On February 3, 2007, the Flames made history by having young Cree singer Akina Shirt perform "O Canada" in Woodlands Cree, the first time the national anthem had ever been performed in an Aboriginal language at a major league sporting event.
First Nations, Treaty 6, 7 and 8 have also connected 157 education facilities, 95 schools and 44 federal health care facilities.
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) which emerged from and replaced the Canadian National Indian Brotherhood is an assembly of First Nations represented by their chiefs.
Beaver River sandstone is a rock material locally found in northern Alberta, Canada, that was extensively used by First Nations people in prehistoric times to make tools with a sharp edge.
The deer are food source for wolves and cougars, as well as First Nations and other hunters.
The winter of 1819-1820 was a harsh one, and ominously, the local Indians who came to the post for supplies reported that game had become so scarce that some families were resorting to cannibalism to survive.
Although not without conflict, the Caribbean's early interactions with First Nations and indigenous populations were relatively short lived, compared to the experience of native peoples in the United States.
The Eastern Agricultural Complex describes the agricultural practices of the pre-historic Eastern Woodland Native Americans in the eastern United States and the First Nations in Canada.
Fisher River (Ochekwi-Sipi) is a Cree First Nations reserve located approximately 193 km north of Manitoba's capital city, Winnipeg.
The collection contains an outstanding selection of landscape painting, a renowned Canadian prints collection including works from Walter J. Phillips and modernist printmaker Sybil Andrews, First Nations and Inuit Art, American illustration, and wildlife Art.
Spry's comparison of the loss of the commons in England to the end of First Nations' communal rights, in particular, would echo much subsequent research on private intellectual property in contradistinction to communal resources.
MV Nicola, (A.K.A. Spirit of Lax Kw' Alaams) owned by BC Ferries, but operated by Lax Kw'alaams First Nations.
First Nations, a term of ethnicity that refers to the indigenous peoples in what is now Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis people
Previously, the statue also featured a kneeling First Nations (Anishinabe) scout, added in 1918 to "signify how the native people helped Champlain navigate through the waters of the Ottawa River", but this has been relocated to nearby Major's Hill Park.
# 26 February 1975: "David and Bert" (Peter Jones producer; Daryl Duke director), featuring the friendship between David Frank and Bert Clayton, the former a First Nations chief and the latter a prospector
Today, the Seabird Island First Nations Festival is a celebration of First Nations diversity, culture, growth and First Nations sport talent.
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The Seabird Island Band is governed by one Chief and an eight-person Council that share the responsibility of representing Seabird Island Band at all government levels as well as to other groups, ensuring a strong united voice for the Seabird Island Band locally, provincially and nationally, with specific emphasis and involvement with Stó:lō Tribal Council, First Nation Summit and the Assembly of First Nations.
The Sto:lo Nation is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Fraser Valley region of the Canadian province of British Columbia that is the tribal council for First Nations band governments in the area of Chilliwack, Abbotsford and at Nicomen Island.
The Stó:lō Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Fraser Valley-Greater Vancouver region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Music for the series was composed by Robbie Robertson in collaboration with other Native American and Canadian First Nations musicians, including Ulali, Rita Coolidge, Douglas Spotted Eagle and Kashtin, and was released on the album Music for The Native Americans.
"Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album Many a Mile by Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Apparently even in First Nations lore its existence was spoken of only vaguely, as a possibility, and it seems unlikely the core of the massif was penetrated by any First Nations adventurer given the tremendous difficulty posed even for mountaineers equipped with modern outdoor gear.
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Aert Hendrik Kuipers (born 1919 in the former village of Oostkapelle, Zeeland, Netherlands) is a linguistics professor who, from his pioneering field work among First Nations people of British Columbia during the 1950s, compiled the first detailed reference grammars of Squamish and Shuswap, two almost extinct Salishan languages now being revived.
