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Dale Auger relaxes in a black leather chair greeting visitors to his art salon in the Western Showcase at the Calgary Stampede in July. He interrupts his interview with Windspeaker [...]

Nanaimo Lawyer Louise Mandell was the first chancellor of Vancouver Island University to have the honor to sit in the seat of Knowledge and Wisdom. When it was unveiled, May [...]

Alejandro promised if I surrendered myself, I would be touched. Considering the day I had had, I was willing to give myself up to anything that would provide relief. I [...]

EDMONTON A frontier town met the final frontier when Edmonton played host to the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards on March 16. This year's 14 award recipients were the stars set [...]

TORONTO 'I think what we have here is something unique and innovative,' said Dan Corbett, president of the National Quality Institute (NQI) about PAR, the Progressive Aboriginal Relations program offered [...]

TORONTO The Progressive Aboriginal Relations program (PAR) began as a germ of an idea in late 1998 and began to take form in the mind of Jocelyne Soularde, president and [...]

TORONTO The business landscape in Canada has changed, and while many companies began to see the writing on the wall two decades ago, others are just waking up to this [...]

TORONTO Can you tell at a glance whether a business has achieved real success in building a relationship with the Aboriginal community? You can now, with the business's use of [...]

When a Liberal like Brian Tobin feels it's OK to tell the National Post about his professed worries about the mental health of Native leaders and feel he's doing the [...]

SCHEFFERVILLE, Que. John Mameamskum of the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach was surprised, 'very surprised,' that his community was nominated for a CANDO Economic Developer Recognition Award for a project that [...]

By Debora Lockyer Steel Windspeaker Staff Writer TSUU T'INA The family and friends of a mother and child killed by an RCMP shotgun blast during a botched child welfare seizure [...]

By Debora Lockyer Steel Windspeaker Staff Writer CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. It doesn't take much to fall head over heels for Campbell River. Though a busy little place, it's not unusual [...]

By Debora Leekyer Steel Windspeaker Staff Writer DUNCAN, B.C. For a young organization like the Khowutzun Development Corporation, recognition for successfully creating jobs in the community is encouraging. So when [...]

By Debera Lockyer Steel Windspeaker Staff Writer ST. ALBERT, Alta. Celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Nechi Training, Research and Health Promotions Institute began with a round dance held [...]

By Debora Lockyer Steel Windspeaker Staff Writer VANCOUVER Trains, planes and automobiles. Throw in a boat and bus ride and you have CANDO's 5th annual national conference held in Vancouver [...]

Debora Lockyer Steel Managing Editor I'm tired of pushing the stack of mail on my desk from one corner to the next. It grows daily and, while there is much [...]

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. The Tseshaht First Nation has responded with 'horror and disgust' to the recent revelation that children of the Alberni Indian Residential School (AIRS) were used for illegal [...]

TSESHAHT FIRST NATION The hereditary chiefs of the Nuu-chah-nulth territories stood together on Jan. 19 and spoke with one voice to send a message to the Department of Fisheries and [...]

Chief Bob Chamberlin of Kwicksutaineuk-Ah-Kwaw-Ah-Mish First Nation (Gilford Island) said people cannot be lulled to sleep by this year's historic returns of sockeye salmon to the Fraser River. In fact, [...]

TSARTLIP FIRST NATION, B.C. John Elliott's father used to say 'It's almost too late, but it's not quite too late. There is still time, if we hurry, if we rush [...]

Windspeaker Contributor PORT ALBERNI, B.C. Donald Raymond Olan turned to face the victims of his pedophilia and offered words of regret, acknowledging that they would not undo the harm that [...]

SAANICH, B.C. Four 15-foot totem poles are now at home at the entrance to the Saanich Peninsula Hospital telling all who enter the facility that this is the territory of [...]

VANCOUVER Don't wait for 'the big home run' or the 'big solution' that will resolve Canada's troubled relationship with Aboriginal people. There are many things on the journey of reconciliation [...]

