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

Page 15

An Inuit-owned company in the Northwest Territories is facing economic extinction after Ottawas awarded a lucrative maintenance contract to a non-Native company.

Losing the $4 million Department of National Defense and Supply and Services contract to service the North Warning System may kill Avati Inc., said the fledgling company's president, Fred Hunt.

Avati was…

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

Page 15

An Inuit-owned company in the Northwest Territories is facing economic extinction after Ottawas awarded a lucrative maintenance contract to a non-Native company.

Losing the $4 million Department of National Defense and Supply and Services contract to service the North Warning System may kill Avati Inc., said the fledgling company's president, Fred Hunt.

Avati was…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Inuvik N.W.T.

Page 15

The Department of National Defense is proving to be a lucrative ally to a Native-owned company in the north.

The Inuvialuit Development Corporation recently won two separate contracts wiht the DND, one to fly helicopters and the other to guard fighter jets.

IDC won a $350,000 contrct to provide helicopter services to the DNS's North Warning System in the…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Inuvik N.W.T.

Page 15

The Department of National Defense is proving to be a lucrative ally to a Native-owned company in the north.

The Inuvialuit Development Corporation recently won two separate contracts wiht the DND, one to fly helicopters and the other to guard fighter jets.

IDC won a $350,000 contrct to provide helicopter services to the DNS's North Warning System in the…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Inuvik N.W.T.

Page 15

The Department of National Defense is proving to be a lucrative ally to a Native-owned company in the north.

The Inuvialuit Development Corporation recently won two separate contracts wiht the DND, one to fly helicopters and the other to guard fighter jets.

IDC won a $350,000 contrct to provide helicopter services to the DNS's North Warning System in the…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Inuvik N.W.T.

Page 15

The Department of National Defense is proving to be a lucrative ally to a Native-owned company in the north.

The Inuvialuit Development Corporation recently won two separate contracts wiht the DND, one to fly helicopters and the other to guard fighter jets.

IDC won a $350,000 contrct to provide helicopter services to the DNS's North Warning System in the…

  • Melissa Lerat, Windspeaker Contributor, Saskatoon

Page R8

"Good morning, SIFC students. CFNU, Canada's First Nations University radio station, is officially on the air."

With these words, the first Aboriginal-run university radio station in Canada it the airwaves.

CFNU has been in development since the summer of 1993. It involves 20 student volunteers from the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College at the University of…

  • Melissa Lerat, Windspeaker Contributor, Saskatoon

Page R8

"Good morning, SIFC students. CFNU, Canada's First Nations University radio station, is officially on the air."

With these words, the first Aboriginal-run university radio station in Canada it the airwaves.

CFNU has been in development since the summer of 1993. It involves 20 student volunteers from the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College at the University of…

  • Melissa Lerat, Windspeaker Contributor, Saskatoon

Page R8

"Good morning, SIFC students. CFNU, Canada's First Nations University radio station, is officially on the air."

With these words, the first Aboriginal-run university radio station in Canada it the airwaves.

CFNU has been in development since the summer of 1993. It involves 20 student volunteers from the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College at the University of…

  • Melissa Lerat, Windspeaker Contributor, Saskatoon

Page R8

"Good morning, SIFC students. CFNU, Canada's First Nations University radio station, is officially on the air."

With these words, the first Aboriginal-run university radio station in Canada it the airwaves.

CFNU has been in development since the summer of 1993. It involves 20 student volunteers from the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College at the University of…

  • Jim Goodstriker, Windspeaker Correspondent, Standoff Alberta

Page R5

The 1994 Indian National Final Rodeo will be held in Rapid City, South Dakota October 26-30.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been the home of INFR for 14 of its 18 years of existence. Salt Lake City, Utah, hosted the first finals in 1976, also the following year and 1979.

The INFR commission including Chairman Clem McSpadden of Oklahoma, Mel Samson of Washington,…

  • Jim Goodstriker, Windspeaker Correspondent, Standoff Alberta

Page R5

The 1994 Indian National Final Rodeo will be held in Rapid City, South Dakota October 26-30.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been the home of INFR for 14 of its 18 years of existence. Salt Lake City, Utah, hosted the first finals in 1976, also the following year and 1979.

The INFR commission including Chairman Clem McSpadden of Oklahoma, Mel Samson of Washington,…

  • Jim Goodstriker, Windspeaker Correspondent, Standoff Alberta

Page R5

The 1994 Indian National Final Rodeo will be held in Rapid City, South Dakota October 26-30.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been the home of INFR for 14 of its 18 years of existence. Salt Lake City, Utah, hosted the first finals in 1976, also the following year and 1979.

The INFR commission including Chairman Clem McSpadden of Oklahoma, Mel Samson of Washington,…

  • Jim Goodstriker, Windspeaker Correspondent, Standoff Alberta

Page R5

The 1994 Indian National Final Rodeo will be held in Rapid City, South Dakota October 26-30.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been the home of INFR for 14 of its 18 years of existence. Salt Lake City, Utah, hosted the first finals in 1976, also the following year and 1979.

The INFR commission including Chairman Clem McSpadden of Oklahoma, Mel Samson of Washington,…

  • Dina O'Meara, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Slave Lake Alberta

Page R3

Rain and unseasonably high temperatures ranging in the 9C range had organizers of the 1994 Arctic Winter Games worried the event would turn into a mud bath.

They shouldn't have because the weather turned, and at the March 6 opening ceremonies 1,200 circumpolar athletes and friends made a jubilant, dry entry to the Sawridge Plaza parking lot in bracing -15C weather.