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A review of the 2004 election of the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan (MNS) found that activities at some polling stations were so questionable that the people of the province could not trust the election results.
The Saskatchewan government decided therefore to continue to withhold funding to the MNS and refuse to recognize the MNS provincial council that was sworn into office…
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At the very least, Dwayne Roth will be in shape for the promised upcoming battles.
At the end of a 250-kilometre march from Saskatoon to Regina to challenge the provincial government's refusal to recognize the results of a controversial election that made Roth president of the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan (MNS), he declared the coming of a second Saskatchewan Metis rebellion…
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There are two categories of harm in the federal government's residential school alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process: Category A and Category B.
The first category is for survivors claiming physical abuse with injuries that lasted more than six weeks or that required hospitalization. It also includes sexual abuse.
Category B involves claims for less…
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The Assembly of First Nations' report on Canada's dispute resolution plan to compensate for abuses in Indian residential schools was released on Nov. 17 and presented a scathing indictment of the federal government's alternative dispute resolution (DR or ADR) process.
The report was commissioned and released by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), but more than half of…
Dear Editor:
First: We have a culture of anti-Aboriginalism in Canada.
Second: We, as Canadians, are very skilled when it comes to concealing our true thoughts if there is any chance those thoughts might be politically incorrect or controversial. We are known around the world for our diplomacy.
Third: Most non-Aboriginal Canadians have the arrogant and false notion that…
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Dear Editor:
I just want to comment about all the stuff you guys have been writing about the injustices to Native people. I think it's great that you guys are doing this, but you've got to remember the cops have all the power and power corrupts. That's all there is to it. Whatever happens they are going to get away with it.
I found the story on the Stonechild…
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin:
Samson Cree Nation has long been in the forefront of the struggle against the government of Canada to achieve respect for the principles and values of Treaty No. 6 and its place as the means by which Canada was extended to the Western Plains.
Our 15-year-old court challenge respecting the treaty and trust obligations of the Crown has…
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Dear Editor:
After reading the story about schizophrenia (November Windspeaker), I can sympathize with the writer, because I too have a family member who is schizophrenic. He pretty well goes through the same thing day in and day out. He is currently in a group home, which seems to be helping him cope with the outside world. He's been there for about five years now, since…
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Is that the faintest hint of positive development we see discussed in our pages this month? Let us focus your attention on page 8 where we bring you news of a remarkable report by the Assembly of First Nations' 18-member panel of experts that dealt with the alternative dispute resolution process for residential school survivors. There it is. Positive development, lurking in the…
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He was born Harold Jay Smith and later changed his name to Jay Silverheels, but to many he will always be remembered as Tonto.
Silverheels was born June 26, 1912 on the Six Nations reserve in Ohsweken, Ont.
The Lone Ranger, which told the tale of a mysterious masked man and his faithful Indian companion as they fought to bring peace and justice to the Old West,…
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Naomi Williams, 28, an assistant environmental technologist from Walpole Island First Nation, credits a federal government program called BEAHR with expanding her career options and providing an opportunity to help her preserve her people's natural resource heritage.
BEAHR (Building Environmental Aboriginal Human Resources) is designed to increase Aboriginal people's…
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You only have to look at some of the headlines peppering newspapers across the country to see that prostitution is dangerous. It's also a life from which it is difficult to escape. But for the past decade an organization in Regina has been working to help people involved in prostitution turn their lives around.
The Street Worker's Advocacy Project (SWAP) began as a drop-…
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In 1992, a television series called North of 60 made its way into millions of Canadian homes. Starring Aboriginal actors Tina Keeper, Dakota House, Jimmy Herman and Tom Jackson, the show chronicled the trials and tribulations of the people who lived in the fictional First Nations community of Lynx River.
Hot on the heels of that successful CBC show, The Rez followed in…
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For six years Glen McCallum has been using his own experience with addictions and healing to help other people come to terms with the past and their problems and to chart their own course toward wellness.
McCallum is president and counsellor associate at Building A Nation Inc., an organization that provides counselling services in the Saskatoon area. But before he began…
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I have a disease known as schizophrenia. Individuals with this disorder vary in their presentation of symptoms. For me, there are days when everything is detailed, scary and frightening, or there are days of seeing things moving around in my apartment which are not really there. There are days where I weep because my life is one big roller coaster. Then there are days where…