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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.

  • September 28, 2001
  • Lolly Kaiser, Windspeaker Contributor

Page 3

Native leaders across the country are accusing the federal government

of orchestrating future self-government policies to suit their own

agenda.

"(The government isn't) getting the appropriate response from the fact

finder forums," says Saul Terry, president of the Union of B.C. Indian

Chiefs.

"... so (Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin)…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Lolly Kaiser, Windspeaker Contributor

Page 3

Native leaders across the country are accusing the federal government

of orchestrating future self-government policies to suit their own

agenda.

"(The government isn't) getting the appropriate response from the fact

finder forums," says Saul Terry, president of the Union of B.C. Indian

Chiefs.

"... so (Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin)…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Ottawa

Page 3

The federal government's decision to almost triple the number of

low-level training flights over Labrador has outraged the Innu who live

and hunt in the area.

The announcement is just another "sad chapter" in the history of

relations between the Innu and the Europeans, said Daniel Ashini, Innu

nation spokesman.

Defence Minister David…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Ottawa

Page 3

The federal government's decision to almost triple the number of

low-level training flights over Labrador has outraged the Innu who live

and hunt in the area.

The announcement is just another "sad chapter" in the history of

relations between the Innu and the Europeans, said Daniel Ashini, Innu

nation spokesman.

Defence Minister David…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Ottawa

Page 3

The federal government's decision to almost triple the number of

low-level training flights over Labrador has outraged the Innu who live

and hunt in the area.

The announcement is just another "sad chapter" in the history of

relations between the Innu and the Europeans, said Daniel Ashini, Innu

nation spokesman.

Defence Minister David…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Susan Lazaruk, Windspeaker Correspondent, Port Alberni B.C.

Page 3

In a sexual abuse case the judge called the worst he'd seen in his 45

years on the bench, 77 year-old Arthur Plint was jailed for 11 years for

assaulting boys at a former residential school on Vancouver Island.

The trial brought to light harrowing tales of abuse:

How Plint, a supervisor from 1947-1968 at the federal Alberni Indian

Residential…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Susan Lazaruk, Windspeaker Correspondent, Port Alberni B.C.

Page 3

In a sexual abuse case the judge called the worst he'd seen in his 45

years on the bench, 77 year-old Arthur Plint was jailed for 11 years for

assaulting boys at a former residential school on Vancouver Island.

The trial brought to light harrowing tales of abuse:

How Plint, a supervisor from 1947-1968 at the federal Alberni Indian

Residential…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Susan Lazaruk, Windspeaker Correspondent, Port Alberni B.C.

Page 3

In a sexual abuse case the judge called the worst he'd seen in his 45

years on the bench, 77 year-old Arthur Plint was jailed for 11 years for

assaulting boys at a former residential school on Vancouver Island.

The trial brought to light harrowing tales of abuse:

How Plint, a supervisor from 1947-1968 at the federal Alberni Indian

Residential…

  • September 28, 2001
  • R John Hayes, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Winnipeg

Page 2

On the day that Gary Filmon's third-term Progressive Conservative

government opened the legislature in Manitoba, Northern and Native

Affairs Minister Darren Praznick predicted that the next five years

would bring few changes. He denied responsibility for many issues

involving Native people, saying they are a federal matter.

"I think it's…

  • September 28, 2001
  • R John Hayes, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Winnipeg

Page 2

On the day that Gary Filmon's third-term Progressive Conservative

government opened the legislature in Manitoba, Northern and Native

Affairs Minister Darren Praznick predicted that the next five years

would bring few changes. He denied responsibility for many issues

involving Native people, saying they are a federal matter.

"I think it's…

  • September 28, 2001
  • R John Hayes, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Winnipeg

Page 2

On the day that Gary Filmon's third-term Progressive Conservative

government opened the legislature in Manitoba, Northern and Native

Affairs Minister Darren Praznick predicted that the next five years

would bring few changes. He denied responsibility for many issues

involving Native people, saying they are a federal matter.

"I think it's…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Susan Lazaruk, Windspeaker Correspondent

    Nanoose First Nation, B.C.

Page 2

The Nanoose First Nation and a Vancouver Island developer have agreed

on a deal that allows construction to continue at a condominium project

on a Native burial site that's thousands of years old.

The tentative deal is the latest move in a battle between the band and

IntraWest Development Corp. over Craig Bay Estates near Parksville, a

scenic…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Susan Lazaruk, Windspeaker Correspondent

    Nanoose First Nation, B.C.

Page 2

The Nanoose First Nation and a Vancouver Island developer have agreed

on a deal that allows construction to continue at a condominium project

on a Native burial site that's thousands of years old.

The tentative deal is the latest move in a battle between the band and

IntraWest Development Corp. over Craig Bay Estates near Parksville, a

scenic…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Susan Lazaruk, Windspeaker Correspondent

    Nanoose First Nation, B.C.

Page 2

The Nanoose First Nation and a Vancouver Island developer have agreed

on a deal that allows construction to continue at a condominium project

on a Native burial site that's thousands of years old.

The tentative deal is the latest move in a battle between the band and

IntraWest Development Corp. over Craig Bay Estates near Parksville, a

scenic…

  • September 28, 2001
  • Stephen LaRose, Windspeaker Contributor, Regina

Page 2

Saskatchewan's status Indians will have to pay the nine-per-cent

provincial sales tax on all off-reserve purchases under a Progressive

Conservative government, said leader Bill Boyd.

The proposal is "a coded campaign to appeal to the rednecks and the

promoters of racial intolerance," said Federation of Saskatchewan Indian

Nations Chief Blaine…