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An RCMP detachment on an Alberta reserve has been given notice to vacate the office by Sept. 30 and hand over duties to the all-Native tribal service Oct. 1.
Chief John Ermineskin, of the Ermineskin band in Hobbema, handed a notice of eviction to Staff Sgt. Ken McGilvary Sept. 15, saying the three bands serviced by the detachment are frustrated by the lack of cultural…
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Undercover operations by Fish and Wildlife officials have netted almost two tons of illegally caught game and fish in southern Ontario.
Over a two-year period, an undercover police operation seized 1,800 kilograms of fish, deer and moose meat from Native and non-Native hunters and fishers. The catches were seized under the Ontario Game and Fish Act which prohibits buying…
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It certainly didn't take the Six Nations Chiefs long to prove they belonged with the big boys of Canadian lacrosse.
The Chiefs, a second year franchise, captured the national senior title, the Mann Cup, on Sept. 14. Six Nations had earned the right to play host to the Canadian finals by winning the Ontario Lacrosse Association crown.
In the Mann Cup, Six Nations…
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The peaceful waters of Maopeque Bay, P.E.I. mask tension on the Lennox Island reserve. Since July Mi'kmaq fishers have found their traps smashed, and their lobster sales declared illegal by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
And their chef stands by the government.
The federal department has confiscated or destroyed more than 1,000 untagged lobster traps used…
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In these areas I propose that constitutions be amended so that women have their own houses of parliament, separate from men, with equal power. In Islamic countries or other places where women are often discouraged from being politically exposed to unrelated males, I would propose that only women be able to vote for delegates to the women's…
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One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. If only it was so easy to keep an accurate count of British Columbia's salmon stocks. But counting salmon along the Fraser River is more than child's play. An entire industry, one worth $250 million, relies on systems and technologies employed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to calculate the year's catch and escapement. When…
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They came from seven communities in Quebec and Labrador. Over 150 Innu, protesting military low-level flight training, took control of the fist day of public hearings of the Environmental Review Panel in Goose Bay.
"We are here to say that this is our land," said Conseil Atikamekw et des Montagnais member, Armand Mackenzie. "It is our intention to help you understand why…
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The Innu in Labrador and Quebec will boycott environmental assessment hearings on low-level flight training because they say the public process is unfair.
Hearings began Sept. 19 and will run to Oct. 29 to allow response to an environmental study done by the Department of National Defence. The department insists the training has little or no impact on the wildlife and…
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Chief Joe Norton of Kahnawake is calling upon all Native groups in Canada to support the Mohawks in their dealings with the new Quebec government. If the Parti Quebecois is successful in gaining control over Native people, then the rest of Canada's provinces will follow their example, he said.
Leaders and legislators across the country will be watching Quebec's dealings…
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Where have all the fish gone? They may not have been there in the first place, said Ernie Crey, a spokesman for the Sto:lo Fisheries Authority.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans have reported that of the fish it counted entering the Fraser River system, 1.3 million salmon have gone missing on their way to spawning grounds.
The department has launched an…
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Tripartite land claim negotiations for Davis Inlet have been suspended until the Innu allow the provincial court to operate in their community again.
This was the edict of Newfoundland Minister of Justice Edward Roberts when the military and RCMP-backed attempt to restore the court by force failed earlier this month.
Land claim, relocation and healing program…
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Family and friends of activist Milton Born With A Tooth called it a moral victory as he was sentenced on weapons charges recently.
The leader of the Peigan Lonefighter Society was handed a 16-month term on five weapons charges related to the group's stand against RCMP at the Oldman River dam in September 1990.
"For us it's been a victory," said his sister Lorna…
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Manitoba chiefs gave their enthusiastic endorsement to Phil Fontaine by overwhelmingly electing him to a third term as Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.
Fontaine, 49, was re-elected on the second day of the AMC's sixth annual assembly held in Winnipeg on Sept. 24. He defeated challenger Rob Bushie by a margin of 41 to 17 votes cast by 58 of the 61 chiefs…
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As Quebecers went to the polls to elect a near-record number of separatists to power, Cree Elder Robbie Matthew Sr. was getting ready for his yearly four-month stint on his trapline. Like the vast majority of Native peoples in Quebec, he didn't vote.
"Myself, I was not really concerned about who won and who lost. Myself, I was more concerned about what are we going to do…
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REVIEW
Brother Frank's Gospel Hour
W.P. Kinsella
Harper Collins, 190 pages, $23
As books go, W.P. Kinsella's latest is like a badly behaved and unrepentant teenager. Brother Frank's Gospel Hour is full of deliberately obnoxious attitudes and habits.
For his 16th book, Kinsella revisits his fictional favorite, a rowdy group of Natives he first…