Welcome to AMMSA.COM, the news archive website for our family of Indigenous news publications.
Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
Page 3
The inquiry into the shooting death of Native trapper Leo LaChance will continue despite an RCMP attempt to stop the hearings.
LaChance, 48, was shot to death by white supremacist Carney Nerland, at Nerland's gun and pawn shop in Prince Alberta, Saskatchewan on January 28, 1991. Nerland pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is serving a four-year prison term.
RCMP…
Page 3
Dozens of Native people are continuing to blockade a road into a northern Saskatchewan logging area in a protest over forestry methods and community control
of timber harvests.
Residents of three communities were close to reaching a deal with Meadow Lake Tribal Council, shareholders in the company at the centre of the dispute. But talks broke down at the last…
Page 3
Dozens of Native people are continuing to blockade a road into a northern Saskatchewan logging area in a protest over forestry methods and community control
of timber harvests.
Residents of three communities were close to reaching a deal with Meadow Lake Tribal Council, shareholders in the company at the centre of the dispute. But talks broke down at the last…
Page 3
Dozens of Native people are continuing to blockade a road into a northern Saskatchewan logging area in a protest over forestry methods and community control
of timber harvests.
Residents of three communities were close to reaching a deal with Meadow Lake Tribal Council, shareholders in the company at the centre of the dispute. But talks broke down at the last…
Page 3
Dozens of Native people are continuing to blockade a road into a northern Saskatchewan logging area in a protest over forestry methods and community control
of timber harvests.
Residents of three communities were close to reaching a deal with Meadow Lake Tribal Council, shareholders in the company at the centre of the dispute. But talks broke down at the last…
Page 3
An inquest into the 1988 suicide of a 13-year-old boy from Sandy Bay, Man.,
has become a wide-ranging inquiry into a Native-run social services agency.
It began as a standard medical examiner's inquest into the death of a youth, who hanged himself while living in a foster home. But when examiners found the boy's files missing from the offices of the Dakota-Ojibway…
Page 3
An inquest into the 1988 suicide of a 13-year-old boy from Sandy Bay, Man.,
has become a wide-ranging inquiry into a Native-run social services agency.
It began as a standard medical examiner's inquest into the death of a youth, who hanged himself while living in a foster home. But when examiners found the boy's files missing from the offices of the Dakota-Ojibway…
Page 3
An inquest into the 1988 suicide of a 13-year-old boy from Sandy Bay, Man.,
has become a wide-ranging inquiry into a Native-run social services agency.
It began as a standard medical examiner's inquest into the death of a youth, who hanged himself while living in a foster home. But when examiners found the boy's files missing from the offices of the Dakota-Ojibway…
Page 3
An inquest into the 1988 suicide of a 13-year-old boy from Sandy Bay, Man.,
has become a wide-ranging inquiry into a Native-run social services agency.
It began as a standard medical examiner's inquest into the death of a youth, who hanged himself while living in a foster home. But when examiners found the boy's files missing from the offices of the Dakota-Ojibway…
Page 2
Little or no progress was made on settling the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim following Indian Affairs Minister Tom Saddon's recent visit to Little Buffalo.
And according to Lubicon spokesman, Fred Lennarson, the talks are still bogged down over when Ottawa will respond to the Lubicon proposals for ending the dispute.
"I don't see how we can settle if they (the…
Page 2
Little or no progress was made on settling the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim following Indian Affairs Minister Tom Saddon's recent visit to Little Buffalo.
And according to Lubicon spokesman, Fred Lennarson, the talks are still bogged down over when Ottawa will respond to the Lubicon proposals for ending the dispute.
"I don't see how we can settle if they (the…
Page 2
Little or no progress was made on settling the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim following Indian Affairs Minister Tom Saddon's recent visit to Little Buffalo.
And according to Lubicon spokesman, Fred Lennarson, the talks are still bogged down over when Ottawa will respond to the Lubicon proposals for ending the dispute.
"I don't see how we can settle if they (the…
Page 2
Little or no progress was made on settling the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim following Indian Affairs Minister Tom Saddon's recent visit to Little Buffalo.
And according to Lubicon spokesman, Fred Lennarson, the talks are still bogged down over when Ottawa will respond to the Lubicon proposals for ending the dispute.
"I don't see how we can settle if they (the…
Page 2
Wildlife conservation measures should take precedence over hunting rights guaranteed in the treaties, a spokesman for the Alberta Fish and Game Association
said recently.
"The preservation of wildlife should take precedence over treaty rights," said
Andy von Busse, a representative of the lobby group, which claims more than 15,000 members.
"In today…
Page 2
Wildlife conservation measures should take precedence over hunting rights guaranteed in the treaties, a spokesman for the Alberta Fish and Game Association
said recently.
"The preservation of wildlife should take precedence over treaty rights," said
Andy von Busse, a representative of the lobby group, which claims more than 15,000 members.
"In today…