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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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For cowboy Kevin Langevin, a championship rodeo last weekend in Palm Springs, Calif., was his ticket to world-wide fame.
The 19-year-old Metis man from Rich Lake, Alta. is now the world champion bareback rider, taking the title at the Indian National Finals Rodeo held over the Oct. 18 weekend.
"I'm the world champ in the Indian ranks," he said with an ear-to-ear…
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Of the population of Saskatchewan, Aboriginal people have the most to gain monetarily from getting an education, and the most to lose by not getting one, reports a study done by University of Saskatchewan economics professor Eric Howe.
Education and Lifetime Income for Aboriginal People in Saskatchewan uses statistical information and trends in employment and wage rates…
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A decision on a complaint filed against Calgary Herald columnist Ric Dolphin by an Ontario Aboriginal woman has been put over until February by the Alberta Press Council (APC). The complainant believes the reason why the decision was held over was because the council did not want to deal with it.
Sue Keedwell, a 40-year-old woman of Ojibway heritage who lives in Kitchener…
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Only days after Windspeaker reported that a police cover-up was being alleged in the very public beating of a Native man in Toronto, two city police officers were arrested.
After a four-month investigation by members of Internal Affairs, the officers were charged on Sept. 26 with assaulting Ramsey Whitefish on June 2 in the Bloor Street West and Borden Street area of the…
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A national conference on fiscal relations held at the Squamish Nation Recreation Centre near Vancouver on Sept. 26 and 27, turned out to be a very civil clash between chiefs, a former chief and technicians who support the proposed fiscal institutions act and those who fear its potential effects.
Former Kamloops Indian Band Chief Manny Jules joined current Assembly of First…
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The British Columbia chapter of the National Aboriginal Veterans Association passed a motion in mid-October to accept Chinese Canadian veterans as associate members.
Chapter president Joy Ward said the Chinese veterans and Native veterans on the West Coast have helped each other as they seek to remedy the injustices they were subjected to when they returned home from war…
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Dear Editor:
Your paper's recent coverage of the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management bill provides your readers with only one side of the story. By launching into critiques rather than first pointing out the intentions and history behind this piece of proposed legislation, your readers are left with a misrepresentation of the facts. Re: "Financial institutions…
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I have always been suspicious of political correctness-the imposition of a set of beliefs, supposedly correct (though the water tends to get a bit muddy there) for the betterment of society. Some have even described its more radical form as the new fascism.
I guess you could say it falls under the category of "seemed like a good idea at the time." You put that together…
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Dear Editor:
On Sept. 20, the people of the Atikamekw First Nation, situated in central Quebec, elected their first Kitchi Okima-grand chief-since the election of Kawaisekeck (Jean-Baptiste Boucher) in July 1887. In doing so, the Atikamekw Nation, composed of three communities, Manawan, Wemotaci, and Opitciwan, made an important step in re-establishing a national…
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Dear Editor:
Across Canada First Nations are struggling to break the shackles of colonialism and give meaning to self-determination.
Today some 90 First Nations collect property taxes from leaseholders and others occupying their lands and use these revenues to improve the quality of life within their communities. Approximately $40 million is raised each year.…
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In case it wasn't reported in any of our respected mainstream Canadian press, I want you to know that on July 28 some 60,000 Colombian women converged at the capital of Bogota for an unprecedented peace march.
Thanks to the Canada Columbia Solidarity Campaign (CCSC) the march included a show of Canadian solidarity (Toronto-style) in which four other women and I joined…
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Editorial
A false rumor that a Native political activist was stockpiling guns led to the mobilization of a fully equipped tactical unit from an elite RCMP anti-terrorist squad on Vancouver Island in September. Less than a few weeks later, young non-Native people charged with a hate crime for shooting up a reserve school and homes have those charges under the Criminal Code…
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As you could have predicted, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Matthew Coon Come and Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Robert Nault had widely varying views on the importance of the speech from the throne delivered by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson on Sept. 30.
Coon Come saw it as an unambitious re-hash of previous promises.
"We've all heard this…
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Even the most casual observer of First Nations' politics knows there's something strange going on at Barriere Lake in Quebec. With so many different stories being told by the various factions in and around the community, however, the question of exactly what it is that's going on is hard to answer.
The Algonquin band claims the federal government backed out of negotiations…
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A dawn raid on the Vancouver Island home of a West Coast Warrior Society (WCWS) member has many Native people wondering where they stand with Canada's intelligence community.
A tactical RCMP unit that was created under the Anti-Terrorism Act, the Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (INSET), evacuated the neighborhood and then kicked in the front door of John…