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Aboriginal leaders in Quebec and Labrador are disappointed that public hearings have been called into the plan to increase low-level military flights over Innu land.
The 26 days of hearings are scheduled to begin Sept. 19 despite strong objections from the Innu.
The Federal Environmental Assessment Plan ignored the 130 deficiencies identified by Innu experts in the…
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Innu leaders in Davis Inlet, Labrador have succeeded in stalling Newfoundland Justice Minister Edward Roberts' attempts to reinstate the sitting of the provincial court in that community.
The Innu blockaded the lone airstrip into the community on Sept. 6, frustrating the government's plan to fly in court officials.
The Innu set up dozens of oil drums on the…
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If Eagleribs was alive today he would smile with approval. The vision that the Tsuu T'ina medicine warrior related to the Elders more than 100 years ago is coming true.
The boxes he saw surrounding the reserve - suburban homes, just beyond the reserve's eastern border - are bringing opportunity, not danger, just as he prophesied in 1883.
And right now that…
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The Mohawk people at Akwesasne believe that planning today must reflect the thinking of seven generations in the future.
This concept is the basis of sustainable development. It was also the theme of a key note address presented by Henry Lickers to the National Model Forest Network workshop on social and economic indicators of sustainable development.
The workshop…
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Helping young Natives become well adjusted, contributing members of society means taking preventive action, says George Lafond.
The new president of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business thinks communities need to take a new approach and start creating alternatives to futures that offer little more than drug or alcohol addiction and slim hopes of meaningful…
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The Native Council of Nova Scotia needs a lawyer and they're looking through their own constituency to find one.
The council, which represents approximately 15,000 off-reserve Natives in the province, spent almost $100,000 on legal fees for outside law firms last year, says
Dwight Dorey, director of the council. As negotiations with the province on Native self-…
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On Thursday, August 18th, Vancouver Island's three First Nations - the Coast Salish, Nuu-cha-nulth and Kwakwaka'wakw Nations - came together in a powerful display of tradition and unity.
Representatives, dressed in ceremonial regalia, delivered the Queen's baton to the inner harbor of Victoria city, to mark the start of the XV Commonwealth Games.
The baton was…
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Connie Ness usually plays fastball with players much older than she is. It's been that way for years, said the 14-year-old star pitcher, after she led the Edmonton Warriors to a 9-5 win over host Surrey, and a Western Canadian PeeWee Fastball Championship. "I've always played about three years ahead of myself," Ness continued. "But this year and next I'll be only one year ahead…
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At first, Daniel Beatty's singing seemed like a voice crooning in an urban wilderness of glass, chrome and polished marble.
His ballads about green grass, trees, blue skies, love, alcoholism, poverty didn't seem to fit with three floors of up-scale boutiques and grey suits of Bankers' Hall.
But Beatty, and other participants of Calgary's sixth annual International…
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The federal government has gone too far in shrugging off its responsibility for Aboriginal health care. And the chiefs of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations are sick of it.
The Confederacy held a press conference Aug. 12 to discuss the chiefs' main complaint with the current state of affairs in health care. That complaint centres around Alberta premier Ralph…
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Angela Chalmers of Victoria was a hugely popular gold medalist on the second day of the XV Commonwealth Games track and field competition.
The half-Sioux originally from Brandon, Manitoba, smashed the Canadian record in the women's 3,000-metres by five seconds to successfully defend the title she took four years ago to Auckland, New Zealand.
Chalmers, 30, who was…
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The artistic portrayal of the legend of Kawadilikala was a highlight of the opening ceremonies of the XV Commonwealth Games in Victoria, B.C.
Towering, fantastic puppets were accompanied by beautifully costumed performers and elaborate tents, in order to convey the legend. The story of the transformation of a wolf spirit into human beings was told for the first time to…
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The Assembly of First Nations' study on residential schools entitled Breaking the Silence has - among other things - made a lot of people very uncomfortable. In Natives creating residential school myth, written by columnist William Johnson for Southam News, Johnson accused National Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi of using words that "illustrate the verbal and ideological overkill…
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Congratulations to the many Native participants who took a part in making the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria the spectacular event it was.
The success of the games, and the dignity and poise with which you performed your duties there, certainly advanced the cause of First Nations people in Canada and
won the hearts of the people of the British Empire. For this…
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Enough, already. Stop wasting our time and money and get back to business.
This was the best advice the Metis Nation of Alberta assembly could give to its elected leaders and was shouted from the roof tops in Fort McMurray over the Aug. 19 weekend.
The MNA's general assembly broke down into its usual fit of squabbles, infighting and power plays, leaving much of the…