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Life in Canada's northernmost regions has gone through a number of changes over the past century. Once a nomadic people who lived off the land and followed their food supply as it moved with the seasons, the Inuit have been changing since their first contact with Europeans. They now live in settlements of western-style homes, no longer at the mercy of the often harsh environment that surrounds them, and no longer as connected to the land.

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Hallmark Entertainment's mini-series Dreamkeeper is guaranteed to be a hit with viewers when it airs on ABC Dec. 28 and 29, if the reaction from people at the screening held Nov. 8 in Calgary is any indication.

The made-for-television movie took 78 days to film in more than 70 locations across southern Alberta, with more than 1,500 Aboriginal people involved in its making.

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Honour Earth Mother

By Basil Johnston

Kegedonce Press

171 pages, (sc)

$19

Ojibway ethnographer Basil Johnston's newest book, Honour Earth Mother, is a collection of stories about clothing, housing, food and medicine (the needs of people), as well as creation, geography, history and ceremony (the world around the people). Johnston explains in an introduction how the animals and the earth provide for human needs, which makes everything interrelated.

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Perverts, Potheads, Serial Killers and Lawyers

By Alan N. Young

Key Porter Books

Toronto, Ontario

322 pages

$36.95

This book will rattle your cage with ideas that will clash with attitudes you've probably never even thought needed to be examined.

Some readers will react angrily; others will nod their heads and say, 'Yes, of course. Why didn't I think of this?' You will laugh. You will think. And you will enjoy.

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Jocelyne Soulodre

-President & CEO

Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business

The Little Prince, or as I first knew it, Le Petit Prince, first entranced me as a child growing up in St. Boniface, the "French Quarter" of Winnipeg, in the 60s.

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Bill Reid:

The Making of an Indian

By Maria Tippett

Random House Canada

336 pages (hc)

$39.95

The life and work of Bill Reid has been the topic of a number of documentaries and books over the years, the latest of which comes from Victoria-born Dr. Maria Tippett, an award winning author who has penned a number of books on art, culture and history.

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Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?

Jennifer Podemski: Honesty.

W: What is it that really makes you mad?

J.P.: Oh God, a lot of things make me mad. Littering, racism and intolerance.

W: When are you at your happiest?

J.P.: When I'm at home with my family.

W: What one word best describes you when you are at your worst?

J.P.: Fire.

W: What one person do you most admire and why?

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Artist-Burnt

Album-

Project 1-The Avenue

Song-Message

Label-Sunshine Records

Producer-

Danny Schur

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Batter up!

The Ohsweken Redmen will play host to the 2004 All-Ontario Fastball Championship participants. The tourney will be held on Six Nations of the Grand River territory in Ontario from Aug. 27 to 29. Winners in both the men's and women's category will represent Ontario in the 2005 North American Indigenous Games in Buffalo, New York.

Get your entries in

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A bit of history will be made at the Gaylord Powless Arena in Ohsweken, Ont. early next year. The Six Nations Skating Club is playing host to the inaugural First Nations Skating Competition on Jan. 3 and 4. The event is believed to be the first skating meet in the country restricted to Native athletes.