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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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The verdict is in on Wabasca's new system of sentencing young offenders by elders' committee, rather than by the court. And according to the judge, police and others, it is successful on all counts.
Judge Clayton Spence, who every two weeks visits the Wabasca-Desmarais communities and the Bigstone Reserve, is pleased with the results.
Since January 1991, youths who…
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The verdict is in on Wabasca's new system of sentencing young offenders by elders' committee, rather than by the court. And according to the judge, police and others, it is successful on all counts.
Judge Clayton Spence, who every two weeks visits the Wabasca-Desmarais communities and the Bigstone Reserve, is pleased with the results.
Since January 1991, youths who…
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When the youth of Wabasca-Demarais break the law, they get charged and appear in court just like anywhere else.
And just like anywhere else, if they plead guilty, they get what's coming to them. But for the past 15 months, it hasn't been a judge who metes out the punishment.
Five leaders of the largely Native community northeast of Slave Lake have been handling that…
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When the youth of Wabasca-Demarais break the law, they get charged and appear in court just like anywhere else.
And just like anywhere else, if they plead guilty, they get what's coming to them. But for the past 15 months, it hasn't been a judge who metes out the punishment.
Five leaders of the largely Native community northeast of Slave Lake have been handling that…
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I have been studying our natural habitant for a long time. I have been able to understand more about life as a result.
Nature is my university. I can learn all I need to know from our wildlife and the environment that they live in.
I believe that much of our knowledge comes from observing nature. That is why we live in harmony with Mother Earth.
It is getting…
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I have been studying our natural habitant for a long time. I have been able to understand more about life as a result.
Nature is my university. I can learn all I need to know from our wildlife and the environment that they live in.
I believe that much of our knowledge comes from observing nature. That is why we live in harmony with Mother Earth.
It is getting…
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I Have Spoken
I wonder sometimes where all this progress and modern technologies is taking us.
It seems to me that people are always trying to find ways to escape the truth. They do not want to get at the root of the problem. They do not learn from the mistakes they make every day.
Maybe if they would look to the past, they could learn some valuable…
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I Have Spoken
I wonder sometimes where all this progress and modern technologies is taking us.
It seems to me that people are always trying to find ways to escape the truth. They do not want to get at the root of the problem. They do not learn from the mistakes they make every day.
Maybe if they would look to the past, they could learn some valuable…
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Tansi, ahnee and hello. It was three years ago on a spring morning exactly like this when the Old One gave me some very important words.
Being spiritual is living with a moist heart, he said. A moist heart. These days as creation gives a collective shrug and springs back into life again, I find myself drawn more and more into that level of being.
It's because of…
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Tansi, ahnee and hello. It was three years ago on a spring morning exactly like this when the Old One gave me some very important words.
Being spiritual is living with a moist heart, he said. A moist heart. These days as creation gives a collective shrug and springs back into life again, I find myself drawn more and more into that level of being.
It's because of…
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The Saskatchewan government has announced that an inquiry into the shooting death of a Native man in Prince Albert by a white supremacist will have a broad mandate.
This can only be seen as a positive step, even if it has taken more than a year for the investigation to get underway.
When Carney Nerland shot 48-year-old Leo Lachance through the door of his gun shop,…
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The Saskatchewan government has announced that an inquiry into the shooting death of a Native man in Prince Albert by a white supremacist will have a broad mandate.
This can only be seen as a positive step, even if it has taken more than a year for the investigation to get underway.
When Carney Nerland shot 48-year-old Leo Lachance through the door of his gun shop,…
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The constitution should include the recognition of First Nations as a distinct society, protect Native language and culture and give First Nations power over taxation, the Assembly of First Nations said.
In the final report from the assembly's First Nations Circle on the Constitution, released last week, the assembly said self-governing Native communities should have their…
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The constitution should include the recognition of First Nations as a distinct society, protect Native language and culture and give First Nations power over taxation, the Assembly of First Nations said.
In the final report from the assembly's First Nations Circle on the Constitution, released last week, the assembly said self-governing Native communities should have their…
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Efforts to have the inherent right to self-government entrenched in the constitution gained new momentum in two separate developments on the constitutional front.
At a first minister's meeting in Halifax, provincial premiers congratulated themselves on a "historic breakthrough" after unanimously agreeing to the principle of self-government.
Meanwhile, treaty chiefs…