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		<title>Channeling the Warrior Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chase King says the principle that guides him is simple. “Pretty much all Anishinaabeg people are tough and have a warrior spirit within,” he says from his home in Barrie, Ontario. “This spirit helps me to focus on my training and fight with intelligence, but most of all, with respect.” Originally from the community of Chimnissing (Beausoleil First Nation) on Christian Island, the 19-year-old is a rising force in Ontario’s mixed martial arts circuit. With an amateur fight record of two wins and no losses, King says the disciplines that provide the foundation of the sport keep him grounded and have inspired him to pursue a full-time career within it. “The most I get out of this sport is the exhilarating feeling I get when I train hard,” he says. “Hard work and determination will pay off.” It’s a passion that’s proving contagious and addictive. MMA is widely regarded as the fastest growing sport in North America, but it’s becoming especially popular amongst Indigenous youth across the continent. Gyms in cities like Toronto, Winnipeg, and Regina are seeing more and more First Nations, Metis, and Inuit youth signing up for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai kickboxing classes, among others. King got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of George Armstrong: Aboriginal Players in the NHL Playoffs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Canadian federal election campaign officially in the third period, many of our beloved readers may be looking for another intense race to follow once the votes are in May 2nd. You may also be sick of the campaign by now, or even totally indifferent to it. Either way, the other big show going on in Canada is the NHL playoffs. The two beasts actually already met head-to-head once this month, with the French language debate being moved up a day because it conflicted with Game 1 of the Boston-Montreal series. The first round is just wrapping up, but there&#8217;s still a good month and a half left in this campaign and there&#8217;s a pretty good chance someone Aboriginal will lift the Stanley Cup in early June. One of the best online resources focussing on First Nations, Metis, and Inuit hockey players in the pros and in the minors is NativeHockey.com. We consulted their site for most of the info posted here, but we also did our own unscientific research via Twitter and friends in different hockey circles across the country. There aren&#8217;t many, but there are some marquee players on some pretty powerful squads that may help lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Urban Heartbeat of Mother Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a tribe called red]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The steady beat builds to a booming thump. The bodies on the dance floor writhe along, anticipating the peak. There’s a short beat break, and a half-second later it kicks back in with the wails of a Northern Cree pow wow anthem soaring above the club rhythm. The crowd erupts. This is the Electric Pow Wow at Ottawa’s Babylon nightclub, one of the most popular regular events in the nation’s capital over the past two years. It’s the brainchild of what’s now called A Tribe Called Red &#8211; a collective of four unique and dedicated young Ottawa-based Aboriginal DJs. They are Bear Witness (Ehren Thomas), Dee Jay Frame (Jon Limoges), DJ Shub (Dan General) and Dee Jay NDN (Ian Campeau). Their music is a complex blend of old and new, but Campeau describes it simply as “traditional pow wow music mixed with contemporary dubstep or club music.” “We wanted to showcase to the Native population that there were Native DJs in Ottawa and we were doing something positive and fun,” says Campeau, on how the movement started. It went from a bi-monthly club party to a touring showcase. “After the first one went so well, we kept throwing them and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NDN LOL: The Insights of Comedian Ryan McMahon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s anything that helps people emerge from a shared struggle, it&#8217;s shared laughter. Despite the hardships many Aboriginal people across Turtle Island have endured, they&#8217;ve been able to maintain an infallible sense of humour: one that&#8217;s evolved from timeless trickster stories into standup comedy and television shows, among other methods and media. Ryan McMahon is one of those contemporary storytellers who&#8217;s made it his life&#8217;s mission to make our people laugh, and to teach those from other backgrounds about us (and make them laugh too). McMahon grew up in Fort Frances, ON, and broke into the contemporary comedy and theatre scene in Toronto in the late 1990s. His home base is now Winnipeg. He tours across the continent and is widely respected as one of the funniest contemporary comedians/writers/actors, and he&#8217;s deeply proud of his Ojibway/Metis background. Oh yeah, and then there&#8217;s that Clarence guy. We caught up with McMahon on a recent tour date in Minnesota. * * * Why is comedy so important to Aboriginal people? I think it&#8217;s inter-woven into our world view and cultural identities. A lot of our teachings, stories, legends