Congress Takes the Pulse of the Aboriginal Arts Community

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"When I was growing up, my job was to haul wood," she said. "We didn't have electricity for a long time, so to haul wood and get kindling ready for the next day. And part of that was collecting some birchbark ... but one of the things we used to do for the fun of it, because we didn't have a whole bunch of toys or TVs or Nintendos, was we would peel that birchbark and we would make all kinds of designs."

"As Aboriginal people," she said, "we don't realize that that creativity was a form of art."

"We have to be more inclusive of everybody, in particularly the Aboriginal community, because of the very demographics. Ours is a rich culture and we have so much to share, but when you look at our community, we don't have a whole bunch of organizations and a lot of times we don't have that information that that money or grant exists."

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Congress Takes the Pulse of the Aboriginal Arts Community

SASKATOON -- The Saskatchewan Arts Alliance hosted the 2004 Arts Congress in Saskatoon on May 7 and 8 with a variety of guests from the Native community, including Saskatchewan Minister of Culture, Youth and Recreation Joan Beatty and playwright Drew Hayden ...

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