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CALGARY - The Calgary Olympics Committee (OCO '88) has been dragged into center stage by Treaty 7 chiefs who this week demanded that OCO officials pressure Ottawa to reopen the Lubicon Lake band land claim.
In an interview after a day-long meeting in Calgary Monday, Indian Association of Alberta Treaty 7 Vice-President, Narcisse Blood, announced that the chief's want to…
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CALGARY - The Calgary Chamber of Commerce Native Awareness Days was one of the most successful, says George Calliou, a Cree member of the chamber and member of its Native Advisory Board.
The Calgary Chamber of Commerce holds the week-long event every year to promote and support Native people in the business world.
This year the guest speaker was Bob Blair,…
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Time is running out to hold the next First Ministers Conference on Aboriginal Rights - the deadline is now less than seven months away - but you wouldn't know it
from watching the federal government. Federal diddling is responsible for the latest snag in the preparations for what could be the last chance to enshrine the Native rights to self-government in the Constitution…
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LETHBRIDGE - Professor Phil Lane, co-ordinator of the Four World Development Project, at the University of Lethbridge has been invited as a special guest to Assissi, Italy by the World Wildlife Fund International to participate in a special conference to launch a world-wide conservation campaign.
For the first time, the global conservation network met with representatives…
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The 1986-87 Priority Employment Program (PEP) will provide $12 million in job creation funds.
"During the winter months, the seasonal increase in unemployment requires priority considerations. Therefore, the Government of Alberta will again meet this demand through the operation of PEP. This year, I fully expect some 4,000 unemployed Albertans to find jobs," Alberta…
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CALGARY - Negotiations are underway between the federal government and the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA) to amend the Access to Information Act, thereby preventing any media probes into band financial records. In an interview after speaking to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce last week, IAA present Gregg Smith told reporters that the association is unhappy with the Access…
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CALGARY - The Metis Association of Alberta (MAA) will be holding its annual general assembly in November, but President Sam Sinclair isn't saying if he'll call for a new mandate after recent financial difficulties.
The financial difficulties arose after the MAA spent an estimated $73,000 of its core funds on its MAA Housing Department which administers Canada Mortgage and…
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CALGARY - A review of the Metis National Council (MNC) structure and the five presidents is desperately overdue if Metis people aren't to stay in limbo for another hundred years, said a delegates at the annual MNC assembly held in Calgary last week.
Frank Tomkins, a delegate from Saskatchewan, blasted the unfair structure and
the five presidents saying the only…
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CALGARY - After more than four months with no one to steer the ship, the Calgary branch of the Department of Indian Affairs has at last announced a successor to Gordon Williams.
He is Ojibway Indian Bill Dixon who took up his new post as Calgary district manager September 2.
Dixon, from Ontario, has been with the department for four years and has worked with…
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Yo, hello and tansi. Well last week we set out talking money. How shooniah it snuck up on us. This week how we sneak back, around, under and hopefully over it.
Now this glittery stuff symbolized by a snake crawling under two sticks has some day-to-day behaviour problems attached to it.
Say, for example, you're forced to borrow money from a friend. As you are asking…
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Enoch Band
Who am I?
In these days of age when there is new technology, new changes, I tend to dwell in thinking of how I fit in the changes.
One thing comes to mind as I noticed in the mirror while I shave. My skin is white but I am Indian deep down. Through some personal experiences I found that one thing sticks out in my mind in relation to my appearance…
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The Indian Association of Alberta must be applauded for its decision to spearhead "an all-out war against alcohol and drug abuse."
It's admission that this is "a problem that can no longer be ignored" is an important first step toward resolving that problem. For too long, there has been a reluctance to admit that this problem is as widespread and damaging as it really…
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Control over one's resources and one's destiny has and continues to be an evolving situation in Native circles. That condition has not been an easy one to resolve, but one organization is initiating action to further the interests of Native trappers in Alberta.
On September 22 and 23, interested trappers, delegates and resource people from the prairie provinces, Ontario…
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CALGARY - Native people are above average workers and should be actively encouraged to enter the workforce as well as start their own businesses, says a Calgary oil company president.
Bob Blair, president of Nova, an Alberta Corporation, was the guest speaker during the opening day of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce annual Native Awareness Week held September 22 to 26.…
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CALGARY - A petition with more than 300 signatures from angry Blood band members was presented to officials from the Calgary Department of Indian Affairs Tuesday.
The petition was circulated to protest a Blood chief and council decision earlier this month to change their terms of office from two to four years.
Band members Duncan Bottle and John Chief Moon…