have a trickster character &#8220;acting a fool&#8221; to show us what not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(brief) Recap: 2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[imagineNATIVE was always my favourite Toronto festival and I went every year from its inception up until I left the city for the Prairies in 2006. As a young aspiring journalist/visual storyteller, the films I saw and the people I met inspired me to try to carve my own path in the field. That path led me to Winnipeg where I attended other outstanding multimedia events like the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival. But when I returned to Ontario this year I was thrilled that I&#8217;d be able to attend imagineNATIVE once again. It was a quick trip. I left Ottawa after work on Friday, got to Toronto quite late, and went back late Sunday. When I got to the main venue (Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre) early Saturday afternoon, the vibe was electric. Some of the best Aboriginal filmmakers and aficionados from around the world were buzzing about, lining up early for each showcase. Seeing that, I was disappointed that I couldn&#8217;t make it for any of the programming in the days prior. Nonetheless, I checked out a few shorts in the media room &#8211; namely Unreserved: The Work of Louie Gong by Tracy Rector and Tashina by Caroline Monnet. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: &#8216;Dreamland&#8217; at imagineNATIVE 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/waubgeshig-rice/arts-and-culture/imaginenative-review-dreamland</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dreamland 123 min &#124; 2010 &#124; Australia Written &#38; Directed by Ivan Sen. Starring Daniel Roberts and Tasma Walton Screens at imagineNATIVE, Thursday Oct. 21 @ 5 PM, Al Green Theatre (Bloor &#38; Spadina) MI Rating: ★★★ ————————— ◊ ————————— &#8216;The truth is out there.&#8217; It was Agent Fox Mulder&#8217;s decree in the classic sci-fi television series The X Files. And in Ivan Sen&#8217;s new film Dreamland, it&#8217;s protagonist Dan Freeman&#8217;s obsession. But this modern truth-seeker couldn&#8217;t be more of an anti-Mulder. He cruises the highways, deserts and dying towns surrounding Nevada&#8217;s infamous Area 51 in hopes of catching a glimpse of extraterrestrial action or even a shred of evidence. Armed with only binoculars, a radio scanner, a sketchpad and a beat-up SUV, he jumps at every little flash of light and unusual sound. He&#8217;s on a quest to see something, but, as the story progresses, becomes increasingly aware of the supernatural around him. The film is shot entirely in black and white, giving it a vintage feel of the classic alien/UFO films of the 1950s. The landscape is stunning, as are the vast starry nightscapes. Other than opening and closing monologues, there&#8217;s virtually no dialogue. We get to know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aboriginal Nominees for Gemini Awards in Canadian TV excellence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall the Gemini Awards will honour the best in Canadian English-language television, and a handful of Aboriginal nominees are competing for some pretty significant hardware in the Program and Performance categories. Neil Diamond&#8217;s remarkable documentary Reel Injun is up for Best Social/Political Documentary Program. Don Kelly, host of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network&#8216;s Fish Out of Water, is nominated in the Best Host or Interviewer in a General/Human Interest or Talk Program or Series category. In fact, quite a few Aboriginal productions that garnered nods come from APTN, including Wapos Bay for Best Animated Program or Series, and Down the Mighty River for Best Documentary Series. On the news front, CBC Manitoba&#8216;s Sheila North-Wilson is also up for Best Breaking Reportage, Local, for her ongoing coverage of the &#8220;Homeless Hero&#8221; story that captivated the country in the spring of 2009, when Faron Hall rescued a teenager who fell off a Winnipeg bridge into the Red River. &#8220;It truly feels amazing to be nominated,&#8221; says North-Wilson from her Winnipeg home. &#8220;Especially because I wasn&#8217;t expecting to when I did the stories. I am proud of the stories I did on Faron but I surely wasn&#8217;t thinking about the Geminis while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Status Card and Ontario’s New HST</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chat with the Grand Council Chief of the Union of Ontario Indians On July 1, 2010, the province of Ontario implemented the Harmonized Sales Tax, combining the 8% Provincial Sales Tax and the 5% Goods and Services Tax for a single rate of 13 per cent at point of purchase. The new tax affects a number of goods and services, but most Ontarians won&#8217;t notice much of a difference when paying at the till. Ontario&#8217;s First Nations, however, have been adamantly opposed to the HST since the province announced it. Up until now, Aboriginal people with status could show their cards at the point of purchase to be exempt from paying the eight per cent PST. It&#8217;s widely seen as one of the few rights Aboriginal Ontarians can freely exercise in urban settings on a daily basis. So