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  • Windspeaker Staff

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Native leaders across Canada are heralding the Liberal party's federal election victory as a possible Second Coming for Aboriginals in Canada.

At the very least, they see it as a vast improvement over the Progressive Conservatives. And in that, they're probably right. The Conservatives had no understanding of Native issues or the needs of the First Nations in general.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Native leaders across Canada are heralding the Liberal party's federal election victory as a possible Second Coming for Aboriginals in Canada.

At the very least, they see it as a vast improvement over the Progressive Conservatives. And in that, they're probably right. The Conservatives had no understanding of Native issues or the needs of the First Nations in general.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Native leaders across Canada are heralding the Liberal party's federal election victory as a possible Second Coming for Aboriginals in Canada.

At the very least, they see it as a vast improvement over the Progressive Conservatives. And in that, they're probably right. The Conservatives had no understanding of Native issues or the needs of the First Nations in general.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Native leaders across Canada are heralding the Liberal party's federal election victory as a possible Second Coming for Aboriginals in Canada.

At the very least, they see it as a vast improvement over the Progressive Conservatives. And in that, they're probably right. The Conservatives had no understanding of Native issues or the needs of the First Nations in general.…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Goose Bay NFLD.

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It may be a long time before the trial of the group of Native protesters in Labrador gets underway.

Language barriers, hunting seasons and civil disobedience stand to make the trial of 42 Innu charged with mischief drag on for some time, Innu Nation spokesman Daniel Ashini said.

The Innu from Sheshatsui appeared in court Oct. 26 to enter their plea on charges of…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Goose Bay NFLD.

Page 3

It may be a long time before the trial of the group of Native protesters in Labrador gets underway.

Language barriers, hunting seasons and civil disobedience stand to make the trial of 42 Innu charged with mischief drag on for some time, Innu Nation spokesman Daniel Ashini said.

The Innu from Sheshatsui appeared in court Oct. 26 to enter their plea on charges of…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Goose Bay NFLD.

Page 3

It may be a long time before the trial of the group of Native protesters in Labrador gets underway.

Language barriers, hunting seasons and civil disobedience stand to make the trial of 42 Innu charged with mischief drag on for some time, Innu Nation spokesman Daniel Ashini said.

The Innu from Sheshatsui appeared in court Oct. 26 to enter their plea on charges of…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Goose Bay NFLD.

Page 3

It may be a long time before the trial of the group of Native protesters in Labrador gets underway.

Language barriers, hunting seasons and civil disobedience stand to make the trial of 42 Innu charged with mischief drag on for some time, Innu Nation spokesman Daniel Ashini said.

The Innu from Sheshatsui appeared in court Oct. 26 to enter their plea on charges of…

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

Protests against Aboriginal fisheries unfounded

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Ottawa's Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy has not decimated West Coast salmon stocks as some non-Native commercial fishermen had predicted, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans reported.

This year's run of cheam and sockeye salmon were the largest since 1913, when a rock slide in the Fraser valley almost wiped out…

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

Protests against Aboriginal fisheries unfounded

Page 3

Ottawa's Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy has not decimated West Coast salmon stocks as some non-Native commercial fishermen had predicted, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans reported.

This year's run of cheam and sockeye salmon were the largest since 1913, when a rock slide in the Fraser valley almost wiped out…

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

Protests against Aboriginal fisheries unfounded

Page 3

Ottawa's Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy has not decimated West Coast salmon stocks as some non-Native commercial fishermen had predicted, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans reported.

This year's run of cheam and sockeye salmon were the largest since 1913, when a rock slide in the Fraser valley almost wiped out…

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

Protests against Aboriginal fisheries unfounded

Page 3

Ottawa's Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy has not decimated West Coast salmon stocks as some non-Native commercial fishermen had predicted, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans reported.

This year's run of cheam and sockeye salmon were the largest since 1913, when a rock slide in the Fraser valley almost wiped out…

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

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Natives have not been well served by the non-Native justice system, the long-awaited Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice inquiry concluded.

The "reactive" attitudes of local RCMP towards Natives, combined with the ignorance of the Canadian justice system of Aboriginal cultures, created a culture clash where the Natives lost out, head commissioner and Judge Anthony Sarich said.…

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

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Natives have not been well served by the non-Native justice system, the long-awaited Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice inquiry concluded.

The "reactive" attitudes of local RCMP towards Natives, combined with the ignorance of the Canadian justice system of Aboriginal cultures, created a culture clash where the Natives lost out, head commissioner and Judge Anthony Sarich said.…

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

Page 3

Natives have not been well served by the non-Native justice system, the long-awaited Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice inquiry concluded.

The "reactive" attitudes of local RCMP towards Natives, combined with the ignorance of the Canadian justice system of Aboriginal cultures, created a culture clash where the Natives lost out, head commissioner and Judge Anthony Sarich said.…