Welcome to the 8th Annual

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b o r i g i n a l B u s i n e s s L e a d e r s h i p A w a r d s

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Andrew Clarke and Tim Sweeny will receive “EAGLE”, sculpted by Manitoba artist, Irvin Head. Irvin has been the exclusive provider for EABLA awards from 2005 – 2010, and 2012

Andrew Clarke Clarke Financial Planning and Insurance Services

2012 Excellence in Aboriginal Business Community

Leadership Award

Excerpt from Artist Statement “I try to honour the Eagle by working through my struggles with strength, perseverance, respect, patience and providing the care that myself and those around me need.” Irvin Head Sculptor

Tim Sweeny,

Creeway Aviation

2012Excellence in

Aboriginal Small and

Medium

Enterprises Award

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back. Louis Riel, 1885

Christi Belcourt, Métis Giniigaaniimenaaning (Looking Ahead) Stained glass window in the House of Commons, Ottawa to commemorate the Statement of Apology for Indian Residential Schools

Rosalie Favell, Métis I Awoke to Find My Spirit Had Returned, digital photograph

KC Adams, Ojibwe/Métis Sugar (detail), photo collage

Christi Belcourt, Métis Beadwork detail, beads on cloth

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Rosalie Favell, Métis Transformation

David Garneau, Métis 4th Teaching (acrylic on canvas)

C o r p o r a t e Ta b l e S p o n s o r s

Kent Monkman, Cree Trappers of Men, acrylic on canvas

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Adrian Stimson, Blackfoot Bison # 1, acrylic on canvas

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Jeff Thomas, Urban Iroquois Father and Daughter in Toronto, photograph

C o r p o r a t e Ta b l e S p o n s o r s

THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS EVENING WITH US