when the HST appeared to jeopardize that right, First Nations across the province rallied against it in towns and cities. That grassroots and political opposition paid off. Last month Ontario announced status Indians would maintain immediate PST exemption when paying for goods and services &#8211; a small victory for people with status cards. Perhaps the most outspoken political organization against the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Art Transcends Controversy: the Norval Morrisseau Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even in death, the saga of legendary Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau has been embroiled in dispute. It began shortly after he died in December of 2007, when his seven children battled with his former handler and business manager to have his remains buried next to their mother in Keewaywin, Ontario instead of cremated. Now, his children are filing a lawsuit against the same man — Gabor Michael Vadas — over the execution of his will. They believe the will was created under suspicious circumstances given Morrisseau&#8217;s weak physical and mental state in the years up to his death and they want the rights to his name and images. While it ultimately makes sense for his family to preserve his artistic and cultural legacy, Morrisseau&#8217;s art itself continues to shine immortal despite these controversies. Even in an often troubled life, his paintings captured Anishinaabe traditions in a truly unique way that we will continue to learn from for generations to come. Most Canadians are familiar with his incomparable images. What started as more rustic and stripped-down interpretations of Anishinaabe life and culture blossomed into vibrant, epic pieces that are as just as recognizable to people who aren&#8217;t art aficionados. He created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fastest-growing population also the fastest to die</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/waubgeshig-rice/living/fastest-growing-population-also-the-fastest-to-die</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LIVING]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Nations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing new study coming out of the Journal of Rural Health shows that the infant mortality rate in Manitoba is twice the Canadian average. Led by University of Montreal researcher Zhong-Cheng Luo, the study looked at 25,000 Aboriginal births and 125,000 non-Aboriginal births. According to the study&#8217;s abstract, researchers divided the births into four different degrees of isolation from urban centres. In the most isolated groups, infant mortality was almost 11 per 1,000 live births for Aboriginal people, while it was a little more than seven for non-Aboriginal births. The non-Aboriginal group fared better closer to urban centres, with an infant mortality rate of less than five per 1,000, while the rate for Aboriginal women still hovered around 10. The study concludes: Living in less isolated areas was associated with lower infant mortality only among non-First Nations. First Nations infants do not seem to have similarly benefited from the better health care facilities in urban centers, suggesting a need to improve urban First Nations&#8217; infant care in meeting the challenges of increasing urban migration. Dr. Luo told the Canadian Press &#8220;The general conclusion is the same: we need to improve the access to quality prenatal care for First Nations.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A half-century of the Aboriginal vote</title>
		<link>http://www.mediaindigena.com/waubgeshig-rice/issues-and-politics/a-half-century-of-the-aboriginal-vote</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aboriginal Canadians have been allowed to vote in federal elections for 50 years now. But who&#8217;s voting? It was the fall of 1993 and the Canadian federal election campaign was heating up. I was in Grade 10, and one of my history assignments was to poll people in my community about the parties they were leaning towards. I spent an evening calling about 30 friends and family of voting age, and as expected, not even half planned on voting. I brought the results back to my history teacher the next day, who was shocked and appalled by the apparent &#8220;complacence&#8221; of people on my rez. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to say this,&#8221; he asked me in front of the rest of the class, slight condescension in his tone, &#8220;but are people in your community, um&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Dumb?!