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After taking a year off in 2013, the organizers of the 5thAnnual Turtle Awards came back fully excited to recognize Aboriginal achievement in Central Alberta.
鈥淚t鈥檚 really important to me to acknowledge the support of the community. It really is a celebration of Aboriginal people by the community, and this year was all about looking forward,鈥 said Tanya Schur, executive director of the鈥
Over 20 First Nations and non-Aboriginal performers, dancers, musicians and poets are featured in the World Premiere of Making Treaty 7.
Making Treaty 7 world premiere
Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society launched its theatrical presentation at Calgary鈥檚 Heritage Park Historical Village on Sept. 11, 13 and 14. 鈥淲e Are All Treaty People鈥 marks 137 years鈥
鈥淭he difficult was easy, the impossible took a little longer,鈥 said Father Paul Hefferenan in his 1995 eulogy to Canada鈥檚 First Female Indian Act Chief, Elsie Marie Knott of the Curve Lake First Nation in southeastern Ontario. Chief Knott, elected in 1952, who served for eight years in this pioneering role, is the touchstone of Cora Voyageur鈥檚 groundbreaking study of First Nations Women Chiefs鈥
Dance, dance, dance
Dancers were among the offerings from the Aboriginal Pavilion hosted by the Canadian Native Friendship Centre at this year鈥檚 Heritage Festival. Visitors to the annual event were able to steep themselves in culture and Native food, which included bannock, bison bannock burgers, buffalo skewers and mint tea.
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Old Earth Productions, an Aboriginal dramatic collective, is producing plays about social issues, featuring Aboriginal themes and actors.
鈥淥ld Earth Productions utilizes theatre as a tool for creating social change,鈥 said Executive Director Darlene Auger. 鈥淲e are interested in gathering and telling the stories of local Native people, to create public awareness on pressing issues.鈥
鈥More than half of the First Nations in Alberta will not be meeting with the provincial government to discuss the new Aboriginal consultation policy.
鈥淲e want to be clear, this is not about being against resource development. This is about policies that directly affect our First Nations being created for us without meaningful participation. We are leaders, elected officials that govern鈥
Les Cardinal, of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, wrote 鈥淓nough is enough鈥 as his contribution to a mural that has travelled along with a totem pole that was erected at the Beaver Lake Cree Nation in September. The Lummi people, based in Washington State, gifted the totem pole as a symbol of shared responsibility to BLCN on the front lines of the expansion of the Canadian tar sands.鈥
First Nations and M茅tis are not taking lightly the opportunity they have been given to talk to both the National Energy Board and Kinder Morgan representatives. And they want to ensure that neither the NEB nor the pipeline company take their responsibility to listen lightly either.
鈥淪o we see negative impacts of development like this and we have relayed important information to you to鈥
It was 1940, in the dog days of summer, less than a year after the Kikino M茅tis Settlement 鈥 then known as Good Fish Lake Colony Number Seven - was established on March 29, 1939, near Lac La Biche.
鈥淚 remember when we came over those hills on the old trail, and we saw the houses in the hamlet,鈥 said Raymond Bellerose, then a 16 year-old boy traveling with his family. 鈥淭here were鈥
Throughout the months of June, July and August in 2013, Irfan Chaudry, a University of Alberta sociology PhD candidate, tracked tweets in six major cities, including Calgary and Edmonton, and discovered that racism is being expressed through the use of Twitter.
鈥淚n Canada, we sweep it under the rug and don鈥檛 like to talk about it,鈥 he said. 鈥淭witter provides a different avenue to鈥
A new initiative between the Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Municipality of Wood Buffalo, is showing great success in dealing with the stray dog problem in Fort Chipewyan.
A temporary shelter has been set up and an animal control officer was hired to round up the strays, with the intention of getting them back home or finding them new homes.
Cathleen O鈥橞rien is the is the鈥
Alberta Innovates 鈥 Health Solutions will provide a grant of $1.7-million over seven years to University of Lethbridge Faculty of Health Sciences researcher Dr. Cheryl Currie to aid in her research to gain a better understanding of the health needs of rural and urban Aboriginal populations. Currie, an assistant professor of public health, has been selected as the AIHS Translational Health鈥
The Assembly of First Nations National Executive Committee is supporting legal action undertaken by Sucker Creek First Nation, Ermineskin Cree Nation, Kainai Nation and the Tsuu T鈥檌na Nation against the federal government on unsafe drinking water. 鈥淧otable water is a serious issue in Alberta as we cannot even drink water from pumps or natural springs. This situation is unacceptable and must be鈥
The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has pulled out of the regulatory hearing into the proposed $3 billion TransCanada Corp.鈥檚 Grand Rapids crude pipeline. In a news release, Chief Allan Adam cited the 鈥渋mpossible position鈥 the First Nation was put in by the Alberta Energy Regulator, which is holding its first hearing since replacing the Energy Resources Conservation Board. Adam said the AER鈥
The Stoney Nakoda Nation has signed a joint venture agreement with Hong Kong-based Huatong Petrochemical Holdings Ltd. to explore and develop oil and gas deposits on about 49,000 hectares of Stoney Nation lands. Huatong will provide all necessary funding and Nakoda Oil & Gas Inc. will act as the primary operator for the joint venture. 鈥淭he magnitude of this new agreement between Huatong鈥