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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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The fight to stop the proposed Albert-Pacific pulp mill is not over yet, says the chief of the Cree band at Fort Chipewyan.
Archie Waquan says although a decision on the $1.3 billion pulp mill has been delayed, the Athabasca mill will probably be approved without answers to a lot of questions.
"The delay doesn't mean much because they (the government) still don't…
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The chief of the Sturgeon Lake band says Indians who have regained their status aren't being barred from joining the band.
Ronald Sunshine claimed he was misquoted in a recent newspaper story which said reinstated Indian weren't being permitted to join the Valleyview area reserve.
"They're not barred from the band. We're working together to get the situation…
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The Rocky Mountain Cree say they'll continue to press their claim to compensation, although they've been evicted from Jasper National Park.
They had camped just inside the east gate of the park until Oct. 13 when park wardens evicted them and charged three men with illegal camping. The group had been camping inside Jasper for over a month passing out leaflets explaining…
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Sturgeon Lake Chief Ron Sunshine says six women band members demanding an investigation of the band's financial affairs are on a "witch-hunt."
The women arrived in Edmonton Oct. 14 on a 350-km protest march from the reserve to protest what they called the council's mismanagement of band funds, said the group's spokesperson, Cecilia Soto. They began their walk Sept.22.…
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The Lesser Slave Lake Indian regional Council is celebrating after inking a $108 million agreement last week with Ottawa.
The multi-year transfer agreement, which covers a five-year-period - 1990 to 1995 - is the largest such agreement negotiated to date in Canada.
Council Grand Chief Robert Horseman in an interview said the agreement is a big step toward self-…
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Sept.7: Like every morning for the past eight days the sun broke over the horizon with a promise of another hot day.
The wind that is constant over the prairie land on the Peigan Nation reserve, 25 km from Fort Macleod, had not yet begun to stir the grassy meadows.
Inside the Lonefighters camp the only sound to be heard was a D-9 Caterpillar still working to divert…
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As dusk fell over the berm where the Lonefighters stood guard over the channel they had dug and with a heavily armed RCMP tactical squad hidden in the trees only yards away, tension among the Lonefighters was at its highest.
Medicine man and elder Romeo Yellowhorn knew this. That's why he and his wife Margaret decided to bring his medicine bundle and pipes to the…
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Elder Eddie Bad Eagle Sr. is now in his twilight years but his memory of the Lonefighters Society hasn't diminished in the least.
Through interpreter Peter Stikes With A Gun he talked about decades old memories of the Lonefighters Society as if it was only yesterday.
Sitting on the original site of the Lonefighters' clan on the Peigan reserve, Bad Eagle recalled…
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Peigan Nation Chief Leonard Bastien and most of his council members have had a crisis on their hands for more than a month as members of the band's Lonefighters Society attempted to divert the Oldman River.
They have time and again held emergency meetings to deal with the crisis facing the peigan people, mostly to no avail.
Bastien was caught in a dilemma as the…
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The Lone fighters Society has roots tracing back to the 1700s. But who are the Lonefighters? How they came to be and for what purpose can only be told by Peigan Nation elders.
The Lonef ighters' Society members originally lived along the bands of the Oldman River, which runs a winding course thorough Peigan land in a one-kilometer long tranquil coulee.
There on the…
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Don't forget the warriors, we many never see their like again.
These words were uttered by a veteran of the modern-day Indian wars of the early 70s in response to the apparent end of the American Indian Movement's most active era.
>From 1968 to 1976 AIM and its leaders were the focus of a virtual media circus whose progey remain hunkered down around Oka, Que.,…
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The clock is ticking.
The hand are almost at midnight.
But it's not too late, Canada, to pull back from the brink to which your prime Minster and premier of Quebec have taken you.
Open your ears and listen. Open your eyes and see. Get out of the way.
Your home's on Native land.
For a brief time, it looked as if the country had pulled back from…
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The provincial government has awarded Pop John Paul II Commemorative Scholarships to two northern Alberta students. Leslie R. McLaren and Marion J. Dick will each receive a $5,000 scholarship to assist them in completing their undergraduate degrees in Native studies. McLaren, a student from St. Albert, is attending the University of Alberta and will complete the fourth year of…
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Navajo Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald, who has been suspended from his position since March 1989 pending the outcome of his criminal trial, has won a place on the ballot in November's Navajo general election. MacDonald will face long-time political opponent Peterson Zah in the bid for the Navajo tribal presidency. MacDonald has chosen as his running mate Dr. George P. Lee, 47,…
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An interest-free loan of $25,000 to develop a Native seniors' housing proposal, has been approved for the Metis Urban Housing Corporation by Canada Mortgage and housing Corporation. The $25,000 loan will be used to develop plans to purchase and renovate property for the 27-unit Edmonton project, which is intended to provide homes for Native seniors as well as adults over the age…