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OTTAWA - The signing of the final agreement reached in the settlement of the Fond du Lac Band's outstanding treaty land entitlement has been announced by Indian Affairs minister David Crombie.
The band voted overwhelmingly in favour of accepting some 30,000 acres of Crown land that were made available by the Province of Saskatchewan as fulfillment of the band's treaty…
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VANCOUVER - Native entertainers from the Northwest Territories will be displaying their talents to the world when Expo '86 in Vancouver opens May 2.
May 2 to October 13, performers and demonstrators from every region in the NWT, will be featured in music presentation and arts and crafts, as artists, and story-telling as each of the four district performing areas.
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A preliminary report revealed that the government's failure to deliver services effectively in isolated communities contributed to the fatal drinking party in Peerless
Lake March 10 that claimed the lives of six Natives.
Milt Pahl, minister of Native Affairs, received the preliminary report on April 4, and said the province will be seeking solutions although he…
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Views on Native suicides can be put into two general camps: a group which sees them as symptoms of a major problem in the community, and a group which remains skeptical about just how bad the problem is.
In some villages, there are rather startling suicided clusters; eight or ten dead by their own knife in a community of 200 in a one-year period. Clusters and groups of…
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HEART LAKE RESERVE - The former chief of this reserve, Eugene Monias has suffered pain and has deep concerns for the well-being of his people.
"I have been chief of Heart Lake Reserve for 22 years. These were 22 long years of great pain and great joy for me, both as chief and as a person. So many things have happened during this time. But what remains is that today we…
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THE GAMBLER
Say, was that you I saw at the racetrack last weekend or at the bingo the other night? No, eh. Well, someone was wearing your clothes and trying to pretend it wasn't you and walked by me at the casino.
At every bingo and every racetrack I've been at a significant number of intent brown faces have been there, too. Now, are you absolutely sure that wasn't…
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Journalists are supposed to be constantly in search of the truth. Sometimes it is difficult to tell what the truth is...and even more difficult to determine who's telling the truth.
When we encounter a situation in which the parties involved make settlements which are directly conflicting with each other we must, of course, present both sides.
But our…
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The Chief of the Fort McMurray Cree Band at Gregoire Lake, 60 km south of McMurray, is hopeful that construction of a rehabilitation treatment centre will take place there in the near future.
In a letter to the Indian Medical Health Services Commission, Chief Robert Cree and his council stated that a needs assessment study has identified that alcohol and drug abuse has…
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COLD LAKE - Recent drastic cuts in the world price of oil has caused a shake-up at the Cold Lake Esso Resources of Canada plants.
In an effort to reduce costs, the Calgary head office has issued a voluntary early retirement package to employees. Aimed at two separate groups, the program offers pension benefits to those employees 55 years old or over and who have a minimum…
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The Stoney people of the Alexis community recently lost Peter Alexis, one of their foremost spiritual Elders, who died suddenly on February 28, 1986.
Alexis Indian Reserve is located about 50 miles north-east of Edmonton.
Peter Alexis, who previously had heart trouble, passed away at 77 years old during a religious ceremony. He was singing a traditional drum song…
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George Chatsis, a 43-year-old full-blooded Cree Indian from the Poundmaker Reserve in Saskatchewan, will be the New Democratic Party candidate in the riding of Calgary Buffalo.
Chatsis won the nomination at a nomination meeting March 13. His candidacy breaks new political ground in the Calgary area as it is the first time that a full-blood Indian has run in a provincial…
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Statistics Canada, with the involvement of Employment and Immigration Canada, has launched a recruitment program that will be directed at the engagement of students and youth for the census representative portions.
There are also employment opportunities for individuals other than students or youth for census positions.
In addition to the recruitment of students-…
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Lack of employment for Native people in the oil industry at Cold Lake, Bonnyville and St. Paul and the area is a real concern for Eric Ward, the vice-president and chairman of the Zone 2 Regional Council for the Metis Association of Alberta (MAA).
Recently in Edmonton on a business trip, Ward explained some of the problems that Metis Locals and Native people generally are…
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On March 14, I joined a trainload of people at the CN station in Edmonton, who were enroute to Vancouver to support the Haida Indians.
The Haidas have been trying since 1974 to stop logging on certain areas of their traditional ancestral lands, specifically Lyell Island and South Moresby Islands in the Queen Charlottes.
What has evolved since then is an ugly…
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Grouard residents fear that plans are underway to move major Alberta Vocational Centre programs to High Prairie, and that this is the first step in plans to move the entire facility to High Prairie.
Grouard was once a major fur trading post, but today the community of 250 relies on the vocational centre almost entirely for its economic base.
Fred Dumont, director…