Tag Archives: First Nations
Indigenous group says Trans Mountain bid could be ready next week
CALGARY - An Indigenous-led group says it will soon be ready to make a bid for majority ownership of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline currently owned by the federal government.The group, call...
Jul 03, 2019
Liberals promise $13M for missing, murdered Indigenous women commemorations
OTTAWA - Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef says the federal government will fund more than 100 projects to "honour the lives and legacies" of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Fund...
Jun 24, 2019
City honours National Indigenous Peoples Day
"As long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the river flows," reads the text of Treaty 6, signed in 1876 to represent an accord between the Canadian Crown and various First Nations."Those treaties...
Jun 21, 2019 (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)
Indigenous elders honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award
Two well-respected local Indigenous elders have been given a special honour.Theresa "Corky" Larsen Jonasson and Doreen Bergum received the Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday night at the 2019 Women ...
Jun 20, 2019 Theresa “Corky” Larsen Jonasson (left) and Doreen Bergum (right) were each presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Red Deer & District Community Foundation at the 2019 Women of Excellence Awards held at the Cambridge Red Deer Hotel and Conference Centre Wednesday night.
Red Deer events to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day
Festivities begin Thursday for National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations in Red Deer. The Waskasoo SeePee Traditional Pow Wow at the Servus Arena begins at 1 p.m. and is open to the public. "It's j...
Jun 19, 2019 (Photo: Red Deer Native Friendship Society)
Big day Friday for the Rocky Native Friendship Centre
The Rocky Native Friendship Centre has a big celebration planned for National Indigenous Peoples Day this Friday at Curtis Field.There will be an array of activities including an axe throwing station,...
Jun 19, 2019
Alberta to bring in bill in fall to help First Nations invest in energy projects
EDMONTON - Alberta will bring in legislation this fall to create a Crown corporation backstopped by $1 billion to help First Nations invest in major energy projects like pipelines.Premier Jason Kenney...
Jun 11, 2019
Canada's treatment of Indigenous women not a 'genocide': Andrew Scheer
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says "genocide" isn't the right word to describe what's been done to generations of Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Speaking on Parliament Hill, S...
Jun 10, 2019
Walk for Common Ground urges Albertans to honour treaty responsibilities
A committed group of around 30 people made it to Red Deer Friday, marking the halfway point of a walk from Edmonton to Calgary which urges Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons alike to find what brin...
Jun 08, 2019 Amy Peters (left), Faika Satterthwaite (centre) and Anita Crowshoe are three of about 30 participants in the Walk for Common Ground. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)
Blackfoot and Cree artists finish new mural at St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School
A local Blackfoot artist has once again left his mark in Red Deer, this time inside St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School.Ryan Jason Allen Willert has shared many hours with students there recently, delive...
Jun 07, 2019 Ryan Jason Allen Willert (left) and Blue Quill Cardinal, recently completed a mural at St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School which spans four walls near the school's entrance. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)