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Who: Dean Boucher, 27-year-old Metis from Lac La Biche

What: Launch of his new CD, Sweet Memories.

Boucher: "I started singing at the age of seven years old and was inspired by my father and his music, fiddling and playing guitar with his friends. I decided to take it upon myself to learn how to play music. . . ."

Interviewer: "So you've performed a lot in the Lac La Biche area?"

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Who: Dean Boucher, 27-year-old Metis from Lac La Biche

What: Launch of his new CD, Sweet Memories.

Boucher: "I started singing at the age of seven years old and was inspired by my father and his music, fiddling and playing guitar with his friends. I decided to take it upon myself to learn how to play music. . . ."

Interviewer: "So you've performed a lot in the Lac La Biche area?"

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Tansi!

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RICHMOND HILL - Do you have an inspirational, true story to share? It can be about love, parenting, achieving goals, facing adversity, overcoming loss, or other similar themes of the heart. You can be published in the upcoming Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul.

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RICHMOND HILL - Do you have an inspirational, true story to share? It can be about love, parenting, achieving goals, facing adversity, overcoming loss, or other similar themes of the heart. You can be published in the upcoming Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul.

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TORONTO - Of the 14 recipients of this year's National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, six are from British Columbia and two are Yukon-based. The award show is scheduled for March 10 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver. Only one Alberta-based winner will be honored.

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The return of 251 sacred objects from Calgary's Glenbow Museum to the Blackfoot Confederacy marks both an end and a beginning. It is the end of 10 years of negotiations regarding the repatriation of objects vital to Blackfoot communities in Southern Alberta and the beginning of a new relationship between the museum and First Nations people.

The hand-over, which took place Jan. 14 at the Glenbow, brought leaders of the Siksika, Peigan, and Blood together with museum officials and Premier Ralph Klein.

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The return of 251 sacred objects from Calgary's Glenbow Museum to the Blackfoot Confederacy marks both an end and a beginning. It is the end of 10 years of negotiations regarding the repatriation of objects vital to Blackfoot communities in Southern Alberta and the beginning of a new relationship between the museum and First Nations people.

The hand-over, which took place Jan. 14 at the Glenbow, brought leaders of the Siksika, Peigan, and Blood together with museum officials and Premier Ralph Klein.

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ALBERTA - It has been a long time since Canada's First Nations had an Indian princess to represent them on the national stage. That is about to change.

Grab up a pen and block out June 16 to 18 when we'll see the introduction of a Miss Indian Canada competition as a highlight of the Canadian National Powwow, said Janet Trottier, the princess pageant co-ordinator. The pageant is only open to girls aged 16 to 24, she said.

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ALBERTA - It has been a long time since Canada's First Nations had an Indian princess to represent them on the national stage. That is about to change.

Grab up a pen and block out June 16 to 18 when we'll see the introduction of a Miss Indian Canada competition as a highlight of the Canadian National Powwow, said Janet Trottier, the princess pageant co-ordinator. The pageant is only open to girls aged 16 to 24, she said.