The tribute evening held July 20 for outgoing national chief Phil Fontaine was filled with good music, fond memories and lots of laughter. Fontaine was set to depart the national [...]

Five began the race, but the first ballot in the July 22 election to choose a new national chief for the Assembly of First Nation (AFN) cleared the field for [...]

Dr. Judith Sayers, chief of the Hupacasath First Nation on Vancouver Island, has been described as highly astute, persuasive and uncompromising. As a leader she defends her community's rights and [...]

VICTORIA Activist Rose Henry of Sliammon has a list of names she keeps close to her heart. On it are the names of the women who have gone missing from [...]

TOFINO On Now. 13, the Premier of British Columbia danced with the children of Tla-o-qui-aht in celebration of a new kind of treaty agreement their leadership had negotiated with the [...]

COWICHAN LAKE, B.C. 'Exhilarating.' That's how She'ee'lum, the chief of the Lake Cowichan First Nation, described the experience of sliding the big slick across the surface of the western red [...]

NANAIMO The waves of support for the KI 6 were lapping at the shores of Vancouver Island April 14 when Malaspina University-College students gathered at a cedar welcome figure on [...]

MORICETOWN, B.C. The Office of the Wet'suwet'en demands the immediate removal of Liberal backbencher MLA Dennis MacKay as a member of the province's Standing Committee on Children and Youth, and [...]

Giselle Martin is as shiny as a new dime. Her dark hair is glossy and smooth. Her smile is wide and bright. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] She laughs easily and often. Martin [...]

Albert David comes from a long line of head-hunters. That fact seems hard to square as he sits, raises his foot above his head, points his toe toward the ceiling [...]

It's taken $180 million, and 15 years of squabbling neighbors, government arm-twisting, cajoling, criticism and just plain hard work, but the Enoch Cree Nation is about to realize a dream [...]

The north wind blew into Toronto on Nov. 25, and riding in on a gust was a huge talent called Tagaq. The Inuit throat-singer took to the stage during the [...]

TORONTO Roberta Jamieson, the new CEO of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, could never be described as a shrinking violet. She's achieved much in her life. She was the first [...]

As children poured out of the big yellow school buses that carried them to the SkyDome Nov. 26, many craned their necks and pointed skyward to the spectacle of the [...]

In a classic case of irony, the community of Kwicksutaineuk First Nation, in which the water is undrinkable and the houses are unlivable, rests on the shores of a place [...]

SASKATOON When people talk about Daleen Kay Bosse (Muskego) they use words like surprised, confused, perplexed and shocked to describe their reaction to her disappearance. When Herb Muskego speaks about [...]

The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation set up shop in Calgary April 4 to pay tribute to 14 accomplished member of the Native community in Canada. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The foundation's annual [...]

The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation marked the 30th anniversary of the fight against logging on Meares Island in the Clayoquot Sound at a gathering in Tofino April 20. On April 21, [...]

Nathaniel Arcand of North of 60 and American Outlaw fame is a busy man. The Edmonton-born actor will be seen in early December in the CTV's Literature Series movie called [...]

Director John Woo's new film Windtalkers is a war film. Let's not be too shy about saying that. Bodies are blown to small bloody bits, bullets and bombs turn human [...]

A BILLON-DOLLAR MINE IN THE PROVINCE'S northwest has been given the go-ahead despite the objections of the Nisga'a Nation where the mine site is located. Avanti Mining Inc. will revive [...]

TORONTO Angela Analok has seen first-hand the challenges of the north when it comes to access to nutritious, affordable food. Her dad's family is from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut and two [...]

HAMILTON, Ont. The organizers of the Canadian Aboriginal Festival have found themselves in a troublesome financial situation. They are not only unable to pay out prize money to the dancers [...]

BELLA COOLA, BC The Nuxalk Nation has signed on to the Coastal Reconciliation Protocol, though the decision is a controversial one in the community, said elected Chief Spencer Siwallace. Any [...]