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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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It's a busy time at the Canadian Native Friendship Center as staff get ready to host two of the center's major events of the year.
The 28th annual All Native Festival, will be held Oct. 12 at the Saxony Motor Inn beginning at 7:30 p.m. Vocals competitions will be featured and on Oct. 13, square dance competitions will take place at the Continental Inn (west Edmonton)…
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It's time Natives and non-Natives decided to "co-exist" says Regena Crowchild, president of the Indian Association of Alberta.
Native issues have been ignored too long by Ottawa, she told about 130 people attending a Native land claims rally Monday in front of the legislative buildings.
It was a message Prime Minister Brian Mulroney obviously understood.
The…
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Eighty years after being kicked out of their homeland, the Rocky Mountain Cree want Jasper National Park back.
And they'll do anything it takes to get the land back - or land similar to it.
They've already taken the first step by setting up an around-the-clock information protest camp just inside the park's eastern gate, and are waiting for National Parks Service…
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Hobbema Indian Wilson Nepoose is Alberta's Donald Marshall, says investigator Jack Ramsay.
Armed with new and old evidence showing that the 45-year-old Samson band member has already spent four years rotting behind bars for a murder he didn't commit, Ramsay says he wants a "full public inquiry" to investigate the reasons behind what he calls "a clear miscarriage of justice…
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The brutality of Oka is being felt in Alberta where differing opinions are pitting Indian against Indian and is also causing a violent non-Native backlash.
One Native has already been killed in a drunken brawl in Edmonton between Natives with opposing views on the Mohawk situation at Oka, Que.
And there is a rising tide of incidents of non-Natives attacking Natives…
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Native MP Willie Littlechild say he wants to be Canada's first Indian-born federal Indian Affairs Minister.
And he wanted the job on his terms.
Littlechild, 46, from the four bands at Hobbema, says he agonized all summer over whether he'd accept the job if the prime Minster offered it to him.
"The more I've thought about it, the more I'd accept that challenge…
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A wild brawl between Mohawks, the military, and police ended the 78-day siege of the Kanesatake drug and alcohol treatment center Wednesday night.
About 50 Warriors, women and children had opted for an "honorable disengagement" to the violent dispute over Indian land claims. They were crossing the army's razor-wire fence surrounding the center to surrender to the military…
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The Lonefighters Society say it will spend the winter near the Oldman River diversion site in an effort to "heal the river" despite the provincial government's injunction forbidding them to continue the river's diversion.
Lonefighter Raymond Crowshoe says they will carry on protesting construction of the Oldman River dam in southern Alberta, which Lonefighters say threaten…
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an upcoming show of sculptures in New York will be the first international exhibition for Alberta Metis artist Brian Clark.
Clark, who originally hails from Fort McMurray, is also an accomplished artist and has completed works in acrylics, plaster, ink and pencil. He sculpts in soapstone, alabaster, wood and metal. "I've been carving for eight years and have been…
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Joline Bull spends a lot of time playing basketball and volleyball. But she also practices scuba diving, jazz and tap dancing, piano, hockey and fastball.
The active 16-year-old from Louis Bull band at Hobbema was named Female Athlete of the Year at the Rita Houle Memorial Awards Banquet in Edmonton last Saturday. "And not only that, she's also the president of the…
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The original one-room jail Almighty Voice was held in after killing a cow till stands at Duck Lake, Ask.
Looking through the tiny window with its iron bars, you can almost see Almighty Voice sitting on a small wooden bed with head bowed - simply not understanding the white man's way.
Almighty Voice, a Cree Indian from One Arrow reserve in Sask., was arrested in…
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Duck Lake is an historic town.
It was near Duck Lake the first shots were fired in the North West Rebellion in 1885.
The town of about 500 people is located between Saskatoon and Prince Albert, Sask. on Highway 11.
A visit would not be complete without visiting the Duck Lake Museum, which was founded in 1959 by local resident Fred Anderson. Over 2,000…
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Prince Albert, Saskatchewan can take a lot of pride in the Northern Indian Nation powwow group which has acted as ambassadors for this northern city many times across North America.
"They are one big happy family, full of fun and enthusiasm," says Eugene Arcand, executive director of the Indians and Metis friendship center in Prince Albert.
And he is just as proud…
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Indian reserves across Saskatchewan face a housing crisis, says a Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nation (FSIN) official who holds the federal government responsible.
If Indian Affairs can't do its job, then Indian people must find someone else to do it for them, said George Peeace, speaking at an all-chiefs conference in Saskatoon.
"In 1867 (when the treaty was…
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A Seattle consultant on national AIDS prevention says it's time Indian women took control of their bodies until Indian men educate themselves on the wonders of family life.
Randy Lewis, a Native American, said women must "start fighting for control of their bodies" until men stop running around and begin to be honest with them.
"Honestly is what Indian people pride…