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Dr. Hugh Dempsey and the Glenbow Museum are being sued by Buff Parry, a researcher who claims Dempsey and the Glenbow blocked his investigation of an ancient stone tablet bearing symbols matching Cree syllabics.
The tablet was uncovered a hundred years before the Rev. James Evans, who Dempsey claims invented the syllabics, set down his writing system.
Both Dempsey…
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Metis Association President Larry Desmeules says a court ruling against the International Woodworkers of America, Local 1-207, contained discriminatory language.
Justice A.T. Cooke said in his ruling that the behaviour of the union picketers indicated they were "simply naive persons from a small northern Alberta community, many of part Native blood, who were without…
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Volunteers from Metis Local 14 will be serving up home-made bannock at a booth at the Calgary Canadian citizenship food fair during the Olympics.
The bannock will be served with a host of condiments, says president Theresa Arseneau and will be open from Feb. 15 to 18 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The food fair will be constructed along Calgary's 8th Avenue Mall and will…
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The Nistawoyou Friendship Centre has shifted into high gear says executive director, Gerry Cuthbert.
The centre was the subject of controversy last summer due to financial difficulties coupled with a large turnover of staff and board members. Four board members resigned and the centre was also struck from the member list of the United Way.
United Way executive…
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Who is vandalizing Joane Cardinal-Shubert's sculpture?
Whether it is the work of another artist, a group of people with a message or just a gang of delinquents is not known, but those responsible are certainly persistent.
Six times within the last three months vandals have attacked the art work entitled Abandoned Camp ? Keeper of the Culture, an environmental…
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The government faces tough negotiations with a group of about 6,000 Aboriginals living in the Torres Strait, near Papua, New Guinea, after the islanders voted to withdraw from Australia.
The Aboriginals have called upon the United Nations to help them seek the independence and the Australian government has been presented with a huge compensation claim for illegal conquest…
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An Aboriginal writer from Australia raised the red and black Australian Aboriginal flag on the white cliffs of Dover claiming Britain on behalf of all Aboriginals.
Burnham Burnham staked his claim Jan. 26 while the rest of Australia was celebrating its 200th birthday. Australian Aboriginals claimed the celebrations were a ritual of mourning for their people who died in the…
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A former missionary was found guilty Jan. 22 of sexually abusing seven children from the Indian Village of Canyon City.
William Douglas, 57, had pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of gross indecency over the assaults which took place in the village's one-room schoolhouse in the 1960s.
Douglas could face a 20-year prison term when he is sentenced March 20.
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The Manitoba Metis Federation is the first Metis group in Canada to enter negotiations for a province-wide agreement to gain control of housing, education, economic development and family services.
Federation President Yvon Dumont announced that both levels of government had agreed to begin negotiations which would eventually lead to a fourth level of government in…
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Aboriginal self-government can be entrenched despite the controversial Meech Lake Accord, says Liberal leader John Turner.
Speaking at a student forum at the University of Alberta Jan. 21 Turner said Liberal support for the accord only came after the government agreed to organizing further first minister conferences.
The accord gives veto power to the federal…
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Feds to fund Aboriginal language institute
Jamie McDonell and Lesley Crossingham ? Ottawa
Native people have moved one step closer to founding an Aboriginal language institute with a promise from the Secretary of State to fund an advisory committee.
During his address to an Aboriginal language conference organized by the Assembly of First Nations Jan. 19-21,…
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As the Olympic torch runners wind their way to Edmonton and the Calgary Winter Games loom closer on the horizon, support for the Lubicon Indian band is growing on the University of Alberta campus.
Close to 50 students met at the Heritage Lounge on the university campus to learn more about the history of the Cree land claim fight and to hear about on-campus activities in…
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Evicted family leaves tent
After six days of living in a tent, a Metis family of seven, who were evicted from their house, have moved into a government trailer.
Louise Gardiner, her husband and five children, ranging in age from two to 16, had been living in the tent near their empty house for the past week after being evicted by the RCMP and a sheriff.
"It…
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A Cree actor appearing in Theatre Calgary's Olympic arts festival production of Walsh is demanding an apology from Calgary police and the city, claiming he was roughed up by police.
Ron Cook, originally from Manitoba and now living in Toronto, had demanded an apology after being taken to jail by the police for being drunk in a public place. Cook was not arrested.
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For the past eight years, the Native Law Centre of Canada has been helping to open doors for Aboriginal youth in Canada by sending them to other countries.
Each year, the centre selects a handful of Aboriginal youth, age 18 to 30, to take part in its Youth International Internship program, funded through the federal government's Youth Employment Strategy (YES) and the…