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If you have a medical condition that could become life threatening if not properly treated, MedicAlert could help save your life. And if you are a First Nation person, you can become a MedicAlert member at no cost to you.

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Exploring Native North America

By David Hurst Thomas

240 pages, $59.95 (hc)

Oxford University Press

The long tradition of well-researched and carefully edited non-fiction trade books published by the Oxford University Press is upheld in one of this year's offerings by David Hurst Thomas.

We Were Not The Savages: A Mi'kmaq Perspective on the Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations-

New Twenty-First-Century Edition

By Daniel N. Paul

359 pgs (sc) $24.95

Fernwood Publishing

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Edited by Robert Bringhurst

250 pgs. (hc) $40.00

Douglas & McIntyre

Although renowned for his work in the visual arts, Haida sculptor Bill Reid worked with words as well as wood, working as a radio announcer and script writer before he received his first large carving commission in 1958. Now, two years after Reid's death, a selection of his writings have been gathered and published in book form.

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Monkey Beach

By Eden Robinson

384 pages (hc), $32.95

Knopf Canada

Eden Robinson's literary career is certainly off to a running start. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of stories published in 1996, received the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction in the Commonwealth, and was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable Book of the Year. She followed it up this year with "Monkey Beach," her first novel, garnering nominations for both the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award.

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The need for more than just a basic understanding of complex legal issues - matters that usually require several years of work in a reputable law school -is an unfortunate fact of life for Aboriginal people in Canada.

So politics addicts and those who are fascinated by things legal have cause to celebrate: the latest versions of Carswell Publishing's Native law textbooks are hot off the press. No fewer than eight new or newly updated books are now on sale.

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Ahtahkakoop: The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, His People, and Their Struggle for Survival 1816-1896

By Deanna Christensen

850 pages (hc), $49.95

Ahtahkakoop Publishing

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Anyone who is familiar with the rock explosion of the late sixties and seventies knows that most of the bands coming out of the Los Angeles area - Van Halen, KISS, Ratt, Poison, and Motley Crue - played at clubs like the Troubadour or the Whiskey a Go-Go, as it was known then. This was an era when most kids dreamt of picking up a guitar and playing those clubs as well.

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The best in Aboriginal talent from across the country is coming to your television set every Friday, on Buffalo Tracks.

The hour-long talk show, hosted by Evan Adams, is broadcast on APTN, and has quickly become the network's highest rated show. Adams, who is better known as an actor than as a talk show host, became involved in the show through his past work with Buffalo Tracks producer Gary Farmer. The two had worked together on the movie Smoke Signals, and Farmer thought of Adams when he was looking for a host.

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Roy Thomas is one of the foremost senior artists of the Woodland style in the Great Lakes region. In the 1980s, art critics linked him with "the younger generation" of Woodland artists after Norval Morriseau and Daphne Odjig in a period bridged by Carl Ray. Thomas has since participated in solo and group exhibitions from New Mexico to Munich, across Asia and Canada. His work graces 32 national collections and numerous international galleries.