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Native leaders, trappers, hunters, fishermen,. provincial government leaders, and world renowned biologists were all brought together at a three-day conference sponsored by the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists. The symposium was set up to address the issue of Native people and renewable resource management.
Judith Smith, the symposium chairman, says that the…
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Canada's federal prisons are in a "soup of chemicals," the living conditions in them are terrible, they are doing society more harm than good, says Burke Baker, the lawyer for the Boucher family. He charges that the enquiry into William Boucher's suicide has led to no "forthright conclusions," and avoids the real reasons Boucher and so many other inmates committed suicide.
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Sam Sinclair feels the provincial government has been stalling a proposal given to them in November of 1985, regarding the Metis Association of Alberta (MAA) regional council concept, and funding for it.
At a meeting at the Legislature Building in Edmonton April 25 with Minister of Native Affairs Milt Pahl, Sinclair, president of the MAA, commented that although $225,000…
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The unemployment rate for Natives in the city is never under 25% even at the best times, says Hart Cantelon, a Public elations Consultant with Native Outreach.
Responding to recently released statistics on the unemployment rates in Edmonton, Cantelon said the at the 12% rate in Edmonton is a much larger problem for Natives in the city. He added that the unemployment…
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A national Community Health Representative (CHR) conference scheduled for June 22 to 26 in Calgary will be the first national meeting of approximately 500 Band-employed and Medical Services Branch community health representatives.
The main object of the conference is to produce an event designed to strengthen and reinforce continuing importance of the CHR program and the…
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A small group, which includes mothers, girlfriends, Native Elders and friends gathered to discuss ways to help the Native Brotherhood People's Society, of Edmonton Institution.
Since a disturbance at the institution in January, the participation of volunteers has dropped somewhat, and the Brotherhood executive is looking for ways to attract volunteers to come to their…
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A small group, which includes mothers, girlfriends, Native Elders and friends gathered to discuss ways to help the Native Brotherhood People's Society, of Edmonton Institution.
Since a disturbance at the institution in January, the participation of volunteers has dropped somewhat, and the Brotherhood executive is looking for ways to attract volunteers to come to their…
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After a press conference held at the Chinese Multi-Cultural Centre in Edmonton April 9, "Windspeaker" had the opportunity to talk with the vice-president for Treaty 8 of the Indian Association of Alberta, Clifford Freeman.
The press conference called in regard to the recent results of Project Can 85, also published in the Edmonton Journal. Project Can was based on a…
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One hot and seemingly endless summer day, a young raven sat high up in a pine looking as bored as could be. He watched rabbit, deer and fox do those things they do, day in, day out, their whole lives through.
"There has got to be more to living than this," he said to himself. "That's it. I"m going to leave this place and go out into the world to see for myself what more…
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That sound you hear across the land is a sigh of relief.
Once again, it's time for celebration as junior high schools hold their proms, high school their graduation ceremonies and various training, college and university courses end.
For students, it's time to celebrate arrival at a new level of achievement, and to look forward to the next challenge. For parents,…
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BEAVER LAKE RESERVE - A report delivered by Chief Walter Twinn of the Sawridge Band to the Treaty Six Forum here was received with intense interest, as delegates heard that the Sawridge and five other Bands are involved in a lawsuit against the federal government, as a result of the passage of Bill C-31.
This federal law repeals sections of the Indian Act which…
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TREATY SIX FORUMS
BEAVER LAKE RESERVE - Several presentations at the Treaty Six Forum here focused on Indian government powers and on land claims.
Chief Clarence Jewels of the Kamloops Indian Band reported on his band's recent action to tax non-Indian use of conditionally surrendered Indian land. The Kamloops Band has surrendered some of their land in 1939. About…
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New Indians - those reinstated under recent amendments to the Indian Act - have been extended full hunting rights by the provincial government.
Phillip Campiou, northern vice-president of the Native Council of Canada (Alberta), says "general list Indian people contacted the office to ask: Can we hunt on unoccupied crown land?"
Campiou says NCC (AB) checked with…
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A task force report aimed at the "overhaul" of the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) is recommending sweeping changes to tax and financial policies affecting Indian people.
A government task force report on Indian economic development released exclusively to "Windspeaker" this week recommends that government financial assistance be phased over to Indian institutions and…
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The issue of fishing rights as guaranteed by Treaty is far from over. It is not dead and will not be so in the near future if the Cold Lake First Nations can help it.
The Band is emphatic and resolute in "sticking to our guns" regarding the preservation of what they consider to be their legal right.
In a recent interview with Chief Alec Charland of Cold Lake, "…