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MEDIA COVERAGE 2015
MEDIA COVERAGE 2015
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The Making of Treaty 7 returns to Calgary
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When Michael Green and Narcisse Blood were killed in car accident near Regina in February there
was a worry that The Making of Treaty 7, a multidisciplinary event these artists had spearheaded,
might be held in limbo.
Not so.
After a sold-out premiere last September, The Making of Treaty 7 returns Sept. 23-25 at the Bella
Concert Hall in Mount Royal University.
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According to Kris Demeanor — one of the music directors and performers — “it’s highly significant
that Michael and Narcisse were killed while trying to deliver a presentation and a film of our show in
hopes a similar project could ignite in Saskatchewan.
“To continue to perform The Making of Treaty 7 each year is the best way to honour Michael and
Narcisse and their families.”
The Making of Treaty 7 is the story of the creation of Alberta from a First Nations point of view.
Once again it will feature at least 30 actors, writers, poets, composers, musicians, dancers and
performing artists, many of whom participated last year including Cherish Violet Blood, Telly James,
Justin Many Fingers, Andy Curtis, Cowboy Smithx, Imajyn Cardinal and Indica Cardinal.
This year’s version, which Demeanor calls “meaner and leaner,” will be directed by Blake Brooker
and Michelle Thrush and choreographed by Troy Emery Twigg..
Demeanor stresses The Making of Treaty 7 is “a celebration.
“It is a door into what we hope will be a new era in relationships and understanding of First Nations
peoples and their history.
“At its heart The Making of Treaty 7 is a show about confronting history and an opportunity to
discover First Nations culture, wisdom and friendships.
“Theatre, dance, music and performance is one of the best ways to present their stories and we can
learn from First Nations people because they know how vital culture is to identity and none of us
wants to lose our identity.”
Demeanor says everyone involved with The Making of Treaty 7 were overwhelmed last year by the
demand for tickets.
The shows sold out and not even a major storm could keep people away from the Chataqua tent in
Heritage Park.
“We are indoors this year so there will be no need for blankets but it is vital for people to book their
tickets as quickly as possible to avoid disappointment.”
Tickets are available on-line at makingtreaty7.com or by phone at 403-440-7770.
[email protected]
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“Ninety percent of the people we approached over the years do not know a
thing, or what they know is not correct information,” says Thrush. “A lot of
people think it’s a treaty between the Native Nations of Southern Alberta, it’s
not. And a lot of people think it has no relevance.”
Nothing could be further from the fact of the matter.
Treaty 7 was one of several treaties signed in the latter half of the 1800s
between the Government of Canada and the Native tribes who rightfully
occupied and owned the land. Signed in 1877, Treaty 7 was crucial to the
government because it allowed the completion of the national railway along
with fulfilling terms to bring British Columbia into the Confederation. To secure
the agreement, the government promised Native people reserve lands based
on one square mile for every for five persons, a $2,000 annual payment along
with some minimal provisions for farming equipment, ammunition for hunting,
clothing supplies as well as providing for education for children.
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government failed to make annual payments for decades, reserves became
desolate landscapes where Native culture was contained while the country’s
non-Aboriginal population both neglected and disrespected its inhabitants and
their way of life. In addition to the isolation and rejection, children were forced
under the Crown’s authority into an abusive residential school system that
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By Emilie Medland-Marchen, September 17 2015 —
A play exploring the effect of Treaty 7 is returning to Alberta. Making Treaty 7 focuses on the historic roots of Alberta’s complex relationship with
local indigenous peoples.
Treaty 7 was an agreement between Queen Victoria and several First Nations bands that dictated land ownership in Southern Alberta. Making Treaty
7 recounts the history of these events from the perspective of those indigenous peoples. The producers of Making Treaty 7 hope to reclaim this
history by recounting aboriginal narratives.
Michelle Thrush is an indigenous woman who co-directs and acts in Making Treaty 7. She has won multiple awards for acting, including the Gemini
Award for her leading role in the TV series Blackstone. Thrush says the play is an important educational tool for all Canadians.
“The key part of the show is that we are all treaty people in Alberta,” she says. “We are all treaty people all over Canada, as those documents that
were signed involved everybody who lives on this land.”
All provinces west of Ontario contain land Canada gained through the Numbered Treaties signed between 1871 and 1921. In those treaties, traditional
indigenous territories were signed over to the British crown in exchange for hunting rights, reserves and annual payments. First Nations groups
argue that treaty rights are continuously eroded by various Canadian governments.
