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A first sign of Native solidarity surfaced last week when elders from bands across Alberta gathered to address treaty rights in the Whitefish Lake school auditorium.
It's a sign the Canadian government cannot ignore, said band Whitefish Lake Chief Ernest Houle.
Unity among Treaty Indians has been too weak for too long he said, and the maze of political procedures…
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Tansi, ahnee and hello. Sometimes these days you think you're ready to settle down. This might be the season for it. This season of reawakening when everything around you is in
the motion of coming alive again. You face the cast. The world becomes itself again, shaking off the sleeping robes of winter.
The land has fingers. They reach down deep inside of you and…
News Briefs
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Internal strife on the board of directors for the Aboriginal Trappers Federation of Canada has forced the organization to recently appoint an interim board and new responsibilities for their executive and membership.
According to a press release issued by the national organization, the chairman of the board, Saskatchewan's Sterling Brass, allegedly…
News Briefs
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The grand chief of Quebec's Cree charges that the federal government intends to break the James Bay agreement because of plans to build two new hydroelectric projects.
Chief Matthew Coon-come was responding to an announcement by Ottawa to unilaterally impose a settlement on the Cree after talks on implementation of the agreement broke down.
The…
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Canada's Indian families desperately need more Native-run day care for their children, the national inquiry into First Nations child care heard last week.
Myrtle Bush, a Mohawk from Kahnawake and chairman of the inquiry, said there is a growing sense of frustration among Native parents, many of whom have applied for federal
funding for day care and been rejected.…
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The federal government acted too swiftly when it called for the testing of pulp mills in Alberta after last year's forced closure of a similar operation in British Columbia, according to an Oceans and Fisheries official.
The results were inconclusive so more intense testing will have to be conducted this spring.
Director of oceanography and contaminants, Jean Piuze…
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The same toxic effluents that caused the closure of a pulp mill in British Columbia were found in the Wapiti River south of Grand Prairie last year.
An Environment Canada report conducted in May 1988 revealed levels of toxic furans were found in four samples of white sucker fish taken form the Wapiti River in May 1988.
An official with Alberta Environment said the…
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A gift horse and a promise to call the prime minister was given to Chief Bernard Ominayak by Premier Don Getty March 9 at the Legislature building.
Majestic Probe, a thoroughbred and former race horse of Getty's, was presented to the chief after Getty held a news conference announcing that he would make a call to the Prime Minister Mulroney.
The presentation was…
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One of the two men charged with the March 27, 1988 killing of Blood Indian Bernard Tallman Jr. Was given a life sentence with no chance of parole for 15 years Feb. 24 at Court of Queen's bench in Lethbridge.
Darcy Lee Watmough, 21, of Fort Macleod, changed his earlier plea of not guilty to guilty of first degree murder.
Crown prosecutor Jim Langston told Court of…
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Assembly of First Nations has declared that all First Nations are facing a crisis in education and will be holding a special chiefs assembly on March 21-22 in Ottawa.
New policies being proposed by the federal government will make it even harder for Native students to succeed.
Proposed new guidelines and capping of funding for post-secondary education, formula…
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A change in the way consultation funding is distributed by the regional office of Indian and Northern Affairs could spell the end of the political organization for Treaty Indians in Alberta.
It could mean the end of the Indian Association of Alberta, said Treaty 8 vice-president Bill Sewepagaham.
The recent decision by the Indian Affairs regional director general…
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Years before the gold rush brought thousands of people into their quiet, peaceful country, Indian people living in the area near present-day Whitehorse, are believed to have met
up with a European explorer, probably from one of the Scandinavian countries.
His blond, almost white hair, coupled with his legendary "strength of a horse," caused the Native people to…
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The Roaring Rapids Friendship Centre was incorporated on Nov. 26, 1980. The end of March 1986, saw a move to a new location and a new building. On July 9, 1986, the name of
the centre was officially changed to Uncle Gabe's Friendship Centre.
Uncle Gabe's has an open door policy which encourages Native and non-Native participation in membership, board positions,…
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The area around Yellowknife, on Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, was undisturbed for centuries, with only Dene and Inuit people living a quiet, harmonious existence with nature in the one million square miles of the great territory.
A few trading posts and missions were scattered here and there. Occasionally explorers intruded, some searching for copper or…
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In Home of the Brave, Navajo matriarch Katherine Smith laments the fact that "there is no traditional prayer, there is not traditional song" that remain of her people.
"All the kids today don't understand Navajo. The young kids believe in Christianity. It's going to be the end of the world," says Smith, the keeper of the sacred bundle that protects her land.
Smith…