Windspeaker's Entertainment Honor Roll

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A Yukon film-maker is the winner of a television production award. Arthur "Tookie" Mercredi will receive more than $10,000 to produce a half-hour educational documentary about a traditional Gwich'in family living in the Yukon. The documentary will be broadcast on Television Northern Canada. TVNC administers the application and selection of the annual NWTel Cable/ACL Aboriginal Production Award, which is open to independent Aboriginal film and television producers from the North.

This year's National Aboriginal Achievement Award winners include a fashion designer and an novelist. The 14 recipients of the sixth annual awards, selected from hundreds of nominations, were announced Feb. 8 and will be presented at Regina's Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts on March 12. This year's recipients are: Metis human rights activist Dr. Howard Adams, for education; Canada's High Commissioner to South Africa James Bartleman, for Public Service; pioneer court worker Dorothy Betz, for Community Development; Justice Rose Toodick Boyko, for Law and Justice; surgeon Dr. Edward Cree for Medicine; Neuropsychiatry researcher Dr. Lillian Eva Dyck, for Science and Technology; Haida fashion designer Dorothy Grant, for Business and Commerce; Inuk judge James Igloliorte, for Law and Justice; Dr. Malcolm King, the first full professor in a medical school, for medicine; Inuk novelist Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk, for Heritage and Spirituality; Theresa Stevenson, founder of Regina's hot luch program for Aboriginal inner city children, for community development; entrepreneur David Tuccaro, for Business and Commerce; Alika LaFontaine, a 16-year-old pre-med student, in the Youth category, and Dr. Allen Sapp for Lifetime achievement. The gala awards show will be broadcast on CBC on April 13 at 8 p.m.

Grants are available from the Canada Council for the creation, production and dissemination of Native written and spoken literature. The Grants to Individuals are for writers and storytellers and the Project Grants to Publishers and Collectives are for projects from publishing houses, periodicals and collectives. Application deadline is May 15. For more information contact Paul Seesquasis at 1-800-263-5588.