Welcome to the June 2003 issue of Aboriginal Planet! Aboriginal Planet Online Magazine reports on Aboriginal Canadian involvement at international events around the world. Our new stories feature international youth intern Kent Ayoungman who has returned from the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia to apply his knowledge at the Siksika Cultural Centre and...Aboriginal Planet goes to the United Nations! - for the Second Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum in New York. Also at the Forum, representatives from the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and Inuit Tapariit Kanatami joined the panel for a seminar on Information and Communications Technology and Indigenous peoples. Keep checking the site as we post more information on Canadian participation at the Permanent Forum.

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Our cover picture features a Kurikuru village elder from the upper Xingu region of Mato Grosso, Brazil, holding a jaguar cub.