More Than 78 Teams, 1300 Students Complete Assembly of First Nations Fitness Challenge

More than 78 teams and 1300 students completed an AFN Fitness Challenge aimed at raising awareness about the positive relationship between diabetes and healthy living.
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Living the Olympic dream

What a story Aronhiaies Herne is telling the children at the Boys and Girls Club of Akwesasne - and it's about to get even better.
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Dene Games Athletes Announced for 2010 Winter Games Showcase

Eight Dene Games athletes, two coaches and two Dene Games alternate athletes have been selected to help showcase the Northwest Territories (NWT) at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
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Minister of State Lunn and Minister Aglukkaq Take Part in an Olympic Torch Relay Community Celebration in Iqaluit

The 2010 Olympic Torch Relay has completed its tour through the Northwest Territories (NWT). The Town of Inuvik was the first NWT community to be visited by the Olympic Torch on November 4, followed by Yellowknife, Dettah, and N’dilo on November 5, 2009.
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First Nation youth running with the best

A Central Plains aboriginal youth will be running with the torch bearers as part of a relay for a leg of the tour in the Portage la Prairie area for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
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New Brunswick Aboriginal Woman will guard the Olympic Flame

A young aboriginal woman from northwestern New Brunswick is going to Greece next week to get the Olympic flame. Dina Ouellette, 22, of the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation, is one of two Canadians who will accompany the flame to this continent. Read more>>

Hockey Greats Team Up For Aboriginal Kids

Fifty Aboriginal children will today be the first to participate in a unique leadership camp, part of a five-year partnership announced between The Tim Horton Children's Foundation and Ted Nolan Foundation.The youths, some of whom have never left their native reserve, were selected from the Sault Ste. Marie First Nation to attend the five-day camp at the Tim Horton Children's Foundation camp just north of Brantford. The Tim Horton Children's Foundation has adapted its youth leadership program to cater specifically to Aboriginal youth. Read more>>