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  • 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…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Winnipeg

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A pocket-sized book called Anishinaabemodaa, meaning Let's Speak Ojibwa, is being created to teach the language to the younger generation of Natives in Manitoba. Myrtle Thomas, one of the creators, was one of the few Natives to attend a Manitoba residential school during the Second World War. Thomas, who retained her language, can remember fellow students being strapped for…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Winnipeg

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A pocket-sized book called Anishinaabemodaa, meaning Let's Speak Ojibwa, is being created to teach the language to the younger generation of Natives in Manitoba. Myrtle Thomas, one of the creators, was one of the few Natives to attend a Manitoba residential school during the Second World War. Thomas, who retained her language, can remember fellow students being strapped for…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Winnipeg

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A pocket-sized book called Anishinaabemodaa, meaning Let's Speak Ojibwa, is being created to teach the language to the younger generation of Natives in Manitoba. Myrtle Thomas, one of the creators, was one of the few Natives to attend a Manitoba residential school during the Second World War. Thomas, who retained her language, can remember fellow students being strapped for…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Winnipeg

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A pocket-sized book called Anishinaabemodaa, meaning Let's Speak Ojibwa, is being created to teach the language to the younger generation of Natives in Manitoba. Myrtle Thomas, one of the creators, was one of the few Natives to attend a Manitoba residential school during the Second World War. Thomas, who retained her language, can remember fellow students being strapped for…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Regina

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A Native woman, who received an obscene phone call and had her house pelted with eggs, said the incidents are linked to her discrimination complaint against a Canada Safeway. Danielle Wookward, 30, said she and two other students were asked by a store employee at the checkout how they intended to pay for $800 worth of groceries. She said she had enough money to pay the bill but…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Regina

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A Native woman, who received an obscene phone call and had her house pelted with eggs, said the incidents are linked to her discrimination complaint against a Canada Safeway. Danielle Wookward, 30, said she and two other students were asked by a store employee at the checkout how they intended to pay for $800 worth of groceries. She said she had enough money to pay the bill but…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Regina

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A Native woman, who received an obscene phone call and had her house pelted with eggs, said the incidents are linked to her discrimination complaint against a Canada Safeway. Danielle Wookward, 30, said she and two other students were asked by a store employee at the checkout how they intended to pay for $800 worth of groceries. She said she had enough money to pay the bill but…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Regina

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A Native woman, who received an obscene phone call and had her house pelted with eggs, said the incidents are linked to her discrimination complaint against a Canada Safeway. Danielle Wookward, 30, said she and two other students were asked by a store employee at the checkout how they intended to pay for $800 worth of groceries. She said she had enough money to pay the bill but…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Winnipeg

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Charges will likely be laid if police find out who's responsible for a poster calling for an open season on Indians, says Manitoba Justice Minister Jim McCrae. New Democrat Elijah Harper, and Indian MLA, brought the matter to the attention of the house. "In place of big game animals, there will be open season on Indians," said Harper, reading from the copter. Thompson RCMP are…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Winnipeg

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Charges will likely be laid if police find out who's responsible for a poster calling for an open season on Indians, says Manitoba Justice Minister Jim McCrae. New Democrat Elijah Harper, and Indian MLA, brought the matter to the attention of the house. "In place of big game animals, there will be open season on Indians," said Harper, reading from the copter. Thompson RCMP are…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Winnipeg

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Charges will likely be laid if police find out who's responsible for a poster calling for an open season on Indians, says Manitoba Justice Minister Jim McCrae. New Democrat Elijah Harper, and Indian MLA, brought the matter to the attention of the house. "In place of big game animals, there will be open season on Indians," said Harper, reading from the copter. Thompson RCMP are…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Winnipeg

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Charges will likely be laid if police find out who's responsible for a poster calling for an open season on Indians, says Manitoba Justice Minister Jim McCrae. New Democrat Elijah Harper, and Indian MLA, brought the matter to the attention of the house. "In place of big game animals, there will be open season on Indians," said Harper, reading from the copter. Thompson RCMP are…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Ottawa

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Twice as many Native infants die as non-Native babies, according to a report by the Canadian Institute of Child Health. The mortality rate is also twice a high in poor families as in rich ones. Death rates from injuries are four times higher among status Indian children at all ages than the national average. The report prompted the Assembly of First Nations to challenge the…