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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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Ten members were elected to the Board of Directors for the IAA during the final day of the annual assembly held in Eden Valley June 15, 16, and 17.
As results were reported, a tie for one board position in the Treaty 7 area between former treasurer Frances Weaselfat and Alfred Dixon was announced.
In accordance with IAA bylaws the two names were place in a hat and a…
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A three-man "dictator-like" committee armed with widespread powers and the ability to control the purse strings of every Indian nation has been put into place by the federal government warns IAA official, Peter Many Wounds Jr.
In an emotional address at the assembly on the new corporate plan released by the Department of Indian Affairs recently, Many Wounds demanded that…
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Grant Burwash of Leduc is suing the Alberta Amateur Boxing Association for $100,000. Burwash claism the association failed to ensure the fight was judged fairly.
The bout in question took place at the Edmonton's Canadian Native Friendship Centre on April 26. Burwash took to the ring with Fort McMurray's Brent Marchand in the Alberta championship title, when Burwash was…
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Students at Edmonton's Edith Rogers junior high school erected a 21-foot totem pole that they built themselves. Every year the school has multicultural celebrations, and this year they are focussing on Native Canadians.
The 21-foot log was brought in from British Columbia. Carving had to begin immediately while the log was still wet. The students worked in shifts, six…
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An Austrian museum curator has charged that American Indian Movement (AIM) tactics are "very much apparent" in the Lubicon Lake Olympic boycott.
He claims that "the Lubicon themselves certainly would not have had this idea" and goes even further by saying, "their advisor (Fred Lennarson) is a form AIM employee and even if he was not, this is a strategy . . . practised by…
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Although there haven't been any reported AIDS cases in Alberta's Native population, Indian Association of Alberta (IAA) vice-president Lawrence Courtoreille says, "I'd be very concerned if the AIDS (virus) started to hit the Indian communities.
"It never ceases to amaze me ? the type of diseases that follow the whiteman," says Courtoreille, "TB and smallpox that almost…
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A long, heated and at times emotional debate on the participation of Indian nations in the Calgary winter olympic games dominated the final day of the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA) annual assembly.
Several delegates wanted explanations regarding the IAA stand on the Lubicon Lake Cree Band's 47-year old land claim and several demanded the immediate boycott of the…
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This year marked ten years since the first Blue Quills Morning Star class graduated from the two year program.
Saturday June 20, some of the 18 who completed it were reunited at the graduation-reunion celebrations.
The Morning Star Program was set up jointly by the now defunct Alberta Indian Education Centre and the University of Alberta. The Blue Quills Native…
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A new report was released recently on the subject of battered women and it reminded me of a line in an old Humphrey Bogart movie: "The only thing a dame understands is a slap in the face or a slug from a .45."
That cave-man approach was not just the way tough guys like Bogart sometimes handled their women in the movies. It was alos the way that tough-guys and a lot of…
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The president of the Indian Resource Council blasted government for its "Thatcherism" and likened the deputy minister to Adolf Eichmann, the notorious Nazi commander executed for his part of atrocities committed against Jews during the Second World War.
In a scathing attack on recent policies, Joe Dion, president of the Indian Association from 1977 to 1980, called upon…
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An Idaho Nez Perce, Hattie Kauffman, 32, has a new job. She's a feature reporter on ABC-TV's Good Morning America.
Kauffman was born in Grangeville, Idaho, but she was raised in Seattle, Washington where she became a top TV news achor woman. She also worked on an Indian radio news program in Minnesota, a television program called Native Vision in Tacoma before going to New…
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American Indian leader Robert Satiacum has been held in a B.C. prison for the past three and a half years, fighting deportation to the United States.
The hereditary chief of the Puyallup Tribe in Tacoma, Washington was convicted of 42 racketeering charges in 1982 by U.S. authorities, who claim that Satiacum failed to pay sales tax on businesses making him a multi-…
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A four-part series about Metis history over the past 200 years entitled "Daughters of the Country," has recently aired on Superchannel.
The film, produced by Norma Bailey, won the op award at the International Festival of Films by Women this year.
"Daughters of the Country" features a huge cast of professional and amateur Metis actors. Two familiar names are Tantoo…
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Funding for the Aboriginal groups who attempted to negotiate the entrenchment of self-government at the recent First Ministers Conference is being curtailed. Representatives of the Inuit, Metis, and non-status Indians say they are at various stages of shutting down shop.
The Metis National Council has already closed its office. The staff of four at the Inuit…
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Control of Native child welfare should be shifted to Native reserves and settlements, recommends a report to the provincial government.
The report comes three years after Richard Cardinal, a 16-year old Metis foster child, hanged himself. The suicide sparked a review of Native child welfare services in Alberta.
On Tuesday, Social Services Minister Connie Osterman…