The recent Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission has called to attention the Canadian government’s tenuous relationship with indigenous
peoples. Thrush says Making Treaty 7 explores the reclamation of historical narrative and encourages educational reform.
“[Education] is something that needs to happen throughout Canada — not only in universities, but in the school system as well,” Thrush says. “We’ve
grown up in a society that has not always been told the true history of what’s happened in this country, and it’s all just sort of coming out in the last
few years. So I think it’s imperative for all Canadians to know what exactly those treaties were about.”
The subject matter of the play includes the residential school system and the smallpox epidemic that killed many aboriginal people when Europeans
first arrived in North America. Stories presented in the play are developed from the firsthand experiences of Alberta’s aboriginal communities.
“The show is about creating conversation,” Thrush explains. “A national
conversation about the things that are going to bring people together and
allow people to see the similarities that we have, as well as the things that
have created opposition between the cultures. Education is our buffalo, is
what we say. So we need to be able to have those conversations and be able
to share that information freely with support from all peoples.”
Making Treaty 7 runs from Sept. 23—25 at 7:00 p.m. at Mount Royal
University’s Bella Concert Hall. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased
online at making-treaty7.com.
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ÉTOILE DU MOIS DE SEPTEMBRE 2015
Me Michèle Stanners
Un tourbillon sur hauts talons !
J'ai aujourd'hui l'honneur et le grand plaisir de
vous présenter Me Michèle Stanners. Ces nombreux succès suscitent le respect et l'admiration de
tout ceux qui la connaissent. C’est l’occasion pour
ceux qui le souhaitent de le lui montrer.
ture». Femme
d'affaire, juriste, fondatrice de nombreux pro| SUZANNE DE COURVILLE NICOL
grammes et
Vous constaterez en me lisant, d’organismes de rapprochement
qu'il est juste de dire sans exagé- et de sensibilisation interculration, que mon étoile du mois est turels, il faut dire que rien n'est
une jeune dame exceptionnelle à l'épreuve de cette graduée de
aux multiples talents : dirigeante Harvard. Elle détient une maîavisée, déterminée, infatigable, trise en études théologiques, un
forte d'âme et d'esprit. Le carnet baccalauréat ès arts et une maîde route de madame Stanners trise en administration des afimpressionne et on s'essouffle à faires combinée à un diplôme en
droit de l’Université de l’Alberta.
retracer ses pas.
Suzanne
à la page
Native de St-Boniface, au Manitoba, où elle y a étudié au Collège, cette grande Canadienne est
parfaitement bilingue et possède
aussi une bonne maîtrise de l’espagnol. Dotée de charme, d'intelligence, de calme et de beauté
intérieure autant qu'extérieure,
Michèle Stanners habite l’Alberta depuis 1977. Elle devient très
active à l’échelle communautaire
depuis qu’elle s’est établie à Calgary en 1986. Elle fait preuve de
professionnalisme et incarne un
modèle tant pour les communautés anglophones que francophones.
Fondatrice et présidente de
nombreux organismes dont
l'AJEFA, Association des juristes
d'expression française de l'Alberta en 1990, Michèle reçoit le Prix
Jean-Louis Lebel pour Excellence, en l'an 2000. Cet honneur
lui est particulièrement cher
parmi les multiples prix qui lui
ont été décernés au cour des dernières années.
Dès juillet 2003, elle est nommée l’une des 50 personnes
les plus influentes en Alberta
par le magazine «Alberta Ven-
lectivités autochtones et non autochtones; «Calgarians Pulling
Together», un programme conçu
pour favoriser le rapprochement
de Musulmans et de personnes
de d’autres communautés suite
aux attentats du 11 septembre
2001. Elle inspire la jeunesse
avec le «Young Leaders Speaker
Series» qui regroupe alors plus de
600 participants du secteur des
entreprises et du secteur privé.
Et ce n'est pas tout, car l'année
suivante, Michèle est fondatrice
de Women at Centre Ice, un organisme communautaire bénévole
mettant à l’honneur les femmes
dans le domaine du hockey dans
le cadre de programmes de déjeuners-causeries, de prix et de
bourses. Il s’agit alors du premier
programme du genre en Amérique du Nord!
Et comme si ce n'était pas assez, Michèle décide d'escalader le
mont Kilimanjaro, ce mythique
volcan africain en Tanzanie. En
octobre 2002, elle atteint le sommet situé à 19 000 pieds d'altitude !
