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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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A major rock slide on July 2 has closed one of the most sacred areas in North America.
Chief Mountain, an outstanding landmark in north central Montana and southwestern Alberta, and the primary spiritual place for the Blackfoot peoples and other Plains Indians, have been declared unsafe. Since the slide, trails in the area have been closed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs…
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A major rock slide on July 2 has closed one of the most sacred areas in North America.
Chief Mountain, an outstanding landmark in north central Montana and southwestern Alberta, and the primary spiritual place for the Blackfoot peoples and other Plains Indians, have been declared unsafe. Since the slide, trails in the area have been closed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs…
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A major rock slide on July 2 has closed one of the most sacred areas in North America.
Chief Mountain, an outstanding landmark in north central Montana and southwestern Alberta, and the primary spiritual place for the Blackfoot peoples and other Plains Indians, have been declared unsafe. Since the slide, trails in the area have been closed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs…
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A major rock slide on July 2 has closed one of the most sacred areas in North America.
Chief Mountain, an outstanding landmark in north central Montana and southwestern Alberta, and the primary spiritual place for the Blackfoot peoples and other Plains Indians, have been declared unsafe. Since the slide, trails in the area have been closed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs…
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An alcohol-fuelled family fight in a remote northern Manitoba reserve ended in the stabbing death of the community's young chief.
Noah David Redhead, 28, died in a Thompson, Man. hospital hours after being fatally wounded on the 800-member Shamattawa reserve, about 750 kilometres north of Winnipeg. His wife, 23-year-old Jessie Redhead, has been charged with second…
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An alcohol-fuelled family fight in a remote northern Manitoba reserve ended in the stabbing death of the community's young chief.
Noah David Redhead, 28, died in a Thompson, Man. hospital hours after being fatally wounded on the 800-member Shamattawa reserve, about 750 kilometres north of Winnipeg. His wife, 23-year-old Jessie Redhead, has been charged with second…
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An alcohol-fuelled family fight in a remote northern Manitoba reserve ended in the stabbing death of the community's young chief.
Noah David Redhead, 28, died in a Thompson, Man. hospital hours after being fatally wounded on the 800-member Shamattawa reserve, about 750 kilometres north of Winnipeg. His wife, 23-year-old Jessie Redhead, has been charged with second…
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An alcohol-fuelled family fight in a remote northern Manitoba reserve ended in the stabbing death of the community's young chief.
Noah David Redhead, 28, died in a Thompson, Man. hospital hours after being fatally wounded on the 800-member Shamattawa reserve, about 750 kilometres north of Winnipeg. His wife, 23-year-old Jessie Redhead, has been charged with second…
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Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon presented a new offer on the 50-year-old Lubicon land settlement dispute to chief Bernard Ominayak.
Neither side was releasing details of the proposal after a one-hour meeting in Edmonton. But Siddon suggested the new proposal includes more money than the government's $45-million, take-it-or-leave-it offer that has been a long-standing…
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Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon presented a new offer on the 50-year-old Lubicon land settlement dispute to chief Bernard Ominayak.
Neither side was releasing details of the proposal after a one-hour meeting in Edmonton. But Siddon suggested the new proposal includes more money than the government's $45-million, take-it-or-leave-it offer that has been a long-standing…
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Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon presented a new offer on the 50-year-old Lubicon land settlement dispute to chief Bernard Ominayak.
Neither side was releasing details of the proposal after a one-hour meeting in Edmonton. But Siddon suggested the new proposal includes more money than the government's $45-million, take-it-or-leave-it offer that has been a long-standing…
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Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon presented a new offer on the 50-year-old Lubicon land settlement dispute to chief Bernard Ominayak.
Neither side was releasing details of the proposal after a one-hour meeting in Edmonton. But Siddon suggested the new proposal includes more money than the government's $45-million, take-it-or-leave-it offer that has been a long-standing…
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Demonstrators attempting to pressure the non-status woman elected chief of their northern Alberta reserve vowed to continue their protest despite a court order keeping them out of the band hall.
"Everything has been affected by this," said one member of the protest camp at Sturgeon Lake, about 350 km northwest of Edmonton. "Don't make this sound like a petty argument...…
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Demonstrators attempting to pressure the non-status woman elected chief of their northern Alberta reserve vowed to continue their protest despite a court order keeping them out of the band hall.
"Everything has been affected by this," said one member of the protest camp at Sturgeon Lake, about 350 km northwest of Edmonton. "Don't make this sound like a petty argument...…
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Demonstrators attempting to pressure the non-status woman elected chief of their northern Alberta reserve vowed to continue their protest despite a court order keeping them out of the band hall.
"Everything has been affected by this," said one member of the protest camp at Sturgeon Lake, about 350 km northwest of Edmonton. "Don't make this sound like a petty argument...…