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Article: Flying high after 10 years (aviation program at First Nations Technical Institute in Tyendinaga, Ontario).
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- January 1, 2001
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TYENDINAGA, Ont.
The aviation program at First Nations Technical Institute in Tyendinaga, Ont., is celebrating its 10th anniversary, achieving its goal of providing a flight school operated by Aboriginal people for Aboriginal people.
"Ten years ago, when we started the program, we looked around the country to find some Aboriginal instructors and we found that there weren't any," said Murray Maracle, vice president of education and training at First Nations Technical Institute. "So it was a goal at that time to train as many people as we could, to have some of those people come back and give back to the program what they could of their knowledge. Now, 10 ...