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Windspeaker Publication

Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.

  • October 20, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Ottawa

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The Canadian government needs to do more to improve its record of human rights for aboriginal peoples and rid its justice system of racism, according to Amnesty International.

In a report released recently to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas, the human rights organization examined oppression, torture and killings of Native people throughout the…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Ottawa

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The Canadian government needs to do more to improve its record of human rights for aboriginal peoples and rid its justice system of racism, according to Amnesty International.

In a report released recently to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas, the human rights organization examined oppression, torture and killings of Native people throughout the…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Ottawa

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The Canadian government needs to do more to improve its record of human rights for aboriginal peoples and rid its justice system of racism, according to Amnesty International.

In a report released recently to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas, the human rights organization examined oppression, torture and killings of Native people throughout the…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Ottawa

Page 2

The Canadian government needs to do more to improve its record of human rights for aboriginal peoples and rid its justice system of racism, according to Amnesty International.

In a report released recently to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas, the human rights organization examined oppression, torture and killings of Native people throughout the…

  • October 20, 2001
  • John Holman, Windspeaker Contributor, YELLOWKNIFE

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Equality and self-government for Native people are reasons to vote for the constitutional accord in the Oct. 26 referendum, national Native leaders told the Northwest Territories' legislature.

Representatives from the Metis National Council, the Native Council of Canada, the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and the Assembly of First Nations recently urged the members of the…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, GITWANGAK B.C.

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A blockade of a CN rail line in northwestern B.C. has come down and Gitksan band members are working with the provincial government to settle the dispute.

Gitksan chiefs and spokesman Don Ryan met with the B.C. ministers of forestry and aboriginal affairs last week to address the problems caused by the transfer of assets from Westar Timber to Repap, a Montreal firm.

  • October 20, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, GITWANGAK B.C.

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A blockade of a CN rail line in northwestern B.C. has come down and Gitksan band members are working with the provincial government to settle the dispute.

Gitksan chiefs and spokesman Don Ryan met with the B.C. ministers of forestry and aboriginal affairs last week to address the problems caused by the transfer of assets from Westar Timber to Repap, a Montreal firm.

  • October 20, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, GITWANGAK B.C.

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A blockade of a CN rail line in northwestern B.C. has come down and Gitksan band members are working with the provincial government to settle the dispute.

Gitksan chiefs and spokesman Don Ryan met with the B.C. ministers of forestry and aboriginal affairs last week to address the problems caused by the transfer of assets from Westar Timber to Repap, a Montreal firm.

  • October 20, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, GITWANGAK B.C.

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A blockade of a CN rail line in northwestern B.C. has come down and Gitksan band members are working with the provincial government to settle the dispute.

Gitksan chiefs and spokesman Don Ryan met with the B.C. ministers of forestry and aboriginal affairs last week to address the problems caused by the transfer of assets from Westar Timber to Repap, a Montreal firm.

  • October 20, 2001
  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Contributor, VICTORIA

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Manitoba Native Angela Chalmers started running competitively at the age of eight and has never looked back.

Twenty years later, during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she became part of sports history as the third fastest woman on the planet in the 3,000 metre run.

It was a way of proving to Native children throughout Canada that dreams really do…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Contributor, VICTORIA

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Manitoba Native Angela Chalmers started running competitively at the age of eight and has never looked back.

Twenty years later, during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she became part of sports history as the third fastest woman on the planet in the 3,000 metre run.

It was a way of proving to Native children throughout Canada that dreams really do…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Contributor, VICTORIA

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Manitoba Native Angela Chalmers started running competitively at the age of eight and has never looked back.

Twenty years later, during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she became part of sports history as the third fastest woman on the planet in the 3,000 metre run.

It was a way of proving to Native children throughout Canada that dreams really do…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Contributor, VICTORIA

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Manitoba Native Angela Chalmers started running competitively at the age of eight and has never looked back.

Twenty years later, during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she became part of sports history as the third fastest woman on the planet in the 3,000 metre run.

It was a way of proving to Native children throughout Canada that dreams really do…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Connie Sampson, Windspeaker Contributor, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

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The problems for Native people are much the same on both sides of the Canadian-United States border, according to Patrick Spotted Wolf, a Cheyenne-Arapahoe dancer.

Spotted Wolf, who is semi-retired, travels the powwow circuit with his wife Sandra, daughter and grandchildren each year. This year they went from their Oklahoma home throughout the northwestern states in B.C…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Connie Sampson, Windspeaker Contributor, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

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The problems for Native people are much the same on both sides of the Canadian-United States border, according to Patrick Spotted Wolf, a Cheyenne-Arapahoe dancer.

Spotted Wolf, who is semi-retired, travels the powwow circuit with his wife Sandra, daughter and grandchildren each year. This year they went from their Oklahoma home throughout the northwestern states in B.C…