Knowledge Keeper Doreen Starr – An Acahkos Angel
By Dale Ladouceur, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Knowledge Keeper Doreen Starr is a soft-spoken angel. Describing the elder this way may cause her…
Role Models
Feature artist for February 2021: Jesse Gouchey
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The art on the cover of this month’s Alberta Native News is by Jesse Gouchey, a…
Louise Bernice Halfe is appointed Canada’s Parliamentary Poet
by Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Renowned writer Sky Dancer, otherwise known as Louise Bernice Halfe, is Canada’s ninth parliamentary poet laureate….
Attention Métis students – BBMA application deadline is March 31
By Theresa Majeran (ANNews) – If you are a serious student of Métis ancestry who needs financial assistance for tuition in order to complete your…
Elder Tom Snow – A healing journey
By Dale Ladouceur, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – I first met Elder Snow a few years ago, jumping at the chance to go Sweetgrass…
Saddle Lake woman to compete in Miss Canada Pageant
by Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Laramey Cardinal, a 21-year-old Indigenous woman from Saddle Lake Cree Nation, has been selected to compete…
Darin Ladouceur’s journey from music to medicine – with good intent
By Dale Ladouceur, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Medicines that have been gifted to us from Creator can be elusive to those who do…
Artist MJ Belcourt-Moses influences communities through her passion, skills and porcupine quills
By Laura Mushumanski (ANNews) – Around the world when we hear the name MJ we think of Michael Jordan, but in the nehiyawak world where…
Young men from Saddle Lake Cree Nation join Edmonton Huskies
(ANNews) – Owen Brest (19) and Kiseyotin White (17), two young Indigenous men from Saddle Lake, have joined the Edmonton Huskies of the Canadian Junior…
Indigenous rights advocates continue to celebrate their sâkihitowin (love) after 73 years of marriage
By Laura Mushumanski (ANNews) – Seventy-three years ago, when marriages were arranged, Elmer Carlson went outside cultural norms and chose to marry a woman that…