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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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Life for the Mushuau Innu in Davis Inlet has hit rock bottom, the community's chief said.
Residents of the impoverished village 330 kilometres north of Goose Bay are so tired of dealing with unwelcome justice officials and insincere politicians that they are considering an armed revolt, Katie Rich said.
"There is a lot of tension here in the community. If anybody,…
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Life for the Mushuau Innu in Davis Inlet has hit rock bottom, the community's chief said.
Residents of the impoverished village 330 kilometres north of Goose Bay are so tired of dealing with unwelcome justice officials and insincere politicians that they are considering an armed revolt, Katie Rich said.
"There is a lot of tension here in the community. If anybody,…
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Life for the Mushuau Innu in Davis Inlet has hit rock bottom, the community's chief said.
Residents of the impoverished village 330 kilometres north of Goose Bay are so tired of dealing with unwelcome justice officials and insincere politicians that they are considering an armed revolt, Katie Rich said.
"There is a lot of tension here in the community. If anybody,…
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Life for the Mushuau Innu in Davis Inlet has hit rock bottom, the community's chief said.
Residents of the impoverished village 330 kilometres north of Goose Bay are so tired of dealing with unwelcome justice officials and insincere politicians that they are considering an armed revolt, Katie Rich said.
"There is a lot of tension here in the community. If anybody,…
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The botched 1990 police raid on the Mohawk's barricade at Oka came as no surprise to the Natives, said the first Indian to testify at a coroner's inquest into the death of a Quebec police officer.
Eba Beauvais, who had been on the barricades for more than three weeks before the July 11 raid, said the expected Quebec provincial police to rush them that morning.
The…
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The botched 1990 police raid on the Mohawk's barricade at Oka came as no surprise to the Natives, said the first Indian to testify at a coroner's inquest into the death of a Quebec police officer.
Eba Beauvais, who had been on the barricades for more than three weeks before the July 11 raid, said the expected Quebec provincial police to rush them that morning.
The…
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The botched 1990 police raid on the Mohawk's barricade at Oka came as no surprise to the Natives, said the first Indian to testify at a coroner's inquest into the death of a Quebec police officer.
Eba Beauvais, who had been on the barricades for more than three weeks before the July 11 raid, said the expected Quebec provincial police to rush them that morning.
The…
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The botched 1990 police raid on the Mohawk's barricade at Oka came as no surprise to the Natives, said the first Indian to testify at a coroner's inquest into the death of a Quebec police officer.
Eba Beauvais, who had been on the barricades for more than three weeks before the July 11 raid, said the expected Quebec provincial police to rush them that morning.
The…
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A recessed economy and stiffer competition for limited space in university have resulted in an increase in racial discrimination against Native students.
Native student association officials are reporting a jump in the number of racist remarks and acts against Indians by non-Aboriginal students and professors.
Non-Aboriginals are usually tolerant of Natives…
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A recessed economy and stiffer competition for limited space in university have resulted in an increase in racial discrimination against Native students.
Native student association officials are reporting a jump in the number of racist remarks and acts against Indians by non-Aboriginal students and professors.
Non-Aboriginals are usually tolerant of Natives…
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A recessed economy and stiffer competition for limited space in university have resulted in an increase in racial discrimination against Native students.
Native student association officials are reporting a jump in the number of racist remarks and acts against Indians by non-Aboriginal students and professors.
Non-Aboriginals are usually tolerant of Natives…
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A recessed economy and stiffer competition for limited space in university have resulted in an increase in racial discrimination against Native students.
Native student association officials are reporting a jump in the number of racist remarks and acts against Indians by non-Aboriginal students and professors.
Non-Aboriginals are usually tolerant of Natives…
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Native leaders across Canada cautiously applauded Ottawa's decision to accelerate Native self-government talks with Aboriginals and the provinces in the next few months.
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs welcomed the news with guarded optimism. The first task facing every Native authority will be to define the term self-government, said union head Saul Terry.
"To us…
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Loneliness and isolation usually accompanied a diagnosis of tuberculosis for Indian and Inuit people, who were forced to spend their recovery times in sanatoriums hundreds of miles from home.
Before effective antibiotic treatments came into use in the 1960s, that stay could last years, and Indigenous peoples were usually surrounded by a strange environment and people who…
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Loneliness and isolation usually accompanied a diagnosis of tuberculosis for Indian and Inuit people, who were forced to spend their recovery times in sanatoriums hundreds of miles from home.
Before effective antibiotic treatments came into use in the 1960s, that stay could last years, and Indigenous peoples were usually surrounded by a strange environment and people who…