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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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Tansi, ahnee and hello. The city of moonlight. Inside my head is a man with a horn. Jazz. I imagine him sitting alone on a window ledge somewhere blowing gigantic holes of incandescent blue in the night sky. The luminescence around me throws silhouettes of house and tree and schoolyard into patterns and shapes at once foreign
and familiar. I'm strolling the same city…
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Pikiskwe
Almost 50 years ago have passed since Canada was last involved in a major war. The young people who fought in those wars are now elders or have since passed on. Of the ones who remain, they are reluctant to talk about their wartime experiences, but one need only look into their eyes every Nov. 11 to recognize its effect.
For the young people of today, those…
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Pikiskwe
Almost 50 years ago have passed since Canada was last involved in a major war. The young people who fought in those wars are now elders or have since passed on. Of the ones who remain, they are reluctant to talk about their wartime experiences, but one need only look into their eyes every Nov. 11 to recognize its effect.
For the young people of today, those…
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Pikiskwe
Almost 50 years ago have passed since Canada was last involved in a major war. The young people who fought in those wars are now elders or have since passed on. Of the ones who remain, they are reluctant to talk about their wartime experiences, but one need only look into their eyes every Nov. 11 to recognize its effect.
For the young people of today, those…
Page 4
Pikiskwe
Almost 50 years ago have passed since Canada was last involved in a major war. The young people who fought in those wars are now elders or have since passed on. Of the ones who remain, they are reluctant to talk about their wartime experiences, but one need only look into their eyes every Nov. 11 to recognize its effect.
For the young people of today, those…
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Even when it fails, the constitutional process in Canada manages to educate the general public about the hopes and desires of first nations.
When Red Sucker MLA Elijah Harper uttered his quiet No in the Manitoba legislature and sent the Meech Lake accord into a tailspin, he sent a strong message to
the Canadian public.
That message was: First nations aren't…
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The defeat of the Charlottetown accord is not the end of self-government, it
just means the process will be delayed, said Roland Crowe, chief of the Federation
of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.
His organization recommended that people both participate in the process and
vote yes.
"I found it difficult that our own people abstained or voted no,"…
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The defeat of the Charlottetown accord met with an angry reaction from B.C. Native leaders associated with the Assembly of First Nations.
But as with other provinces, the demise of the package that would have entrenched self-government in the Canadian constitution was greeted with relief and calls for continued efforts to press for Native rights.
"What they've…
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The Charlottetown accord was soundly defeated on Alberta's reserves where light voter turnouts added up to a simple rejection. But the final results held few surprises. Treaty chiefs across the province had long since abandoned the constitutional process, fearing it undermined the "nation-to-nation" relationship with Canada.
"Our people were not in favor of the accord…
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Ovide Mercredi looked mad. Shifting uncomfortably on his chair he stared into the live television camera and gave his stark assessment of the NO tidal wave that swept the Charlottetown accord away.
"We blew it," the embittered Assembly of First Nations chief told millions of Canadians tuned into live coverage of the referendum vote.
"We had a chance here to do…
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The RCMP officer accused of lying under oath at a special inquiry into the Wilson Nepoose murder conviction has been acquitted.
Justice Allan Wachowich rejected defence claims that Red Deer RCMP sergeant Don Zazaluk was suffering a temporary mental disturbance brought on by the stress of the Nepoose investigation.
But Wachowich ruled that since the officer did not…
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The RCMP officer accused of lying under oath at a special inquiry into the Wilson Nepoose murder conviction has been acquitted.
Justice Allan Wachowich rejected defence claims that Red Deer RCMP sergeant Don Zazaluk was suffering a temporary mental disturbance brought on by the stress of the Nepoose investigation.
But Wachowich ruled that since the officer did not…
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The RCMP officer accused of lying under oath at a special inquiry into the Wilson Nepoose murder conviction has been acquitted.
Justice Allan Wachowich rejected defence claims that Red Deer RCMP sergeant Don Zazaluk was suffering a temporary mental disturbance brought on by the stress of the Nepoose investigation.
But Wachowich ruled that since the officer did not…
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The RCMP officer accused of lying under oath at a special inquiry into the Wilson Nepoose murder conviction has been acquitted.
Justice Allan Wachowich rejected defence claims that Red Deer RCMP sergeant Don Zazaluk was suffering a temporary mental disturbance brought on by the stress of the Nepoose investigation.
But Wachowich ruled that since the officer did not…
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Self-government and independence are still hot topics in Native communities, despite the defeat of the referendum. But on southern Alberta's Blood reserve, the terms may be taken on a new meaning.
About 600 members of the tribe have recently signed petitions asking for independence from the Blood band itself, with the intention of setting up their own Mohk-e-saun (Red Clay…