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  • Doug Johnson, Windspeaker Contributor, Ottawa

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Some 400 marchers representing off-reserve Natives converged on the Progressive Conservative convention June 12 to hear leaders, Elders and young people rip into the Conservative government.

However, few, if any, of the Tory delegates took much notice of the demonstration. Some made unflattering gestures at the protesters; another imitated an Indian war cry. Most of the…

  • Doug Johnson, Windspeaker Contributor, Ottawa

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Through four days of meetings, representatives of Native housing corporations worked out a plan to try and get funding for off-reserve housing reinstated.

Pat Apikan, chair of the National Aboriginal Housing Committee, told Windspeaker that nothing was going to stop the group from getting the federal government to stop the funding cuts.

In the last federal budget;…

  • Doug Johnson, Windspeaker Contributor, Ottawa

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Through four days of meetings, representatives of Native housing corporations worked out a plan to try and get funding for off-reserve housing reinstated.

Pat Apikan, chair of the National Aboriginal Housing Committee, told Windspeaker that nothing was going to stop the group from getting the federal government to stop the funding cuts.

In the last federal budget;…

  • Doug Johnson, Windspeaker Contributor, Ottawa

Page 2

Through four days of meetings, representatives of Native housing corporations worked out a plan to try and get funding for off-reserve housing reinstated.

Pat Apikan, chair of the National Aboriginal Housing Committee, told Windspeaker that nothing was going to stop the group from getting the federal government to stop the funding cuts.

In the last federal budget;…

  • Doug Johnson, Windspeaker Contributor, Ottawa

Page 2

Through four days of meetings, representatives of Native housing corporations worked out a plan to try and get funding for off-reserve housing reinstated.

Pat Apikan, chair of the National Aboriginal Housing Committee, told Windspeaker that nothing was going to stop the group from getting the federal government to stop the funding cuts.

In the last federal budget;…

  • Trevor Sutter, Regina Leader-Post, Lebret Saskatchewan

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More than a dozen female students attending the Indian Residential School have attempted suicide over the past year - a statistic that has alarmed school and hospital administrators.

One girl died and officials haven't been able to pin down what's causing the incidents in the Native-run school of almost 200 students.

"I don't think it's a result of anything we're…

  • Trevor Sutter, Regina Leader-Post, Lebret Saskatchewan

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More than a dozen female students attending the Indian Residential School have attempted suicide over the past year - a statistic that has alarmed school and hospital administrators.

One girl died and officials haven't been able to pin down what's causing the incidents in the Native-run school of almost 200 students.

"I don't think it's a result of anything we're…

  • Trevor Sutter, Regina Leader-Post, Lebret Saskatchewan

Page 2

More than a dozen female students attending the Indian Residential School have attempted suicide over the past year - a statistic that has alarmed school and hospital administrators.

One girl died and officials haven't been able to pin down what's causing the incidents in the Native-run school of almost 200 students.

"I don't think it's a result of anything we're…

  • Trevor Sutter, Regina Leader-Post, Lebret Saskatchewan

Page 2

More than a dozen female students attending the Indian Residential School have attempted suicide over the past year - a statistic that has alarmed school and hospital administrators.

One girl died and officials haven't been able to pin down what's causing the incidents in the Native-run school of almost 200 students.

"I don't think it's a result of anything we're…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, VIENNA AUSTRIA

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A single letter deleted from the United Nation's draft document on human rights will deprive Canadian Natives of their inherent right to self-determination, a Canadian non-government organization representative said.

The "s" in the term "Indigenous peoples" was removed from the fourth draft of the UN's Vienna Declaration for States at the request of the Canadian…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, VIENNA AUSTRIA

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A single letter deleted from the United Nation's draft document on human rights will deprive Canadian Natives of their inherent right to self-determination, a Canadian non-government organization representative said.

The "s" in the term "Indigenous peoples" was removed from the fourth draft of the UN's Vienna Declaration for States at the request of the Canadian…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, VIENNA AUSTRIA

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A single letter deleted from the United Nation's draft document on human rights will deprive Canadian Natives of their inherent right to self-determination, a Canadian non-government organization representative said.

The "s" in the term "Indigenous peoples" was removed from the fourth draft of the UN's Vienna Declaration for States at the request of the Canadian…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, VIENNA AUSTRIA

Page 1

A single letter deleted from the United Nation's draft document on human rights will deprive Canadian Natives of their inherent right to self-determination, a Canadian non-government organization representative said.

The "s" in the term "Indigenous peoples" was removed from the fourth draft of the UN's Vienna Declaration for States at the request of the Canadian…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Saskatoon

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Aboriginal enterprise needs access to funds from non-government sources if Natives are to escape from the poverty cycle, the president of the Canadian Council on Native Business said.

Establishing an Aboriginal economic development bank through the private sector is just one of eight recommendations that the council plans to present to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Saskatoon

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Aboriginal enterprise needs access to funds from non-government sources if Natives are to escape from the poverty cycle, the president of the Canadian Council on Native Business said.

Establishing an Aboriginal economic development bank through the private sector is just one of eight recommendations that the council plans to present to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal…