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The Canadian Aboriginal AIDs Network will be holding its second annual general meeting, headlined Looking In, Looking Out-A Step Towards Strength and Unity June 27 to 29. It will be held at the Victoria Park Suites Hotel in Ottawa and is open to all Aboriginal people living with HIV or AIDS and all other groups interested in attending. The meeting will cover bylaw amendments and the organization's auditor's report. The meeting will also give members a chance to vote for six board of director positions.

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Dan McFeeters spent 15 years as a driller, but says his brushes with danger in the oil patch will never compare to the horrific predicament he faced last December.

McFeeters was headed for home on foot during the late morning of Dec. 17 when he chanced upon a moose trail along the edge of French Bay on Cold Lake, Alta..

With temperatures hovering around the minus-20s, McFeeters had dressed warmly. A slightly fresh layer of snow blanketed the ground.

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There are portions of the National Lacrosse League season that brothers Kim and Rodd Squire would rather forget.

But not the ending.

For the second consecutive year, the Squires, who hail from Six Nations, Ont., were members of the Toronto Rock, that captured the NLL title.

Toronto edged the visiting Rochester Knighthawks 14-13 in this year's championship match staged May 6 at famed Maple Leaf Gardens.

Kaleb Toth of the Rock scored the winning goal with just one second remaining in the contest.

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Cecil Nepoose is known in Indian Country as a man with years of experience in all phases of powwow, from dancing to organizing.

To make it work, he said, "people have to be more or less certified or bone fide people to handle the finances. People that have accountability and credibility." Another key element of running a successful powwow, he says, is having prominent powwow people involved, with a broad range of powwow knowledge and experience.

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By all accounts the powwow advertised as the Rock Island Drum Society Residential School Memorial Competition and held at the airport hanger in Edmonton's city centre April 14 to16 was a great success. But Sunday night when prize winners and organizers should have been getting cash, they got cheques written on a closed bank account or on an account with insufficient funds.

Alfred Beaver and Martha Boskoyous were listed as contact people for the event on powwow flyers.. Beaver won't say who was on the powwow committee.

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Dancer and choreographer Jerry Longboat is forming a bridge with his work, linking past with present, bringing traditional Aboriginal movement and intent into a contemporary world.

Longboat is Turtle Clan from the Mohawk and Cayuga Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, Six Nations of the Grand River in Southern Ontario, and now lives in Vancouver.

Longboat was in Edmonton recently, performing his latest solo work Raven's Shadow to a receptive audience during the Feats Festival, organized by Alberta Dance Alliance.

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Actor Tom Jackson has taken on another worthy cause. Known for his show called the Huron Carol which raises thousands of dollars for Canadian food banks each year, Jackson has embarked on a campaign for suicide awareness.

For the last two years Jackson has visited more than 65 communities across Canada with his show called the Dreamcatcher Tour. Jackson created the tour after 19-year-old fellow actor Mervin Good Eagle committed suicide on Oct. 23, 1996. Jackson and the rest of the crew from the television series North of 60 were devastated.

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Sixteen-year-old Raven Buffalo from Samson First Nation is Miss Teen Alberta.

It's been a busy time for the ambitious student ever since winning the title on April 2. Pre-pageant, too, there were daily rehearsals in Edmonton. The girls learned the opening number that they danced on pageant night at Dance Alberta. There were photo shoots at places like Edmonton's Water Park and there were other functions designed to give the girls exposure to the public.

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Master of Ceremonies Michael Horse is filling an interlude during the Miss Indian World Pageant held April 27 to 29 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Hollywood actor tells the crowd he did some work up in Canada on a show called North of 60.

"Ever heard of it?" he asks.

Loud hoots and hollers.

"Great show, isn't it? I love Canada. But their frybread ... I sat down for some up there. 'Where's the fry bread?' I asked. 'Right there on the table,' they told me. 'There? That? That's not fry bread. Where I come from, we'd call that doughnut holes!'"

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The Cree international campaign on forestry is catching fire in Washington, D.C.

Crees addressed a rally of about 100 people against Canada's forestry policies outside the White House in April.

They were joined by officials of the British Columbia Interior Alliance, which represents five First Nations that cover a quarter of the province, as well as by American and Canadian environmentalists.

After the demonstration, the First Nations officials and environmentalists held a press conference to denounce Canada's weak regulations governing forestry.