; Ba- ~The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June'14, 2006. Journée i National . nationale des | Aboriginal’ Autochtones Pay Nass Valley basketball star off to major sports event | By SARAH ARTIS” a (NAIG).: wo Robinson is a fast, “competitive ° : » The NAIG is:a massive sport player, whose -training included. JANELLE DRIBBLED her first and indigenous culture celebra- working out four times a week. | ‘ basketball when she was only two, tion that happens every four years. And. now: that ’she’s been se- ” years old. says her mom Ruth. Almost 10,000 youth between the lected, she hasn’t stopped working. |. Robinson. . 0 ages 13. and 19 compete in 16.dif- She's busy fundraising for the trip. ‘She was watching her older ferent sports on state and provincial. Although, the. games society brother play in the New Aiyansh teams from Canada and the United pays for most of her costs, she's mini leagues and started to copy States. . responsible for food her round-trip . him and do drills. It’s an honour to attend. ~ ticket to Vancouver. : “It's her favourite sport. - She . “I’m-happy,” Robinson said. - ~— So far Robinson’s raised $350 ° plays as much as she can,” Ruth “She was ecstatic,” said her . from a canteen sale, relatives, and continued. =” mom, who also played’ basketball: various sponsors, so she’s saan a And it’s that dedication thathas inthe past: ; to’ get excited to’ leave June'29 —to _ landed Janelle Robinson, a Grade . Robinson, 14, was chosen to _ play basketball, ‘she said, and for a a eight student at Skeena Junior play for the B.C. NAIG team:at a__ holiday. 7 Secoridary school, to’ where. she provincial basketball skills training Also joining Janelle for the _ is, today — on her way to the 2006 camp'in Prince Rupert. — "games are basketball players Mari- North American Indigenous Games “She put, lots of effort into it.” -» ah Tait and Olivia Morgan. . : National Aboriginal Day (NAD) i isa day for Canadians to celebrate the cultures of Canada’ s First Nations, Inuit and a --’ Metis peoples. OA June 16, 1996,. Governor General Romeo LeBlanc declared June 21 as National Aboriginal | _ Day after consultations with various aboriginal groups; June 21 — National Aboriginal Day is first celebrated with ~ ~ events from coast to coast to coast. As in the past, the festivity of events will be celebrated with the City of Terrace along with the > surrounding six nations 's (Tsimshian, Gitxan, Haisla, Nisga’a a, Tahitan, and Metis). | ie er ond —H Bl 10: 00 A.M. 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