranges in age from about 9 to 15, a mix of boys and girls. Twenty-four year-old Charmaine Sayese runs the canteen, keeps track of the pool tabs (10 cents a minute, or five bucks for an hour), and makes the kids say "please" and "thank you."

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Students looking to build a firm foundation of knowledge regarding Aboriginal issues can now do so at Langara College in Vancouver through the school's new Aboriginal Studies program.

The two-year program, launched in January, is offered by the college's Aboriginal Studies department within the Social Sciences division.

Students entering the Aboriginal Studies program can work toward either an Arts and Science diploma or an Associate of Arts degree. Students who already have degrees have the further option of taking the program as a post-degree certificate.

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A major factor to the improving quality of on-reserve education in various parts of Canada can be traced back to a third floor office in the education building on the University of Saskatchewan campus.

Orest Murawsky, the director of the Indian Teacher Education Program (ITEP), is obviously pleased with the program's results.

"ITEP has been here (University of Saskatchewan) since 1973," he said. "We are a foundational program for First Nations/Aboriginal students."