Michèle
Stanners devient présidente fondatrice
du Honens Invitational Father’s Day
Amateur
Piano
Competition, que la
fondation Honens
lance à Calgary au
printemps de 2003.
Pianiste dans ses
temps libres, en
2008 elle réussit
l'examen du niveau
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10 avec la distincÀ ne pas manquer, MAKING
tion du Royal Conservatory of
Music. Puis en 2005, l’Alberta TREATY 7 sera présenté à nouBallet fait peau neuve sous la di- veau les 23, 24 et 25 septembre
rection agile de Michèle à titre de 2015 à 19h au tout nouveau Bella
Concert Hall, 4825 Mount Royal
directrice exécutive.
Plus récemment, elle acceptera Gate SW in Calgary, AB.
le poste de directrice générale par BILLETS :
intérim de la société Making Trea- tickets.mru.ca/Treaty7 ou
ty 7 Cultural Society. Cette lourde (403) 440-7770
responsabilité lui revient en avril www.makingtreaty7.com
dernier suite aux décès tragique www.facebook.com/Makingde Michael Green, metteur en Treaty7
scène de Making Treaty 7 et Narcisse Blood. Ce guide spirituel a
connu la mort dans un accident
d'automobile le 10 février 2015.
En 1990, elle est choisie comme
l’une de deux délégués pour
représenter le Canada au Rand
Afrikans University International Youth Leaders’ Seminar,
à Johannesburg en Afrique du
Sud. Quatre ans plus tard, Michèle reçoit le prix d’intégrité du
Gouverneur de district du Club
Rotary et en 1999, on lui décerne
le prix Women of Vision Award
for April. Elle est aussi choisie
pour faire partie d’un groupe de
28 citoyens de Calgary qui participent au premier programme
de leadership de cette ville en l'an
2000.
Surnommée «Madame Canada», Michèle utilise ses dons
et ses forces de femme de tête
lorsqu'elle accepte le poste de
directrice de la région de l’Ouest
auprès du Conseil pour l’unité
canadienne. Elle sera responsable pour l’Alberta, le Manitoba,
la Saskatchewan, les Territoires
du Nord-Ouest et le Nunavut.
Elle est alors responsable pour la
création de programmes novateurs, tels que «Crossroads», un
cercle réunissant des femmes
d’influence représentant des col-
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LE FRANCO | Semaine du 17 au 23 septembre 2015 | www.lefranco.ab.ca
GEL DES FRAIS DE SCOLARITÉ EN ALBERTA
LES ÉTUDIANTS DU CAMPUS SAINT-JEAN
REPRENNENT LEUR SOUFFLE
Sigurdson, dans un courriel envoyé par son attachée de presse.
Son gouvernement commencera
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Mais pour l’étudiant de cinet sa Faculté Saint-Jean, pour une période de deux ans, à
quième année en sciences policompter de cet automne. Chose promise, chose due.
tiques et en économie, ce n’est
qu’un début. « Quand on voit nos
cousins dans l’est et des mari« C’est sûr que c’est une bonne Combien ça coûte?
nouvelle. Ça permet aux étuPour des études à temps plein times où l’éducation est beaudiants de mieux planifier leurs au Campus Saint-Jean, l’étudiant coup moins onéreuse qu’ici, on se
dépenses et leur budget de cette doit débourser en moyenne 6830 dit que ce serait bien qu’un jour,
année et de l’an prochain. Ça dollars pour une année universi- l’Alberta atteigne cet idéal, même
évitera à certains de devoir tra- taire. À cela s’ajoute environ 1600 s’il faut comprendre que la situavailler au cours de l’année, et de dollars pour le matériel scolaire. tion économique et sociale des
se consacrer entièrement à leurs Des frais qui devraient demeu- provinces de l’est est différente
études », explique Colin Cham- rer les mêmes pour les deux pro- de celle des provinces de l’ouest.
Le gel des frais de scolarité est un
pagne, le président de l’Asso- chaines années.
ciation des universitaires de la
« Notre gouvernement s’engage pas dans la bonne direction, mais
Faculté Saint-Jean.
à rendre l’éducation postse- il reste du travail à faire », souL’engagement de 133 millions condaire accessible à toutes les tient Colin Champagne. Son scéde dollars pour 2015 et 2016 du familles albertaines. En ayant nario idéal serait qu’il y ait une
gouvernement
néodémocrate des frais de scolarité fixes, elles réduction des frais de scolarité en
inclut aussi l’annulation de la sont en mesure de mieux [plani- Alberta.
