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The audience at the Austrian Olympic Club got quite a surprise here when world famous rock group, Opus, announced they support the Lubicon Lake Indian band and dedicated a song to the Lubicons.
In a Feb. 13 press conference with the Native media shortly before the show, the all-Austrian band told Windspeaker that they had heard about the Lubicon band's land claim in…
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Lubicon supporters withstand pestering crowds
They had been there since 6 a.m. huddled tightly together holding their banners and placard high above their heads. They come to Calgary from all over Canada to unite in a show of support for the Lubicon Lake Indian band's land claim and boycott of the Calgary Winter Olympic Games.
More than 200 protesters gather in…
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Canadian and American Native groups have signed a treaty to protect and manage polar bears along the border region of the Beaufort Sea.
The treaty means that American Inupiat hunters from Alaska will keep strict quotas and hunting seasons on the bears which they share with the Canadian Inuvialuit.
To avoid lengthy negotiations with American and Canadian governments…
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Pine Ridge, S.D.
The great Sioux nation has named its first war chief in more than a century and charged him with leading the battle to recover the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota.
Philip Stevens, 59, is the great-grandson of Chief Standing Bear as well as the head of an engineering firm. He will now fight the American government, which the Sioux say, illegally…
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A controversial poster issued by the Yukon Human Rights Commission showing a young Native girl standing in front of a schoolhouse, her face fraught with despair, has outraged the Yukon Teachers Association.
The caption on the poster reads: Mommy Don't Leave Me Here.
The text of the poster continues: "Racism scours the depth of our souls and dredges up the most…
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George Erasmus, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, sent Prime Minister Mulroney a letter calling for Indian Affairs Minister McKnight's removal for showing a conflict of interest in his decision to provide a grant to a Japanese-owned paper company.
"He offers half a million dollars for lost treaty benefits to the Crees of Lubicon Lake, who never signed a…
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A picture published in Windspeaker helped to locate a 12-year old boy who went missing in June of last year.
Joseph Osecap's picture, published in a special October 1987 crime prevention issue was noticed by a secretary at the Prince Charles school in Edmonton who recognized Osecap as a former student.
"I couldn't really believe it. I thought, gee, that's one of…
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Native educators share concerns, seek answers
The first Treaty 7 Education Conference held Feb. 4 ? 5 at the St. Mary's high school exceeded everyone's expectations.
Over 650 Native educators, politicians, students and interested community members attended the two-day event despite the bitterly cold weather.
Sponsored by the Treaty 7 education steering…
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The federal government is pumping $8.3 million into Native economic development through a lending institution called the Alberta Indian Investment Corporation.
The funding is expected to create more than 500 new jobs and 250 Indian-owned businesses, generating up to $27 million into the province's economy over the next decade.
The corporation is owned by the Indian…
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The federal government has offered the Lubicon Indians cash compensation for loss of treaty benefits but says Alberta may want to claim half of the oil and gas revenues on the land under claim by the band.
In a letter to the band, federal negotiator Brian Malone says Alberta may be constitutionally entitled to "50 per cent of all monies gained from the sale, lease, or…
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The Fort Chipewyan Cree band has received its first parcel of reserve land; close to 2,000 acres which is rich in red granite.
The 1,300 member band located about 627 km north of Edmonton has already received a cash settlement of $26.6 million.
The crown land transferred from the province to the federal government is one of seven land parcels which makes up a land…
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Over the past decade the number of Native recording artists in Canada has increased from a mere handful to dozens.
In a tribute to fans and performers alike, Windspeaker is pleased to present a brief profile of well known and not so well-known artists. The following short biographies are intended as brief introductions to some of these performers. If space permitted…
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Editorial
"He (whiteman) kidnaps the earth . . . his appetite will devour the earth . . . continue to contaminate in your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste."
The above is an excerpt from Chief Seattle's speech, delivered in 1854 as he prepared to sign treaties with the whiteman who had overrun Indian lands. The great Indian orator obviously…
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Increasing cross-cultural dialogue between medical practioners and the Native community is required to better serve urban Native held care needs.
This was the overall recommendation delegates submitted to the Inner City Health Symposium, held in Edmonton on Jan. 28, 29 and 30.
Allowing sweetgrass ceremonies, using medicine pouches and other traditional spiritual…
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Residents will soon be enjoying the first powwow and round dance there in 20 yeas if all goes well.
And, a round dance is just what the doctor ordered, according to organizer Everett Lambert. He hopes the event will help bring the Metis settlement closer together, following political problems that threatened to split the community last summer.
Lambert explains the…