National Aboriginal
Achievement Awards
COVER:
Thomas
Prince
Canada's
Forgotten Aboriginal War Hero
NATIONAL ABORIGINAL
ACHIEVMENT AWARDS:
Dr. Freda Ahenakew
Mariano Aupilardjuk
Roman
Bittman
Dr Harold Cardinal
Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe
Tomson Highway
Fred House
Zacharias Kunuk
Richard Nerysoo
Lance Relland
Nicholas Sibbeston
Mary Thomas
Dolly Watts
BUSINESS:
Bankers Call Shots
A bank is calling the
financial shots on one of Manitoba's largest First Nations
CULTURE:
Debate
Rages Over Native Alcoholism
Gwishalaayt
The Spirit
Wraps Around You
EDUCATION:
Agreement Solidifies Ties Between Valley Schools and First Nations
Education Critical to Moving Forward
Education is Failing Aboriginal Students
MODERN TREATIES:
Atlantic
Chiefs Demand Action on Template Agreements
...the
Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs are demanding a meeting
with DFO minister Herb Dhaliwa...
Cash-strapped Tribal Police Winding Down Operations
First Nations communities
in Cape Breton will no longer be policed by their own...
HUMOUR:
Support Your Local Native
OBITUARY:
Chief Simon Baker
POLITICS:
One
Dead Indian
Referendum
Circus Coming Soon to Your Town
20,000 Survivors of Residential Schools to Seek Compensation
Dr. Lindsay
Crowshoe
Medicine
To
many in the remotest of Alberta's fly-in Aboriginal communities, Lindsay
Crowshoe is the doctor with the guitar. Others say he is first and foremost
a good doctor.
To Daniel Cutknife, however, a boy challenged by the effects of Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome, Crowshoe is "the greatest," and his "number one hero."
All these descriptions are more than fitting when telling the inspirational
story that is the life of Dr. Crowshoe. Now 32, this member of the Peigan
First Nation has already blazed an epic trail. A medical doctor who provides
clinical, emergency and hospital services in a rural Alberta, he also
makes fly-in visits to other towns and villages not accessible by road.
Dr. Crowshoe is also an expert advisor on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome who makes
his expertise widely available across North America.
In between these visits, you're more than likely to find him leading educational
workshops for Aboriginal youth in any school found along his path. When
travelling, Dr. Crowshoe packs much more than a stethoscope.
An accomplished guitarist - one of his recordings placed number six on
the Canadian country charts - his guitar goes with him. Dr. Crowshoe has
brought out his guitar and broken the ice in many communities when he
becomes the singing doctor.
He's also an author who has written a history of the Métis people. And
if that wasn't enough, Dr. Crowshoe is a scholarship winning athlete who
helped the University of Calgary Dinosaurs football team win the Vanier
Cup in 1988.