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Pat Piche started sewing at the age of five. She hasn't looked back since.
Piche, now a clothing designer and producer, is working hard to become a successful business person. "It all started when we danced as a family and attended powwows together. My mother and my grandmother helped me with sewing my first powwow outfits," she explains,
Piche has just completed a…
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After 14 years arduous negotiations the $500 million Dene-Metis land claim agreement is dead, said Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon.
"The cabinet has authorized me to terminate negotiations with the Dene Nation and the Metis Association of the Northwest Territories on the overall comprehensive land claim agreement," said Siddon at a news conference at the Nisku Inn,…
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Canada's first Native MP is being sued for not representing his constituents' opposition to the Goods and Services Tax in Parliament, says a party to the suit.
"We're upset because he didn't consider the way we, the people he represents, feel about the GST," says ErinWall of Rimbey.
Wall, along with seven other anti-GST voters, signed a statement of claim against…
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A solution to logging and oil companies shut out of land claimed by the Lubicon Lake Indian band in northern Alberta may not be found unless the band is prepared to negotiate on the advice put forward by the government, says Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon.
"I hope the chief and council will be prepared to sit down and hopefully we'll be able to negotiate an agreement.…
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Lubicon Lake Chief Bernard Ominayak has issued a final warning to logging companies working on lands claimed by his band.
Unauthorized logging equipment on lands claimed by the band "will be subject to removal at any time," said the chief, who told protesters gathered outside the Manulife building in Edmonton Nov. 8 "this is the only warning they'll get.
"we have…
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Peigan Lonefighter Milton Born With A Tooth waved from behind the smoky window on the top floor of the Calgary Remand Centre to dozens of his supporters as they gathered below on a cold, windswept sidewalk in a Nov.8 protest. They chanted their greetings and their opposition to the justice system's decision not to allow bail to the Lonefighters Society leader.
Born With A…
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The justice system is failing Native people. It always has and unless co-operation changes are made, it always will.
One doesn't have to look too hard to find evidence that points to the truth of this. A 1988 Statistics Canada report stated Native inmates made up 11 per cent o the population in federal prisons while Native people collectively comprised only three per cent…
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The conspiracy of silence about child abuse in Indian residential schools is over.
It's time Canada's mainstream churches confronted the criminal activity that happened in their own boarding schools. Unfortunately, they can't be trusted to investigate themselves. They have proven that, again and again.
The Canadian government, which depended on the churches to…
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The wheels of justice grind slowly in Ottawa.
But the presses are running at high speed to print Canadian money.
At least that's the impression one gets by looking at the tab for the Oka crisis, which will end up costing the Canadian and Quebec governments at least $130 million.
Wow!
As NDP Native affairs' critic Bob Skelly observed it's a "clear case…
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A Saskatchewan treaty Indian charged with hunting moose out of season says he will battle the government in court on constitutional grounds.
Harvey Adam, now living in Edmonton, says he is "not guilt," because he's protected by treaty rights entrenched in the Constitution.
"As a treaty Indian I have a sacred right to hunt so I refuse to plead guilty to hunting moose…
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A vice-president of the Indian Association of Alberta says he is not guilty of poaching following a two-year provincial sting operation resulting in charges.
Percy Potts, vice-president for Treaty 6, was charged with poaching Nov. 13 along with eight other people and a numbered Alberta Company.
Potts says he "has never hunted for the purpose of trafficking. This is…
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The credibility of Native leaders ranks high with Canadians, according to an Angus Reid poll.
When the poll, conducted during the final week of the Oka crisis, asked Canadians who had credibility in dealing with Native issues, Native leaders scored a whopping 70 per cent compared to the federal government's 42 per cent. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney fared the worst - only…
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Danny Stonewalker says he is ready for his title fight with World Boxing Organization (WBO) light heavyweight champion Michael Moorer.
And it's a special fight to Stonewalker, since he's the first Albertan and Native Canadian to challenge a world title holder.
"By the way, Poppy will be with me," Stonewalker smiles about his four-year-old daughter who was there when…
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The Metis nation is alive and well and flourishing, says Metis Nation of Alberta president Larry Desmeules.
"Thanks to the likes of Louis Riel and others like him, we have a bright future," Deseules told a crowd gathered outside the Alberta legislature Nov. 16 to commemorate the 105th anniversary of the hanging of the legendary Metis leader.
Members of the Metis…
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A professor of Native Studies at the University of Lethbridge wants the legal system to become more just and less punitive.
Leroy Little Bear, speaking at a seminar on Native people and the justice system in Edmonton, says it's not enough for lawyers to learn about the culture of Natives. "It's more important to achieve justice."
He says the law is "too scientific…