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Right now in Canada, there are four Aboriginal people waiting to find compatible donors to provide them with bone marrow for a much needed transplant. One of them is Robert L'Hirondelle.

Robert is seven years old, and was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia four years ago. After undergoing two-and-a-half years of chemotherapy, Robert's cancer went into remission. However, during a routine test in June, it was discovered the cancer had returned.

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Aboriginal entrepreneur and business woman Leslie Loukianow is sharing her success story, taking part in a project designed to show young girls that opportunities exist for women to have careers in science and technology.

Loukianow's story is part of Against the Odds, a video highlighting the achievements of three Canadian women from diverse cultures and backgrounds who have founded successful businesses in the fields of science and technology.

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James Welch, the Blackfeet-Gros Ventre author of Fools Crow, Winter in the Blood and Killing Custer, has once again produced a richly textured novel with vivid locales, nuanced characters and a fast-paced narrative. Like any good novelist, the Montana-based Welch uses the story of one man to illustrate the story of an entire society, in this case, a society undergoing massive and inevitable change.

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There is a lot to be found between the covers of Norman Hallendy's book, Inuksuit-Silent Messengers of the North, not the least of which are Hallendy's breathtaking photos of dozens of inuksuit, impressive stone constructs standing against the stark, beautiful backdrop of the Canadian Arctic.

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Waneek Horn-Miller's achievements as an athlete may have finally overshadowed her involvement in the Oka crisis 10 years ago in Kahnawake, Que. At the age of 14, she was in the midst of a volatile confrontation between the Mohawk people, the town of Oka and the governments of the day over the issue of a municipal golf course on Mohawk territory. When she was struck and knocked down by a Canadian soldier's bayonet, the incident made front page news.

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Three Native musicians and a didgeridoo-playing Caucasian say the high note in their Sydney Olympic performances called the Walk About Tour 2000 will come if they stand beside Ayers Rock.

"It's one of the modern wonders of the world," said Dave Delcary. The sacred rock has fascinated the Ojibway man since he was a youngster.

"I hope we go there," he said. "It's something I always wanted to see."

Delcary is a guitar player and keyboardist for a band called Between Heaven and Earth. They performed at some of the venues during the 2000 Olympics.

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The capital's Canadian Museum of Civilization has had a new president and chief executive officer for only five months, but it is clear he is putting his stamp on the way our cultures are reflected back to us.

His plans call for adding explanatory text to exhibits that previously was left out or minimized. He wants to showcase history with all the warts included.

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When Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray proudly announced that the Trans Canada Trail was now officially open, the crowd assembled at Jacques Cartier Park in Hull, Que. cheered and applauded the completion of one of the most monumental projects ever undertaken, the Trans Canada Trail Relay 2000.

The concluding ceremony on Sept. 9 saw the water from the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans that had been carried cross-country by 5,000 official carriers symbolically poured into the newly built Trans Canada Trail Fountain.

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As part of the opening celebrations held Aug. 25 to 27 at the Frog Lake First Nation Millennium 2000 Powwow, several young women from Samson band in Hobbema, Alta. teamed up to give the crowd a treat.

Creating a circle within a circle, the four female hoop dancers entertained a full house in the open-air arbor.

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Mi'kmaq lobster fishers are finding themselves in hot water for doing the same thing that the Supreme Court of Canada acquitted Donald Marshall, Jr. of doing a year ago.