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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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The President of the Indian Association of Alberta, (IAA) Wilfred McDougall, announced march 20 that the Canadian native Friendship Centre in Edmonton, and the IAA will be jointly sponsoring a workshop dealing with the recommendations of the Penner Report.
This two-day meeting will be held March 27 and 28 at the Friendship Centre. Lunch will be served to all participants…
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Edmonton
Alberta Minister Responsible for Native Affairs Milt Pahl and Larry Shaben MLA for Lesser Slave Lake announced March 21 a $15,000 grant to the Frontiers Foundation.
The Frontiers Foundation will be using the grant to cover living expenses for the volunteer workers in the Wabasca and Desmarais communities. For the next six months the volunteers working in…
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Specialized training for nurses working in the northern and isolated areas of Canada will soon be cut from the faculty of medicine at the University of Alberta.
The five month nurse practitioner program at the university will not continue after April of this year. In 1983-84, the program trained 16 nurses to deal with the special situations they will encounter when working…
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Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs John Munro, on a cross-country tour seeking support from Indian First Nations for the government's proposed federal legislation process, received an unfavorable reaction from Alberta chiefs meeting in Edmonton March 19.
Munro disclosed the intentions of the federal government to introduce in parliament legislation which will…
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In the last issue of AMMSA we examined some of the different ways in which the Ceremonial Pipe is used for social, spiritual, political, and even military purposes. Now let us take a look at a Pipe ceremony in detail and explore its meaning and purpose.
First of all, it is important to understand that each tribe has its own various Pipe Ceremonies for different purposes.…
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The AMMSA newspaper will be celebrating its first anniversary on March 18,1984, one year after AMMSA's first publication date. We wish to share this anniversary with our readers, subscribers, advertisers and our funding agencies.
History of AMMSA
"A New Dawn in Aboriginal Communications" became a reality on January 23, 1983, when the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society…
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Following a five month long investigation in the Cold Lake/Bonnyville area, the Department of Public Lands and Wildlife in conjunction with the attorney general's office has charged 78 individuals and firms with the illegal sale of fish and game.
Most of these charges, which total 153 violations collectively, are levied against people holding Native or Metis domestic…
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Over the course of the First Ministers' Conference on the Aboriginal rights, the subject of equality rights monopolized much of the discussion. Debate of the issue became complicated when Harry Daniels, vice-president of the Native Council of Canada (NCC), suggested that the issue of equality did not deal exclusively with sexual equality, but also with equality between the…
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A well deserved "Happy Birthday" to the supporters, readers, staff and members of the board of AMMSA. It's a first of many to come, we strongly believe.
This past year has featured the usual problems one encounters in giving birth to a new organization. I am happy to report that staff and board members confronted the start-up difficulties, as well as those of maintenance…
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When the First Ministers' Conference between Native leaders and the governments ended in Ottawa on March 9 with little progress made toward defining Aboriginal rights, the two groups representing treaty Indians, the Assembly of First Nations and the Coalition of First Nations, agreed that the provincial governments have no authority to determine Aboriginal rights.
Grand…
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The appointment of two band constables to the Paul band's reserve, 55 km west of Edmonton, on March 12 gives federal recognition of that band's power to enforce band bylaws and the Indian Act on their reserve.
Usually the provincial attorney general gives tribal police the power to enforce provincial laws in addition to the powers given to tribal police under the RCMP Act…
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Editorial
The recent ruling by the Alberta Press Council that a Calgary Herald cartoon, which ridiculed the Lubicon Lake Indian band, is racist should encourage those who support Indian rights and freedom of the press.
The Herald has responded by indicating freedom of the press is in jeopardy, but this "freedom" does not mean that anybody, including the press, can…
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A Native medical student who studied medicine to help his people was killed in a car accident two days after his 25th birthday.
Darcy Tailfeathers, a Blood band member and third-year student at the University of Alberta, died Nov. 22 when his car hit a patch of ice near Fox Creek.
Tailfeathers was the university's first and only Indian medical student and recently…
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Environmentalists are trying to quash the proposed dam on the Old Man River, saying Alberta minister Ken Kowalski broke the rules when he approved construction of the $350 million project.
During a hearing a Calgary Court of Queen's Bench, a lawyer for a group opposed to the dam said the government's licence for the project should be cancelled because the government failed…
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The Alberta Press Council has ruled that a Calgary Herald cartoon depicting the Lubicon Lake Indian band was "offensive beyond the bounds of good taste" and "denigrated the Indian race."
The cartoon which appeared Oct. 23 and depicted a four-panel story on the Lubicon band was created by cartoonist Vance Rodewalt. Since the publication of the cartoon the newspaper has…