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

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The Department of Indian Affairs has a new chief.

Pauline Browes, MP for Scarborough Centre, has replaced Tom Siddon as Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Browes, a former school teacher, was appointed June 25 during Prime Minister Kim Campbell's first Cabinet shuffle.

Siddon, who served as head of the department for more than 40 months,…

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

Page 2

The Department of Indian Affairs has a new chief.

Pauline Browes, MP for Scarborough Centre, has replaced Tom Siddon as Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Browes, a former school teacher, was appointed June 25 during Prime Minister Kim Campbell's first Cabinet shuffle.

Siddon, who served as head of the department for more than 40 months,…

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

Page 2

The Department of Indian Affairs has a new chief.

Pauline Browes, MP for Scarborough Centre, has replaced Tom Siddon as Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Browes, a former school teacher, was appointed June 25 during Prime Minister Kim Campbell's first Cabinet shuffle.

Siddon, who served as head of the department for more than 40 months,…

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

Page 2

The Department of Indian Affairs has a new chief.

Pauline Browes, MP for Scarborough Centre, has replaced Tom Siddon as Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Browes, a former school teacher, was appointed June 25 during Prime Minister Kim Campbell's first Cabinet shuffle.

Siddon, who served as head of the department for more than 40 months,…

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

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The conflict over Aboriginal commercial fisheries in British Columbia is heating up again with the approach of the summer salmon fishing season.

The B.C. Fishermens' Survival Coalition accused the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in mid-June allowing Natives from the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority to over-fish the river.

"Barely a few weeks into the fishing…

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

Page 2

The conflict over Aboriginal commercial fisheries in British Columbia is heating up again with the approach of the summer salmon fishing season.

The B.C. Fishermens' Survival Coalition accused the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in mid-June allowing Natives from the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority to over-fish the river.

"Barely a few weeks into the fishing…

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

Page 2

The conflict over Aboriginal commercial fisheries in British Columbia is heating up again with the approach of the summer salmon fishing season.

The B.C. Fishermens' Survival Coalition accused the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in mid-June allowing Natives from the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority to over-fish the river.

"Barely a few weeks into the fishing…

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

Page 2

The conflict over Aboriginal commercial fisheries in British Columbia is heating up again with the approach of the summer salmon fishing season.

The B.C. Fishermens' Survival Coalition accused the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in mid-June allowing Natives from the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority to over-fish the river.

"Barely a few weeks into the fishing…

  • Marlena Dolan, Windspeaker Contributor, Calgary

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Expressions of horror and shock crossed the face of Siksika Elder Matthew Melting Tallow when he examined the Indian artifacts in the collection of the Glenbow Museum.

Melting Tallow was physically taken aback when a drawer containing his auntie's sacred headdress was opened. He was visibly distraught and commented, "How did they get this?" Melting Tallow bowed his head…

  • Marlena Dolan, Windspeaker Contributor, Calgary

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Expressions of horror and shock crossed the face of Siksika Elder Matthew Melting Tallow when he examined the Indian artifacts in the collection of the Glenbow Museum.

Melting Tallow was physically taken aback when a drawer containing his auntie's sacred headdress was opened. He was visibly distraught and commented, "How did they get this?" Melting Tallow bowed his head…

  • Marlena Dolan, Windspeaker Contributor, Calgary

Page 2

Expressions of horror and shock crossed the face of Siksika Elder Matthew Melting Tallow when he examined the Indian artifacts in the collection of the Glenbow Museum.

Melting Tallow was physically taken aback when a drawer containing his auntie's sacred headdress was opened. He was visibly distraught and commented, "How did they get this?" Melting Tallow bowed his head…

  • Marlena Dolan, Windspeaker Contributor, Calgary

Page 2

Expressions of horror and shock crossed the face of Siksika Elder Matthew Melting Tallow when he examined the Indian artifacts in the collection of the Glenbow Museum.

Melting Tallow was physically taken aback when a drawer containing his auntie's sacred headdress was opened. He was visibly distraught and commented, "How did they get this?" Melting Tallow bowed his head…

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

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Canadian Natives have scored a victory against Ottawa during the United Nations' World Conference on Human Rights.

Austria announced June 23 that it would support Natives in their fight to have the term 'Indigenous peoples' incorporated in the Vienna Declaration, the human rights document expected from the conference.

Canada successfully lobbied to have the term "…

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

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Canadian Natives have scored a victory against Ottawa during the United Nations' World Conference on Human Rights.

Austria announced June 23 that it would support Natives in their fight to have the term 'Indigenous peoples' incorporated in the Vienna Declaration, the human rights document expected from the conference.

Canada successfully lobbied to have the term "…

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

Page 1

Canadian Natives have scored a victory against Ottawa during the United Nations' World Conference on Human Rights.

Austria announced June 23 that it would support Natives in their fight to have the term 'Indigenous peoples' incorporated in the Vienna Declaration, the human rights document expected from the conference.

Canada successfully lobbied to have the term "…