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  • Dina O'Meara, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Walpole Ontario

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For the first time in the province's history, a Native midget hockey team has taken the All Ontario cup.

A jubilant Walpole Island team carried their coach Stacey Kicknosway around the Walpole Community Centre after winning game four against the Zurich Thunder Team 5-3 in a best of seven series.

And that with a rookie coach and three valuable members playing with…

  • Dina O'Meara, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Walpole Ontario

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For the first time in the province's history, a Native midget hockey team has taken the All Ontario cup.

A jubilant Walpole Island team carried their coach Stacey Kicknosway around the Walpole Community Centre after winning game four against the Zurich Thunder Team 5-3 in a best of seven series.

And that with a rookie coach and three valuable members playing with…

  • Dina O'Meara, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Walpole Ontario

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For the first time in the province's history, a Native midget hockey team has taken the All Ontario cup.

A jubilant Walpole Island team carried their coach Stacey Kicknosway around the Walpole Community Centre after winning game four against the Zurich Thunder Team 5-3 in a best of seven series.

And that with a rookie coach and three valuable members playing with…

  • Clint Saulteaux, Windspeaker Contributor, Regina

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"I first enrolled in university while I was living in Manitoba a few years back. At that time it seemed to me that there was something missing as I did not seem to be able to fit into the educational system. It seemed that I had to forget my own culture in order to be successful."

Those were the words of the valedictorian at the 1993 Spring Convocation of the…

  • Windspeaker Staff, ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO

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Young Navahos are being struck by a deadly respiratory illness that has doctors baffled.

The disease has claimed 11 lives since January, most of them healthy young Navahos. The latest victim of the mysterious flu-like disease was a 13-year-old Navaho girl who collapsed curing a school graduation party May 28.

The girl was rushed to hospital and put on a ventilator…

  • Windspeaker Staff, ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO

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Young Navahos are being struck by a deadly respiratory illness that has doctors baffled.

The disease has claimed 11 lives since January, most of them healthy young Navahos. The latest victim of the mysterious flu-like disease was a 13-year-old Navaho girl who collapsed curing a school graduation party May 28.

The girl was rushed to hospital and put on a ventilator…

  • Windspeaker Staff, ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO

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Young Navahos are being struck by a deadly respiratory illness that has doctors baffled.

The disease has claimed 11 lives since January, most of them healthy young Navahos. The latest victim of the mysterious flu-like disease was a 13-year-old Navaho girl who collapsed curing a school graduation party May 28.

The girl was rushed to hospital and put on a ventilator…

  • Windspeaker Staff, ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO

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Young Navahos are being struck by a deadly respiratory illness that has doctors baffled.

The disease has claimed 11 lives since January, most of them healthy young Navahos. The latest victim of the mysterious flu-like disease was a 13-year-old Navaho girl who collapsed curing a school graduation party May 28.

The girl was rushed to hospital and put on a ventilator…

  • Doug Johnson, Windspeaker Contributor, Iqaluit N.W.T.

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Inuit of the Eastern Northwest Territories are just one step away from having their own government and territory, the first Aboriginal-controlled in Canada.

Following more than 20 years of negotiations between the Inuit and the Canadian federal government, the Nunavut Final Land Claim Agreement was signed May 25 in Baffin Island.

The final hurdle before the…

  • Doug Johnson, Windspeaker Contributor, Iqaluit N.W.T.

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Inuit of the Eastern Northwest Territories are just one step away from having their own government and territory, the first Aboriginal-controlled in Canada.

Following more than 20 years of negotiations between the Inuit and the Canadian federal government, the Nunavut Final Land Claim Agreement was signed May 25 in Baffin Island.

The final hurdle before the…

  • Doug Johnson, Windspeaker Contributor, Iqaluit N.W.T.

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Inuit of the Eastern Northwest Territories are just one step away from having their own government and territory, the first Aboriginal-controlled in Canada.

Following more than 20 years of negotiations between the Inuit and the Canadian federal government, the Nunavut Final Land Claim Agreement was signed May 25 in Baffin Island.

The final hurdle before the…

  • Doug Johnson, Windspeaker Contributor, Iqaluit N.W.T.

Page R1

Inuit of the Eastern Northwest Territories are just one step away from having their own government and territory, the first Aboriginal-controlled in Canada.

Following more than 20 years of negotiations between the Inuit and the Canadian federal government, the Nunavut Final Land Claim Agreement was signed May 25 in Baffin Island.

The final hurdle before the…

  • Kathryn Warden, The Star Phoenix, Saskatoon

The system was meant to protect Natives from being cheated, but it quickly changed into a way to ensure aboriginals didn't compete

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When George Munroe came back from the war in 1944, he had shrapnel in his back and a chip on his shoulder.

Having fought overseas for freedom and democracy, he found it grossly unfair that in his own country he couldn't buy a drink,…

  • Kathryn Warden, The Star Phoenix, Saskatoon

The system was meant to protect Natives from being cheated, but it quickly changed into a way to ensure aboriginals didn't compete

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When George Munroe came back from the war in 1944, he had shrapnel in his back and a chip on his shoulder.

Having fought overseas for freedom and democracy, he found it grossly unfair that in his own country he couldn't buy a drink,…

  • Kathryn Warden, The Star Phoenix, Saskatoon

The system was meant to protect Natives from being cheated, but it quickly changed into a way to ensure aboriginals didn't compete

Page 8

When George Munroe came back from the war in 1944, he had shrapnel in his back and a chip on his shoulder.

Having fought overseas for freedom and democracy, he found it grossly unfair that in his own country he couldn't buy a drink,…