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More than Aboriginal post-secondary students from across Saskatchewan gathered at the Centennial Auditorium in Saskatoon Feb. 1, as the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) hosted its first Corporate Circle Job Fair.

Some of the province's biggest employers were involved in the job fair, organized by FSIN's Corporate Circle as a way to create employment opportunities for Aboriginal youth, and to show them what kind of a future Saskatchewan has to offer.

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Urban Indian. That's what I am, through and through, and proud of it. I remember growing up and feeling just a little confused about what that meant exactly. We all know what our traditional ancestors were like, or at least have a good idea. We can try to emulate them in our day-to-day life. Those who live on the reserve, raised amongst other Aboriginal children, have even stronger ties to their people and traditions. What I'd like to bring to attention is the gray area of the Urban Indian.

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Urban Indian. That's what I am, through and through, and proud of it. I remember growing up and feeling just a little confused about what that meant exactly. We all know what our traditional ancestors were like, or at least have a good idea. We can try to emulate them in our day-to-day life. Those who live on the reserve, raised amongst other Aboriginal children, have even stronger ties to their people and traditions. What I'd like to bring to attention is the gray area of the Urban Indian.

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If Darryl Angus has his way, record numbers of Aboriginal people will be heading for the polls when the next provincial election is held in Saskatchewan.

Angus is one of the three founders of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Education and Voter Registration Drive, a nonprofit organization formed to encourage Aboriginal people to take part in the election process at all levels.

Angus, along with Jason Bear and Donald Morin, founded the organization last January while all three were Sociology majors at the University of Saskatchewan.

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If Darryl Angus has his way, record numbers of Aboriginal people will be heading for the polls when the next provincial election is held in Saskatchewan.

Angus is one of the three founders of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Education and Voter Registration Drive, a nonprofit organization formed to encourage Aboriginal people to take part in the election process at all levels.

Angus, along with Jason Bear and Donald Morin, founded the organization last January while all three were Sociology majors at the University of Saskatchewan.

I have seen the future and it is right now. I was at the inaugural meeting of the All Nations Party that took place in Kamloops recently and felt for the first time that I was doing something that really mattered.

I have seen the future and it is right now. I was at the inaugural meeting of the All Nations Party that took place in Kamloops recently and felt for the first time that I was doing something that really mattered.

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Roland, a First Nation's student confronted Lorenzo Bouchard outside the legislative buildings in Victoria on Feb. 1. Bouchard has been picketing the University of Victoria, Camosun College and the legislature with a message about treaty negotiations or Aboriginal people in general.

"True Aboriginal people should be individually given a piece of land and a sum of money," in regards to rectifying past injustices, but "true Aboriginal people" are only those that have and can prove 100 per cent Native blood, he told Roland and Raven's Eye.

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Roland, a First Nation's student confronted Lorenzo Bouchard outside the legislative buildings in Victoria on Feb. 1. Bouchard has been picketing the University of Victoria, Camosun College and the legislature with a message about treaty negotiations or Aboriginal people in general.

"True Aboriginal people should be individually given a piece of land and a sum of money," in regards to rectifying past injustices, but "true Aboriginal people" are only those that have and can prove 100 per cent Native blood, he told Roland and Raven's Eye.

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The Aboriginal Tobacco Strategy of British Columbia received $328,000 from the province this year to help Aboriginal people kick the smoking habit. In its third year, the strategy attempts to mobilize Aboriginal communities to protect members from abusing tobacco products.