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Article: Three Albertans given National Aboriginal Achievement Awards
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- Alberta Sweetgrass
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- February 28, 1997
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Three Albertans given National Aboriginal Achievement Awards
CALGARY -- When the Canadian Native Arts Foundation announced the 14 recipients of the 1997 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, three Albertans were included. It is a fitting achievement for the first version of the four-year-old awards to be held in Alberta.
Heading the honorees at the Feb. 7 ceremony at Calgary's Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium will be historian, writer and journalist Olive Dickason, who will receive the lifetime achievement award for her work as a chronicler of Canada's Aboriginal history. Dickason, who was a professor of history at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, revised the written history to ...