Contributions+of+Aboriginal+People


 * Elder's Meditation of the Day || **//"As we plunge ahead to build empires and race for supremacy we should stop and listen to [the female] song of life. For without the female there is no life."//** || [[image:http://www.whitebison.org/meditation/images/oakfall.gif align="right"]] || --Oren R. Lyons, Spokesman, Traditional Circle of Elders || Women are created with the ability to produce life. Women have a special tie to the Earth Mother. They have something in common. They are the source of life. The Earth Mother gives songs to the Woman to sing. These songs are about life, about beauty, about children, about love, about family, about strength, about caring, about nurturing, about forgiveness, about God. The World needs to pay attention and listen to Her. She knows. ||
 * Role Models**
 * [|First Nations Role Models]**

[|Sasktel Aboriginal Youth Awards of Excellence]

The Aboriginal Youth Video Project involved teaching 12 young people from Richmond, British Columbia, how to create a video story of their experience as young Aboriginal people living in Richmond. The youth were encouraged to reflect on their history and current issues in society, and to include footage and reflections on Richmonds National Aboriginal Day events which celebrate Aboriginal identity. The video is to be used to support teaching about healing and reconciliation. The video is used with permission from the Richmond Youth Services Agency.
 * Creative Endeavors**

media type="youtube" key="gLubBbL6Tdg" height="315" width="420" ALLEN SAPP: HIS STORY Allen Sapp was born in the winter of 1928 on the Red Pheasant Reserve in north central Saskatchewan. He was a weak and sickly child born to a mother who herself had to fight for her life and who eventually died of tuberculosis. Allen was raised and cared for by Maggie Soonias, his grandmother. The memory of this tender relationship has spawned in Sapp some of his finest and most sensitive works, bringing to his canvas a sense of affection and love rarely communicated or seen in the twentieth century art world.

[|Allen Sapp Gallery] [|Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business] [|Aboriginal Business Development in Saskatchewan]
 * Business**