D’après lui, les prêts et une
baisse prévue de 1,4% du finance- fier leurs finances] et se préparer
ment des institutions postsecon- pour l’éducation postsecondaire. bourse sont aussi des formes
daires, la hausse de 2% du finan- Les bons emplois se décrochent d’aide aux étudiants acceptables,
cement des activités de base des grâce à une éducation appro- mais sont moins équitables. « Ces
institutions postsecondaires et priée », rappelle la ministre de formes d’aide visent plus partil’annulation de la hausse des frais l'Innovation, de l'Éducation culièrement les étudiants qui ont
de scolarité de 25 programmes postsecondaire, de l'Emploi, de des bonnes notes ou qui ont des
d’études.
la Formation et du Travail, Lori besoins financiers, mais ce n’est
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pas tout le monde qui y a accès »,
déplore t-il.
La province a versé 73,5 millions de dollars en bourse l’an
dernier à près de 40 000 étudiants
albertains. Le Campus Saint-Jean
en a des dizaines à offrir chaque
année, mais il ne trouve pas toujours preneur, surtout pour les
bourses étant destinées aux nouveaux étudiants.
La dette d’études moyenne à
payer au gouvernement par un
finissant est de 20 100 dollars.
| MEGHANN DIONNE
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780-465-8965 [email protected]
Le 10 février 2015, les communautés artistiques et de partout à
Calgary et ailleurs s'attristaient
profondément en apprenant la
nouvelle stupéfiante du tragique
accident de voiture de Michael
Green, génie derrière la production Making Treaty 7 et Narcisse
Blood, guide spirituel.
Making Treaty 7 est un chef
d'oeuvre théâtral qui raconte
l'histoire entourant le Traité 7 et
ses conséquences. L'entente fut
signée le 22 septembre 1877 entre
la Reine Victoria et les Premières
Nations du sud de l'Alberta, les
nations des Pieds-Noirs, StoneyNakoda et Tsuu T'ina.
Les artistes sur scène, autochtones et non autochtones, dont
Inouk Touzin (Père Albert Lacombe) éduquent et sensibilisent
ainsi les spectateurs aux faits historiques entourant la signature
du Traité 7. Les Albertains sont
témoins au quotidien du patrimoine et des réalités vécues dont
les racines datent d'il y a 138 ans
et du Traité 7, par nos frères et nos
soeurs autochtones.
MAKING TREATY 7 sera
présenté à nouveau les 23, 24 et
25 septembre 2015 à 19h au Bella
Concert Hall, 4825 Mount Royal
Gate SW à Calgary.
BILLETS:
tickets.mru.ca/Treaty7 ou
(403) 440-7770
www.makingtreaty7.com
www.facebook.com/Making
Treaty7
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Making Treaty 7 seeks to
overcome loss
S T E P H E N H U N T, C A L G A R Y H E R AL D
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Published on: September 22, 2015 | Last Updated: September 22, 2015 10:41 AM MDT
Last Feb. 6, Michelle Thrush sat down with Michael
Green to get some notes about Making Treaty 7.
Following a successful run at the Chautauqua Tent at Heritage Park in
September, it was time to make adjustments, to decide what to cut and what
to add and where the show could be strengthened.
What neither realized, that day, was that it was the last day Green — who
originally produced and conceived of the project as a legacy project for Calgary
2012 — would spend working on Making Treaty 7.
The next day, Green, along with Making Treaty 7 cast member and elder
Narcisse Blood, and two other Saskatchewan-based artists, died in a car crash
outside Regina.
While the project itself — an interdisciplinary project that tells the story of the
creation of Alberta from the perspective of the First Nations — is huge and
ambitious and filled with lofty ideals, the meeting that day was more about the
nuts-and-bolts of it, Thrush says.
“We had a really great conversation,” she says, “but also we talked about how
we needed to mix things up a bit.
“We needed to bring in some people,” she says, “let go of some people, (and)
bring the show down from three hours and whatever, to two hours exactly — so
those were the last notes I received from Michael.”
Before Thrush — a cast member, board member and one of the co-directors
(along with One Yellow Rabbit’s Blake Brooker) of Making Treaty 7 — could
implement Green’s notes, the project was rocked by the deaths of Green and
Blood (along with the earlier death, in late November, of the project’s sound
designer Richard McDowell).
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Suddenly, the next incarnation of Making Treaty 7 was replaced by
conversations about whether or not to shut the whole thing down.
“It’s been difficult,” Thrush says, “to even make the decision to come back.
