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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.
Want end to welfare
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In the fall of 1983, I did an article regarding the band manager for the Dene Tha of northern Alberta, Fred Didzena. At the time he had emphasized to me that it was his dream to fight to and get people off welfare.
Today Didzema's dream remains the same and it is now starting to materialize - starting to, but it seems without the full support of…
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Canada has a new land claims policy - finally- but Native people don't have much to celebrate.
Thirteen years ago, the Government of Canada decided to negotiate with Native groups to settle major land claims. Only two have been settled since then - one in James Bay and one in the western Arctic. The problem was obvious. So In July, 1985, David Crombie appointed a task…
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Are you looking for an alternative way to learn more about the world? Would you like to experience life in another part of your country as well as in another part of the world?
If so, then the Canada World Youth exchange program may be for you. Canada World Youth is a seven-month program in which the first half of the program is spent in Canada and the second half is…
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OTTAWA - The Native women's Association of Canada (NWAC) will receive $387,000 in support of programs to make Canadians more aware of the problems facing Aboriginal women.
"The Native Women's Association of Canada have been very instrumental in addressing many of the issues of importance to Aboriginal women and in helping to make Canadians more aware of their uniquely…
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OTTAWA - The federal government's modifications to the existing comprehensive land claims policy are a grave disappointment and an insult to the first nations, says the national chief of the Assembly of first Nations (AFN).
Georges Erasmus reacted angrily to the recent announcement of a long awaited policy change which he expected would bring up-to-date an archaic…
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Only the beginning
For a few years now, the community of Fort McKay has sought to obtain modern water and sewer facilities for its residents. Now because of people like former chief Dorothy McDonald, this quest will become a reality.
On December 16 at Fort McMurray the present chief of the Fort McKay Band,
Jim Boucher, signed an agreement with the federal and…
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Today, January 14, the funeral of a young man was held at Assumption. His death was due to alcohol.
On this same day, the band manager for the Dena Tha Administration, Fred Didzena, along with his co-ordinator, Bill Pelech, met with the National Native Alcohol and Abuse Program (NNADAP) representative to inquire why approximately $122,000 funded annually through this…
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Ahneen, hello and howdy. Well, here we are into another icy January headed for a frosty February. This weather is exactly right for hockey or hibernating. For those of us who can't sleep for more than two days in a row there are hockey tournaments almost every weekend of the winter, fortunately.
Actually, the whole tournament deal is pretty much a year-round thing.…
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I have been silent too long: I can be silent no longer. I am referring to those who assault the livelihood of trappers and who charge that "inhumane" trapping methods are practiced by Canada's 100,000 trappers of which at least 50 per cent are Native people.
Lately, the daily newspapers have carried numerous articles and letters to the editor from bleeding hearts who…
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Treaty Indian rights to health care will be carefully scrutinized during his term of office, said Henry Quinney, the new chairman of the Alberta Indian Health Care Commission.
"Indians should get the same level of health services as any other citizens, a former chief of the Saddle Lake Indian Band of northeastern Alberta.
Quinney was appointed last July to head the…
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I've got a complaint about all those tabloid newspapers you find at the supermarket checkout counter - the ones with Hollywood gossip and wacko stories about two-headed babies. My complaint is not so much about the quality of the journalism in them, but the fact that they never have any stories about Native people.
There certainly is enough material for the tabloids to…
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Leader of the Official Opposition
The response of the minister of Social Services and the government to the crisis in social assistance is severely inadequate. It will make this holiday season and the New Year one of the grimmest in recent history for next six per cent of Alberta's population.
While the minister has asked 64,000 families to wait for a special…
Lost for 50 years Page 1 The American Museum of Natural History in New York houses what could turn out to be one of the major finds for Plains Indian people. The museum possesses a Cree medicine bundle. Its whereabouts has been unknown to the public for more than half a century.
On September 6, 1934, noted anthropologist David Mandlebaum wrote to his superior in New York that he would…
FORT CHIP CREE
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Mixed reactions have greeted the 12,280 acre land settlement of the Fort Chipewyan Band. The contract includes $26.6 million cash, mineral rights and hunting and trapping rights.
Local people have hailed the settlement as a reason to celebrate. Some others have been critical of the agreement and belittle it. Still others have both praised and censured…
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Ahneen, howdy and yo. And of course Happy New Year to you. If the toy companies do a major share of their business at Xmas, the swollen head pill people probably look forward to this time of year also. Many of the same folks who once sang out "ho, ho, ho," will spend most of January 1 whispering, "oh...oh...oh."
Doesn't it seem to you that one of the best part of having…