Alberta Native Friendship Centres host an amazing Youth and Elders Gathering in Jasper
By Terry Lusty (ANNews) – Twenty-two years have passed since its origins in 1997, and the annual Youth and Elders Gathering at the Palisades Centre…
Culture
Men of Spirit (Carl Ray + Joseph Sanchez) exhibit featured at Bearclaw Gallery in YEG: Sept. 21 – Oct 2
(September 2019) – The extraordinary image that appears on the cover of this month’s Alberta Native News is a detail of Thunderbird Transformation by Carl…
Author Darrel J. McLeod is a finalist for the 2019 Butler Book Prize
(September 2019) – Douglas & McIntyre is pleased to announce that Darrel J. McLeod and his first book, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age, have been…
Two-Spirit couple from Alberta wins The Amazing Race Canada
(September 2019) – After travelling across six provinces, one territory, 14 cities, and more than 20,000 kilometres, two-spirit married couple Anthony and James, from amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton,…
Historic National Gathering of Elders facing a funding shortfall
(September 11, 2019 Winnipeg, Manitoba in the Treaty 1 Territory) – Canadian Indigenous and non-Indigenous people arrived in Winnipeg, Manitoba in thousands from all directions…
Live at the Winspear presents Buffy Sainte-Marie
Edmonton, AB – Live at the Winspear presents Canadian icon, activist, and multi award winning performer Buffy Sainte-Marie on September 20, 2019. Don’t miss this…
Supporting Indigenous languages in Southern Alberta
(Calgary) – The Government of Canada is investing more than $1.5 million over two years in Indigenous languages in Calgary and the surrounding areas. This…
Conservation groups applaud federal support of Indigenous land-use visions in Clayoquot sound
(August 2019) – Members of the Clayoquot Sound Conservation Alliance (CSCA) are congratulating the Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations for securing a key federal commitment…
Feature artist for August 2019: James Black
(ANNews) – The beautiful image on the cover of this month’s Alberta Native News is a detail from a painting by James Black, a talented…
Xavier Kataquapit: For the love of language
by Xavier Kataquapit (August 20, 2019) – Most of the time we take the language we speak for granted. We were brought up speaking one…