It was first constituted on March 22, 1997 and was composed of the regional organizations: Jatun Quillakas Asanajaqis, J'acha Carangas, Charka Qhara Qhara, First Nations' Council of Potosi's Ayllus, Qhara Qhara, Ayllus of Cochabamba, Jach'a Suyu Pakajak'i, Urus, Saoras-Chuwis, and Kallawayas.
In June 2008 MP Pat Martin introduced a motion into the House of Commons calling on the government to amend the coat of arms to incorporate symbols representing Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
In 2010, Stewart won an AMPIA Award for her documentary "Journey to Jamaica", a story that followed a group of First Nations cadets from Hobbema, Alberta on an exchange that took them to the slums of Spanish Town, Jamaica.
In June 2008, MP Pat Martin introduced a motion into the House of Commons calling on the government to amend the coat of arms to incorporate symbols representing Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
Capilano University scholarships for Aboriginal, First Nations and Métis students include: Bank of Montreal Award for Business Leadership; Irene June Wealick Memorial Award; HSBC Bank Canada Aboriginal Bursary; BC Aboriginal Student Award.
The Iroquois League, historically the Iroquois Confederacy, is a group of Native Americans (in what is now the United States) and First Nations (in what is now Canada) that consists of six nations: the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Seneca and the Tuscarora.
Besides these regional generalities, traditions vary among different ethnic and religious communities, such as First Nations (aboriginal), Anabaptist, or historic immigrant settlements.
Prior to entering electoral politics, Rickford worked as a nurse and lawyer in the remote First Nations communities of the Kenora District.
Henri Membertou (died 18 September 1611) was the sakmow (Grand Chief) of the Mi'kmaq First Nations tribe situated near Port Royal, site of the first French settlement in Acadia, present-day Nova Scotia, Canada.
Mark Brian, a young vicar, is sent to the First Nations village of Kingcome in British Columbia, home to people of the Kwakwaka'wakw nation (who are given the now-archaic name “Kwakiutl” in the book).
Published in 1941, the book describes, through short sketches, the artist's experiences among First Nations people and culture on British Columbia's west coast.
She lived in Canada for a number of years in the 1980s and 1990s, getting involved in First Nations activism and studying social work at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.
NAHO defined "Aboriginal Peoples" using the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982, sections 25 and 35, to consist of three groups – Indian (First Nations), Inuit, and Métis.
The Oregon Jack Creek Band is a First Nations government in the Thompson Canyon area of the Southern Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Primrose Adams (b. 1926 in Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands) is a Canadian First Nations artist from the Haida nation.
Quamichan (or Kw’amutsun) is a traditional nation of the Coast Salish people, commonly referred to by the English adaptation of Qu'wutsun as the Cowichan Indians, or First Nations, of the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, in the area of the city of Duncan, British Columbia.
In 1861, Colonel Richard Moody made the first modern attempt to break through the thick forests that covered the areas now known as Renfrew–Collingwood, building a military trail on the route of an ancient First Nations trail that led from New Westminster to English Bay.
The Commission of Inquiry investigate the evolution of the relationship among aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Métis), the Government of Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and part of the Culture of Canada as a whole.
It describes itself as an academic publisher with "core subject disciplines of Middle Eastern Studies, Theology & Religion and History" and additional publishing ventures in other subject categories such as "Latin American Studies, First Nations and the Colonial Encounter, Spanish History and Asian Studies."
In "Crooked Beak of Heaven", Attenborough discusses the art and cultures of the First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America: The Haida of present-day British Columbia and Alaska; the Gitxsan of Skeena Country; and the Kwakwaka'wakw ("Kwakiutl") of present-day British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
A Tribal Council is either: (1) a First Nations government in Canada or, an association of Native American bands in the United States; or, (2) the governing body for certain tribes within the United States or elsewhere (since ancient times).
The racial make up of Virden is mostly Caucasian (92.0%), with a moderate Aboriginal population (5.5%); First Nations (2.0%), Métis (3.5%), and a small visible minority population (2.7%), most of which are Filipino (2.0%) or multiracial (0.5%).