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First prize in the two age groups is $2,000 and a trip to Calgary to attend the Awards Ceremony. This years first place stories are "Unmasked" by Nigel Grenier aged 14 from North Vancouver B.C. a member of the Gitwangak Aboriginal Community and the play "Notay Kiskintamowin (Wanting to Know)" by Shaneen Robinson of Winnipeg Manitoba from the Cree and Gitxsan Nations.
Grenier is very proud of being able to tell his story as it is based on the legend of Waydetai, a story of oral tradition in the Gitksan Nation. He feels "very blessed with cultural wealth." Being involved in a dance group, his family is "living their culture.
Among the finalists is Ashley Kagige (which means "forever" in Ojibway) aged 18 from Scarborough Ontario, a member of the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve.
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... as a police officer on the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island . In October 1...
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... is teaming up with the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on a unique venture that will bring...
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... federal government promised to provide reserves with water and sanitation services comparable to s...(36) In 1991, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) committed to ac... of natural resources from our unceded traditional Territory, the Lubicon people face sev...
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... as a police officer on the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island . In October 1...
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... of All Other Members of the Gitlakdamix Indian Band, and Maurice Nyce et al., suing on their own ... trusteeship and management of the lands reserved for their use and benefit, were assumed by the Dom...or unceded Indian country, .. is a matter of little moment .....
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... as a police officer on the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island , as an employ...
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... of all other members of the Squamish Indian Band and the SQUAMISH INDIAN BAND. PLAINTIFFS and ... PART II - THE COLONIAL RESERVE ALLOCATION: 1869 PART III - THE JOINT I... bar this claim would be to extinguish the unceded unsurrendered treaty-protected aboriginal title of...
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In my circles, I don't really know [Tom Porter], who is one of the Mohawk teachers, but the fact that I could call him and just say, 'I got your number and name from [Sylvia Maracle] and she thought you'd be a good person for me to talk to about this project we want to do.' Well, it was funny. Tom said, 'Well, if you're talking to people like Sylvia Maracle you're moving in some pretty good circles, so you know, I'll talk to you.' I can trust you, is basically what he was saying," she explained.
"She asked us to spend some time on doing the vision quest on Dreamer's Rock, she did a sweat ceremony, she did a pipe ceremony," [Wemigwans] recalled. "She said that many times people have come and asked her to do this and she's smoked her pipe and talked to her pipe and said no. But this time...
...Although she is a status Indian from Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve in Ontario...
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...Labrador, which consists entirely of unceded Indigenous land, has been neglected by governments... responsibility for First Nations reserves. But in 2001, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada a...