&#8221; piped up one of my non-Aboriginal classmates from the back of the room. I politely reminded them both that for the most part, First Nations people had never really felt part of Canada in the first place, and that&#8217;s why something like Oka happened just a few years earlier. I said you can&#8217;t blame Aboriginal people for not voting if the process or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama shares the wealth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of the most controversial announcements to ever come out of the Nobel Foundation, U.S. president Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. Peace advocates questioned the selection, given the American military presence in many conflicts around the globe. Obama accepted it humbly, and vowed to donate the $1.4 million dollar prize to goodwill. This week he finally announced what he&#8217;d spend it on, and the breakdown is as follows: $250,000 to Fisher House, which provides housing for families of patients receiving medical care at military and veterans hospitals $200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, which raises funds for long-term relief efforts in Haiti $125,000 to College Summit, an organization dedicated to increasing college enrolment rates $125,000 to the Posse Foundation, which provides scholarships for public high-school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes $125,000 to the United Negro College Fund, which enables more than 60,000 students each year to attend college through scholarship and internship programs $125,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the leading Hispanic scholarship organization in the United States $125,000 to the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation, which provides scholarships so young men and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beat Goes On: the 2010 Aboriginal JUNO nominees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the annual JUNO Awards announced its list of nominees competing for honours as the best in Canadian music in 39 categories. As in any awards presentation on this scale, the subjective &#8220;best&#8221; label lies in the hands of a number of judges, and the JUNOs has 330 of them. We can argue until the bears come out of hibernation about the merits of awards like this — when artistic achievement and mainstream appeal go head to head — but I&#8217;ll keep this to a snapshot of the nominees in the Aboriginal category. Digging Roots Heartfelt and powerful roots-rock, infused with a barrage of genres including blues, funk, and hip hop. We Are was my favourite album of 2009, so naturally I&#8217;m picking them as a lock to take home the JUNO. Raven and Shoshonna play their music with a commanding passion seen in few other bands out there today. Lucie Idlout She&#8217;s been a staple on the Canadian Aboriginal music scene for much of the last decade and her latest album Swagger proves why. She can rock and she can serenade &#8211; skills that give her such an epic stage presence live. Her voice draws on the rich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Native-themed mascots still ruffling feathers off the field</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the eyes of the sporting world are focused on Vancouver as the Winter Olympics pick up speed, the Vancouver School Board has passed an interesting motion urging school districts across British Columbia to ban sports mascots that promote Aboriginal stereotypes. The trustee who introduced it cited a statement from a continent-wide movement to kill such mascots that &#8220;trivialize and humiliate&#8221; Aboriginal cultures and experiences: It explained that in some cases the sacred practice of becoming a warrior is associated with high school pep rallies or royalty in homecoming pageants, which carry racial overtones of &#8220;playing Indian&#8221; at high school events. It also criticized using native dress, tomahawks, feathers, face paints and symbolic drums and pipes inappropriately and using generic names such as Indians, Braves or Chiefs or specific tribal names. This movement isn&#8217;t new, and it may be an attempt by the Vancouver School Board to foster good public relations at a time when Aboriginal people across the country are debating the validity of the Olympics taking place on traditional territory. But it&#8217;s clearly still an issue that divides fans and schools, and worse, offends Aboriginal people on a lot of levels in many cases. There&#8217;s a substantial list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to the dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubgeshig Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On some reserves, they&#8217;re on the verge of taking over. They roam in packs, hunting indiscriminately and reproducing quickly and heedlessly. They threaten the safety of young and old alike and even challenge social order. Dogs have become almost like a new class of citizens in many First Nations communities across Canada. On a daily basis, they&#8217;re largely ignored, and if they&#8217;re acknowledged, they&#8217;re the butt of jokes. That is, until they prove how deadly they can be, as we sadly saw in a northern Saskatchewan community last week. A wild pack of rez dogs ripped apart helpless 10-year-old Keith Iron. They were so hungry and relentless he didn&#8217;t stand a chance. It&#8217;s a tragedy that&#8217;s struck a nerve across the country, and with his family calling for some kind of control, it&#8217;s up to communities and governments to finally take rez dogs way more seriously. As with any tragedy in an isolated Aboriginal community, the media rushed in to flip the switch on the spotlight. Although Keith&#8217;s not the first child to die at the teeth of hungry rez dogs (dogs have killed at least five kids on reserves in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba since 2006), much of the [...]]]></description>
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