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CONTEST ALERT
We got three pairs of tickets for A Tribe Called Red at the Pyramid Cabaret on Tuesday, June 19, 2012.

We’ll draw for one pair on the following dates:
Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 6pm CST
Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 6pm CST
Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 6pm CST

Simply sign up for our enewsletter to enter the contest (by enterting your email address below and clicking “Subscribe”). We’ll email each of the winners immediately after each draw is completed.

Please note that you must be at least 18-years-old and have valid photo ID to attend the concert.

CONTEST RULES
1. Only new enewsletter subscribers will be eligible for this contest.
2. You must enter a valid email address to be eligible.
3. The contest begins May 16, 2012 at 12pm CST and ends on June 7, 2012 at 6pm CST.
4. You can only win one pair of tickets.
5.  If you enter the contest before the May 24 draw and don’t win, your email will remain in the May 31 and June 7 draws, so you have three chances to win if you enter early.
6. If you win, you must pick up your tickets by June 14, 2012 or they will be donated to someone else. 

CONCERT DETAILS
TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival…
A Tribe Called Red
w/ Phil Houseley & DJ Voth
Presented by Aboriginal Music Week
DATE: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
TIME: 10pm - 2am
VENUE: The Pyramid Cabaret, 176 Fort Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
TICKETS: $18 advance, $20 at the door
18+ | ID Required

Visit jazzwinnipeg.com for more info about the concert.

Alfred: The biggest challenge today is maintaining our sense of identity and spiritual strength in the wake of the near total loss of our homeland to settler peoples.

It is extremely difficult for any people to survive if they cannot practice their culture on their land and when they are persecuted for doing so as we are in Canada. For nationhood, for cultural survival, for human rights, for prosperity and independence … it’s all about the land, and always has been.

Palmater: They must understand that the treaties and promises made to indigenous peoples in what is now known as Canada are commitments their representatives made directly on behalf of the Crown.

Devolving those legal, political and moral obligations to the state of Canada was a unilateral decision. In so doing, the Crown broke the spirit and intent of those treaties.

AFN Chief Shawn Atleo and Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a Crown/First Nations gathering in Ottawa in January 2012. (Sean Kilpatrick / Canadian Press)

The fact that the [British] Privy Council ruled that Canada would assume all of the obligations of the Crown with regards to treaties is of no comfort given Canada’s gross neglect of that duty and the horrific conditions in which many indigenous peoples must live.

Respectfully, the Crown has a duty to address the fact that Canada did not live up to the obligations it inherited from the Crown — especially since indigenous peoples never agreed to the devolution.

Atleo: The way forward in achieving fundamental change for First Nations in Canada must involve a return to the original relationship agreed to in the treaties. This continues to be the way forward — implementing these relationships and ensuring respect and mutual partnerships.

The continued failure to move forward in this way has and continues to have devastating consequences for our territories and our peoples who face the worst socio-economic conditions of any group in Canadian society. Our work today is about renewing the vision of all our ancestors to achieve a better day for First Nations and Canadians.

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OTTAWA - The Harper government is trying to block the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal from hearing a retired aboriginal Mountie’s complaints about the alleged discrimination and harassment he faced over the course of his long RCMP career.

Scientists are turning to genetics to see if they can prove the existence of the elusive hairy humanoid known across the world as bigfoot, yeti and sasquatch.

A joint project between Oxford University and Switzerland’s Lausanne Museum of Zoology will examine organic remains that some say belong to the creature that has been spotted in remote areas for decades.

ABORIGINAL elders have returned to the ruins of their childhood homes at an abandoned mission in remote South Australia to end a 14-year native title battle over a vast area incorporating Lake Eyre.

WINDSOR, Ont. — Imagine being taken away from your family by strangers at four years old and being told you would never see them again. Imagine not being able to speak the only language you ever knew, but rather a new and unfamiliar one. Imagine being separated from your siblings and brought to a school where you would not only learn, but live. And imagine being brutally beaten when you tried to escape to return back home.

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