Archive - 1999 - Content

Ringo Fiddler was filling his gas tank in Round Lake when he heard the shouting.

An unsigned letter sent to the Mishkeegogamang band office is hate literature under the criminal code, according to Pickle Lake O.P.P.

On Feb. 11, in the Media Room of the Ontario Legislative Assembly in Toronto, Mushkegowuk Council officially announced their legal challenge to the Ontario Works Act, 1997 (Workfare).

While the announcement of a national Aboriginal television network broke new ground in the industry last month, there is still much ground work to be done before the airwaves crackle with Aboriginal content this September.

The metal sculptures that guard the entrance to the Thunder Bay Art Gallery were done by First Nations artist Ahmoo Angeconeb in 1995.

According to statistics, Debbie Chrisjohn should be divorced and living below the poverty line.

When it comes to language, Wawatay Aboriginal-language translator Christina Keesic would like the chance to raise her children again.

For the Sioux Lookout Out of the Cold program, volunteers have often been more difficult to come by than money.

Like all religions, it is said that everything has a time and purpose. In Native spirituality though, that statement is a given.

All forestry activities in the Nakina and Ogoki Forests will cease at the end of the month if First Nations and the Buchanan Group don't resume mediation, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Now that students in Sandy Lake are back to full days of study, the administrators are trying to figure out how to add 27 days to the year.

Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart applauded the anticipated business partnerships between Red Lake entrepreneurs and their First Nations neighbours during a visit to the community on Feb 27.

Signs of the Northern Bands Hockey Tournament maturity can be seen in more than just it's 20th anniversary banner this year.

Five years ago the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Tribal Council (Northern Chiefs) had a dream to provide telecommunications to their communities.

The brother of a man killed in a house fire in Constance Lake is upset by the way police handled security at the scene.