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Education, training and employment for youth in the forestry industry will be some of the major issues discussed at the Aboriginal Forestry 2001 conference in Saskatoon from Jan. 21 to 24. The theme for the conference is Putting Today?s Experiences into Tomorrow?s Forestry.

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Education, training and employment for youth in the forestry industry will be some of the major issues discussed at the Aboriginal Forestry 2001 conference in Saskatoon from Jan. 21 to 24. The theme for the conference is Putting Today?s Experiences into Tomorrow?s Forestry.

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Tobique First Nation has initiated a joint study with the University of New Brunswick?s nursing faculty to assess the community?s prevailing attitude toward a disease that once killed large numbers of Maliseet people, but is nearly dormant in the province now. The qualitative research study of how tuberculosis affected the Maliseet will be completed the end of March.

Researchers are interviewing band members who can relate how tuberculosis affected their families as much as 50 years ago.

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Tobique First Nation has initiated a joint study with the University of New Brunswick?s nursing faculty to assess the community?s prevailing attitude toward a disease that once killed large numbers of Maliseet people, but is nearly dormant in the province now. The qualitative research study of how tuberculosis affected the Maliseet will be completed the end of March.

Researchers are interviewing band members who can relate how tuberculosis affected their families as much as 50 years ago.

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An edition of the Native Social Work Journal dedicated to HIV/AIDS within the Aboriginal population was launched Dec. 1 in Sudbury.

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An edition of the Native Social Work Journal dedicated to HIV/AIDS within the Aboriginal population was launched Dec. 1 in Sudbury.

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To mark the fourth annual Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Day on Dec. 1, community leaders across Canada joined forces with Aboriginal AIDS service organizations to co-ordinate events aimed at raising awareness of HIV and AIDS among community members.

Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Day is co-ordinated by the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), a national coalition of Aboriginal people and organizations. CAAN provides leadership, support and advocacy for Aboriginal people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.

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To mark the fourth annual Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Day on Dec. 1, community leaders across Canada joined forces with Aboriginal AIDS service organizations to co-ordinate events aimed at raising awareness of HIV and AIDS among community members.

Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Day is co-ordinated by the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), a national coalition of Aboriginal people and organizations. CAAN provides leadership, support and advocacy for Aboriginal people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.

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Mary Longman?s Blood and Stones exhibition provides a link of the stories, historical events, cultural and spiritual practices of the Plains people.

?The essence that I strive to achieve through the metaphorical form can be described as the Manitou, soul, presence and life in all things animate or inanimate,? she said. The effect of her effort is mesmerizing.

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Mary Longman?s Blood and Stones exhibition provides a link of the stories, historical events, cultural and spiritual practices of the Plains people.

?The essence that I strive to achieve through the metaphorical form can be described as the Manitou, soul, presence and life in all things animate or inanimate,? she said. The effect of her effort is mesmerizing.