The 2009 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) are still more than half a year away.
But Darryl Bauer doesn't mind making a rather bold prediction for the tournament, which will be staged in Winnipeg next May.
"It's going to be the best one yet," said Bauer, who was the bid committee chairman for the Manitoba group that was awarded the hosting rights for the 2009 NAHC.

Thunder Bay's AHL is ready for regular season

Breastfeeding has long been known as the optimal form of feeding a baby. In fact, it is reported that no other form of feeding equals the benefits that breastfeeding provides. However, due to unforeseen issues in B.C. prisons, those benefits will have to be brushed aside.
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the representative for children and youth, in British Columbia, is fighting to ensure that mothers and their babies receive what is rightfully theirs.

The hope of restoring good will between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people has been manifested in the form of a new school program, meant to enhance the Native studies curriculum in the Six Nations area.
Zig Misiak, a Canadian of Polish descent, and Raymond Skye, Tuscarora of the Six Nations, are co-creators of the Six Nations Iroquois Clans program.
"We sought balance between oral and written history respecting the validity of both," said Misiak.

Northern communities in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba can now benefit from broader services by satellite thanks to an agreement signed in Kuujjuaq, a community in Quebec's Nunavik region.

Artist-Teagan Littlechief
Album-Rising Above
Song-One Woman
Label- Independent
Producer-Johnny Gasparic

Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?
Robert Animikii Horton: Integrity. Integrity is everything.

W: What is it that really makes you mad?
R.A.H.: Honestly? When our young men do not respect our women. One cannot respect seven generations forward, or the future, if they cannot respect those who make each possible.

As an astronomer, Rob Cardinal has spent an inordinate amount of time gazing up into the night sky. But now, following a discovery he made in early October, one of the celestial objects he will be viewing during his surveys of the sky will be a comet that bears his name.

An old saying suggests that, "the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach." However, a culinary arts program, which is home to approximately 75 helpful programs is proving that it is also the best way into the job market.
The Kla-how-eya Aboriginal Centre of SACS, located in Surrey, B.C. has been in existence since 1996. Their mandate is to improve the health and well-being of Aboriginals.

First Nations, Métis and Inuit students will one day have a place to call home away from home at the University of Alberta, thanks largely to a one-million-dollar gift made by Chancellor Eric Newell and wife Kathy.
Their donation will help support the construction of a gathering place that will "embrace and provide an inclusive and supportive learning and living environment for Aboriginal students, faculty and staff at the U of A."