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  • Windspeaker Staff, Edmonton

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Court of Queen's Bench Justice H.S. Prowse has ruled that Treaty Indian George Alexson of Eden Valley Reserve should have asked a rancher's permission before shooting two elk on leased grazing land. But Indain Association of Alberta president Roy Louis said courts can't take away he treaty right of Indians to hunt on public lands. On Jan. 19, Prowse overturned a Provincial Court…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Edmonton

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Ottawa has threatened to withdraw its last offer of $45 million to the Lubicon Indian Band if it isn't soon accepted. A government spokesman Ken Colby said its companies, who have shut down their operations near Little Buffalo, should feel free to resume their activities. "No government can respond to political embarrassment or threats of lawlessness by meeting demand that have…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Edmonton

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Ottawa has threatened to withdraw its last offer of $45 million to the Lubicon Indian Band if it isn't soon accepted. A government spokesman Ken Colby said its companies, who have shut down their operations near Little Buffalo, should feel free to resume their activities. "No government can respond to political embarrassment or threats of lawlessness by meeting demand that have…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Edmonton

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Ottawa has threatened to withdraw its last offer of $45 million to the Lubicon Indian Band if it isn't soon accepted. A government spokesman Ken Colby said its companies, who have shut down their operations near Little Buffalo, should feel free to resume their activities. "No government can respond to political embarrassment or threats of lawlessness by meeting demand that have…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Edmonton

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Ottawa has threatened to withdraw its last offer of $45 million to the Lubicon Indian Band if it isn't soon accepted. A government spokesman Ken Colby said its companies, who have shut down their operations near Little Buffalo, should feel free to resume their activities. "No government can respond to political embarrassment or threats of lawlessness by meeting demand that have…

  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Edmonton

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A government plan to kill diseased bison in northern Alberta is being slapped down by local Indian chiefs who are demanding the animals be medically treated instead.

They charge that Agriculture Canada is bending to pressure be ranchers who fear their cattle will be infected by tuberculosis if the 4,400 free-roaming bison in Wood Buffalo National Park aren't destroyed.…

  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Edmonton

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A government plan to kill diseased bison in northern Alberta is being slapped down by local Indian chiefs who are demanding the animals be medically treated instead.

They charge that Agriculture Canada is bending to pressure be ranchers who fear their cattle will be infected by tuberculosis if the 4,400 free-roaming bison in Wood Buffalo National Park aren't destroyed.…

  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Edmonton

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A government plan to kill diseased bison in northern Alberta is being slapped down by local Indian chiefs who are demanding the animals be medically treated instead.

They charge that Agriculture Canada is bending to pressure be ranchers who fear their cattle will be infected by tuberculosis if the 4,400 free-roaming bison in Wood Buffalo National Park aren't destroyed.…

  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Edmonton

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A government plan to kill diseased bison in northern Alberta is being slapped down by local Indian chiefs who are demanding the animals be medically treated instead.

They charge that Agriculture Canada is bending to pressure be ranchers who fear their cattle will be infected by tuberculosis if the 4,400 free-roaming bison in Wood Buffalo National Park aren't destroyed.…

  • Dana Wagg, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Edmonton

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Natives have to start seeing health careers as valuable and attainable professions, according to health consultants.

"It is heartbreaking as a Native individual how few Indians think a health career is within their grasp," said Dianne Moir, a consultant with the Alberta Indian Health Care Commission.

She's currently working on a project for the commission to…

  • Dana Wagg, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Edmonton

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Natives have to start seeing health careers as valuable and attainable professions, according to health consultants.

"It is heartbreaking as a Native individual how few Indians think a health career is within their grasp," said Dianne Moir, a consultant with the Alberta Indian Health Care Commission.

She's currently working on a project for the commission to…

  • Dana Wagg, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Edmonton

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Natives have to start seeing health careers as valuable and attainable professions, according to health consultants.

"It is heartbreaking as a Native individual how few Indians think a health career is within their grasp," said Dianne Moir, a consultant with the Alberta Indian Health Care Commission.

She's currently working on a project for the commission to…

  • Dana Wagg, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Edmonton

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Natives have to start seeing health careers as valuable and attainable professions, according to health consultants.

"It is heartbreaking as a Native individual how few Indians think a health career is within their grasp," said Dianne Moir, a consultant with the Alberta Indian Health Care Commission.

She's currently working on a project for the commission to…

  • Dana Waggm, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Calgary

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A lawyer for paralyzed Rodney Pelletier intend to file a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the RCMP.

The claim will be for at least $2 million, "because of the seriousness of his injury, potential loss of future income and costs for future care," said lawyer Brian Devlin in a telephone interview from Calgary.

Pelletier, 21, a Treaty Indian from Eden Valley…

  • Dana Waggm, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Calgary

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A lawyer for paralyzed Rodney Pelletier intend to file a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the RCMP.

The claim will be for at least $2 million, "because of the seriousness of his injury, potential loss of future income and costs for future care," said lawyer Brian Devlin in a telephone interview from Calgary.

Pelletier, 21, a Treaty Indian from Eden Valley…