National Aboriginal Achievement Awards
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The National Aboriginal Achievement Awards (NAAA) are annual awards presented by the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation in Canada.
The awards were first established in 1993 in conjunction with the United Nations declared International Decade of the World's Indigenous peoples. The awards are intended to celebrate and encourage excellence in the Aboriginal community. Awards may be presented in a variety of categories, depending on the particular achievements of aboriginal people in the nominating period — between 10 and 15 awards are presented each year, but not all individual categories are necessarily presented annually.
To be eligible an individual must be of either First Nations, Inuit, or Métis heritage. Additionally they must demonstrate outstanding career achievement, and be a permanent Canadian resident or be Canadian born.
The awards are broadcast annually on the CBC Television network.
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[edit] Award recipients
[edit] 1994
- Lifetime Achievement: Bill Reid
- Arts and Culture: Susan Aglukark
- Community Development: Thelma Chalifoux
- Public Service: Nellie Cournoyea, Rosemarie Kuptana
- Health Services: Jean Cuthand Goodwill
- Environment: Cindy Kenny-Gilday
- Education: Verna Kirkness
- Business and Commerce: William Lyall
- Sports: Ted Nolan
- Film: Alanis Obomsawin
- Justice: Murray Sinclair
- Heritage and Spirituality: Art Solomon
[edit] 1995
- Lifetime Achievement: Kenojuak Ashevak
- Architecture: Douglas Cardinal
- Community Development: Louis Stevenson
- Public Service: Matthew Coon Come
- Health Services: Maggie Hodgson
- Youth: Sharla Howard
- Education: Ernest Benedict, Marie Smallface Marule, Ahab Spence
- Medicine: Noah Carpenter
- Sports: Angela Chalmers
- Arts and Culture: Robert Davidson
- Business and Commerce: Frank Hansen
- Law and Justice: Alfred Scow
[edit] 1996
- Lifetime Achievement: Frank Calder
- Heritage and Spirituality: Rose Auger
- Community Development: Louis Stevenson
- Public Service: Yvon Dumont, Elijah Harper, Phil Fontaine
- Environment: Mary May Simon
- Youth: Robert E. Johnson, Jr.
- Science and technology: Albert Rock
- Sports: Alwyn Morris
- Arts and Culture: Maria Campbell, Tom Jackson
- Business and Commerce: James Watson Walkus
- Women's rights: Mary Two-Axe Earley
[edit] 1997
- Lifetime Achievement: Olive Dickason
- Youth: George Berthe
- Arts and Culture: Kiawak Ashoona, Graham Greene, Rita Joe Tantoo Cardinal (actress)
- Film: Gil Cardinal
- Law and Justice: Chester Cunningham, Harry Laforme
- Business and Commerce: Billy Diamond
- Heritage and Spirituality: Stanley J. McKay
- Medicine: Martin Gale McLoughlin
- Community Development: Charlie Watt
- Sports: Darren Zack
[edit] 1998
- Lifetime Achievement: Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Youth: Wade Cachagee
- Public Service: John Amagoalik, Georges Erasmus, Dan E. Goodleaf
- Community Development: Abel Bosum
- Arts and Culture: Tantoo Cardinal, Daphne Odjig
- Heritage and Spirituality: Joe & Josephine Crowshoe
- Business and Commerce : Tagak Curley
- Education: Emily Jane Faries
- Law and Justice: Roberta Jamieson
- Sports: Bryan Trottier
- Medicine: Cornelia Wieman
[edit] 1999
- Lifetime Achievement: Allen Sapp, Lillian Dyck
- Youth: Alika LaFontaine
- Public Service: James Bartleman
- Community Development: Dorothy Betz, Therasa Stevenson
- Heritage and Spirituality: Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk
- Business and Commerce : Dorothy Grant, David Gabriel Tuccaro
- Education: Howard Adams
- Law and Justice: Rose Toodick Boyko, James Igloliorte
- Medicine: Edward Kantonkote Cree
- Medical Research: Malcolm King
