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Widening of Highway 2 and construction of an access road to the future hospital site in Slave Lake are included in a tender announced by Alberta Transportation and Utilities Minister Al "Boomer" Adair and Slave Lake MLA Pearl Calahasen.
The work, scheduled for completion this fall, will include paving of 21.9 kilometers on Highway 88 near Utikuma Lake. Highway 2 will be…
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"Indian people find themselves in a leaking canoe, roaring down a churning river without paddles. The raging river represents the direction of society and the Canadian government and the lack of paddles represents the Indians' inability to exercise our federal franchise in any meaningful manner."
That analogy made to emphasize the powerlessness Indian people feel in…
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A small Treaty 8 Indian band in northern B.C. is locked in a land-claim dispute with the government similar to the one that has gripped the Lubicon Indians for more than 50 years.
Indian leaders of the McLeod Lake Band are now in a desperate search for members they believe are living in Alberta.
Band councilor Verne Solonas said the TseKeh'ne Indians are fighting…
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Hundreds of Native volunteers are desperately needed for the North American Indigenous Games to be held in Edmonton June 30-July 8.
With just five weeks to go about 2,500 to 3,000 people are needed to fill an array of positions from clerk-typists to receptionists, to drivers.
About 800 volunteers have been drawn from Edmonton's Chinese, Filipino, and English-Canada…
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Quietly a circle forms, hands hold hands and heads bow while advisor/elder Harley Crowchild says a prayer. Sweetgrass burns and an inmate uses a feather to send whiffs of smoke on the praying participants.
The Native criminal justice task force was getting a firsthand insight into Native spirituality as part of a May 11 visit to Drumheller medium correctional institution…
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The Enoch Cree Nation has launched a $450 million lawsuit against Indian Affairs.
The reserve is asking for $400 million for lost revenue and another $50 million as compensation for land turned over to the federal government.
The band accuses Indian Affairs of breach of trust, negligence, mismanagement of oil and gas revenues and wrongfully taking reserve land,…
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From the opening-day pipe ceremony to the Friday evening feast and round dance, Native Awareness Week in St. Paul emphasized communication, understanding and friendship between Natives and non-Natives. It stressed education as the tool to achieve all three.
Regional high school Native education coordinator Andy Jackson, the Native parent advisory group and the 18…
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Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak pulled no punches in a speech to St. Paul high school students during the town's Native Awareness Week.
A good number of the 450 people in attendance came to hear Ominayak, who dealt with the problems facing aboriginal people like land claims and treaty rights' disputes. Awareness week ran from April 30-May 4.
"If the government feels…
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In 1930 Jean and Joe Willier made their way up to the altar inside a Roman Catholic church and were married in holy matrimony.
Sixty years later on April 30, they celebrated their marriage by renewing their vows at their Sucker Creek church.
They arrived at the church in a horse-drawn carriage. Don Calliou, a former chief of Sucker Creek Indian Reserve and a long-…
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The city's two school boards are ignoring Native calls to set up a separate Indian school for Calgary's rapidly expanding Native population.
It's needed in order to stop Indian children from dropping out, senior administrators with the public and Catholic school boards were told at a recent Native urban parent urban parent advisory committee conference.
With…
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Calgary Native Awareness Week organizers have their sights set on making the seven-day extravaganza a year-round event to promote aboriginal culture in southern Alberta.
It's a vision they hope will be recognized throughout North America.
Native awareness week co-ordinator Robert Laboucane said his group wants to turn their efforts into a world-class operation…
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Thirty-two years ago my family suffered the first of many losses of human life to alcohol. Although it was not a direct result of alcohol, one of my brothers died attempting to appease an alcoholic. He accidently shot himself while hunting ducks for hangover soup.
George turned 18 on Sept. 18, 1958 and died less than a month later. He wasn't an alcoholic so it remains a…
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"You should be ashamed Canada for what you're doing to the Lubicon Cree of northern Alberta."
That's the message hear around the world as our federal government is admonished for its treatment of Native people. And it's not just from left-wing radical do-gooder groups that pounce one very social injustice.
Many international religious…
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The Slave Lake Friendship Center hopes recent federal budget reductions don't cut into its core funding, says executive director Peggy Roberts.
She's still not sure if her center will be affected by the Feb.20 cuts because final figures haven't been given to the national friendship center office.
"Our staff is several years behind in cost-of-living increase," she…
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A Native affairs' caucus committee set up by the province to address political concerns on a provincial level is being viewed with a critical eye by Alberta's top Indian leader.
But Roy Louis, president of the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA), is frustrated the City of Edmonton hasn't go a similar plan going on the local front.
The six-member provincial committee…