Here are the champions of N.W.T. Minister s Culture and Heritage Circle Award
N.W.T. residents who promote culture, art and language revitalization are among the recipients of the 2020 Minister’s Culture and Heritage Circle Award.
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Posted: Jun 03, 2021 11:31 AM CT | Last Updated: June 3
Myrna Pokiak, who is an Inuvialuk from Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, was asked to design a celebratory coin marking 150 years since the N.W.T. joined Canada.(Submitted)
The Northwest Territories government has announced the recipients of the 2020 Minister s Culture and Heritage Circle for their contributions to culture, language, arts and storytelling.
Premier Caroline Cochrane told the N.W.T. legislature Monday that she wanted to find the territory's lost children "as soon as she saw the news" but that it is not the place of the territorial government to decide what to do next.
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FORT SMITH, NT, May 19, 2021 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada, the Northwest Territory Métis Nation and the Government of the Northwest Territories have signed a framework agreement that will further advance reconciliation, the right to self-determination, work toward building strong Indigenous nations, and the Northwest Territory Métis Nation (NWTMN) land claim negotiations.
Today, the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations of Canada, alongside Garry Bailey, President of the Northwest Territory Métis Nation, Arthur Beck, Acting President of the Fort Resolution Métis Government, Trevor Beck, President of the Hay River Métis Government Council, Allan Heron, President of the Fort Smith Métis Council, and the Honourable Caroline Cochrane, Premier of the Northwest Territories, signed a framework agreement that will pave the way to their vision of self-determination a prosperous, self-sufficient, he