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Buffalo Lake aboriginal art chosen for report

Colourful artwork by three talented Central Alberta students was selected as a decorative cover page for a Senate Aboriginal Committee report.

Colourful artwork by three talented Central Alberta students was selected as a decorative cover page for a Senate Aboriginal Committee report.

The art was created by Amber Gordon, Alesian Larocque and Destiny Auger during a finger-painting night at the Buffalo Lake Cultural Interpretive Centre. Senators visited the centre in the fall of 2012 as part of a study on Métis identity and saw the artwork on the wall.

When deciding on a report cover, and reviewing photos from all the communities they visited, this painting was selected because senators felt it captured the essence of the report, The People Who Own Themselves: Recognition of Métis Identity in Canada.