That was really up in the air for a long time.”
However, Thrush and Brooker and the rest of the Making Treaty crew, including
choreographer Troy Emery Twigg, eventually realized that the best way to pay
tribute to Green and Blood and McDowell was to keep Making Treaty 7.
The show returns in a new instalment Wednesday for a three day run at a new
venue — the $90.5 million Bella Concert Hall — where it will be unveiled on a
beautiful new stage, in a venue designed, partly, to evoke prairie landscape and
light.
“We’re all just wanting to get onto that stage,” says Thrush.
“It’s an absolutely stunning, gorgeous stage,” she says, “and we will be the first
(theatrical) show out of it, which I feel is appropriate at the Bella.
“We’re just super-excited,” she says, “to not be freezing in a tent this year.
We’re ready for the challenge.”
One of those challenges includes rejiggering Making Treaty 7 to include
increased input from tribes overshadowed in earlier productions by the show’s
impressive roster of Blackfoot artists.
That was one of the notes Thrush received from community elders who
attended earlier workshop productions of the show, at Fort Calgary (2012), the
Canmore Opera House (2014) and again last September at the Chautauqua
Tent.
“We have a really strong Blackfoot component in the show,” says Thrush,
“because we have so many strong, trained Blackfoot performers — and so
some of the notes we’ve gotten back are (to) up the presence of Tsuu T’ina,
(and) Nakoda — the people of Morley, the Stoney Nation people.
“So this year, we’ve brought on Sykes Powderface,” says Thrush, “who is an
elder from the Nakoda nation, and we’ve brought on Alanna Blackrider
Onespot from Sultana — and I’m really excited, as co-director, to be seeing
what they’re bringing to the table.”
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This edition of Making Treaty 7 also adds a familiar face to fans of One Yellow
Rabbit: Denise Clark (along with Rabbit Andy Curtis).
“We’ve got three Rabbits in the show,” says Thrush, “and how often can you say
that?
“We are so blessed to have every single artist on this show,” she says. “It’s a
beautiful unique blend (of voices, tribes and sensibilities).”
For Twigg, performing at the Bella offers the opportunity for the production to
showcase its dancers in a way that previous venues did not.
“When we were at Fort Calgary (in 2012),” says Twigg, “there wasn’t any room
for that (choreography), because it was a staged reading.
“Then,” he adds, “(because of) the (flat) seating at the Canmore Opera, the
visuals didn’t allow for that to happen.
“Now,” he says, “we have the opportunity to explore more, because we have so
many beautiful dancers in the project, (and) this huge theatre at Mount Royal
— we can (really) dig into that bank of stuff we’ve explored (over various
creative residencies) and … continue to play.”
For Thrush, who has a long resume in film and television and has been acting
professionally for 25 years, Making Treaty 7 has represented, in various
residencies held at the Banff Centre and in Calgary, as much an opportunity to
listen and learn from community elders.
“For a lot of them,” she says, “their parents or grandparents were at the signing
of Treaty 7, so they have direct knowledge of what happened on that day, Sept
22, 1877 — so we spent a lot of time listening.
“It’s been an incredible process,” she says, “as artists the gifts we’ve received
from the elders — as well as breathing those words into our soul, and then
allowing the to come out interpreted thru the abilities of who we have in our
cast.”
While those powerful words guide the project, Thrush acknowledges this
edition of Making Treaty 7 figures to be guided just as much by the voices now
missing from it.
“It’s been intense,” she says. “There’s some missing seats in the circle. We’ve
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allowing the to come out interpreted thru the abilities of who we have in our
cast.”
While those powerful words guide the project, Thrush acknowledges this
edition of Making Treaty 7 figures to be guided just as much by the voices now
missing from it.
“It’s been intense,” she says. “There’s some missing seats in the circle. We’ve
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“He had the guts to step forward as a non-native
person and actually go to the Treaty 7
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personal life,” Telly says. “He was a father
figure, a spiritual leader, and cultural leader. When we lost him, we also lost all of that.”
It’s been a huge loss for the cast and crew, but according to Many Fingers, Blood taught them to be
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When times got tough, or the cast would run into an obstacle, Blood would remind them of the Blackfoot
word “Iikakimatt” which means “try harder” or “keep trying.”
James says he was unsure if he could be a part of Making Treaty 7 again, but after performing five soldout shows in three days, there’s no doubt in his mind. “This run has really giving me the confidence that
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James says those five sold-out shows wouldn’t be possible without the cast and crew’s support for each
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