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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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Dear Editor:
The Indian Act has never helped Indian people in Canada. It has systematically destroyed them. The only chance of survival Indian people have left is to return to traditional forms of government that were in existence for millions of years before Europeans transplanted to this land.
The original Indian Act, dreamed up by Duncan Scott, was racist and…
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New York State Governor George Pataki wants the Republican nomination for the next United States presidential election. Recent events involving the issue of tax collection on sales of tobacco and gas to non-Indians by Natives living on reservations in New York State have probably assured that he will not get it.
It is a rule of political thumb, both in the United States…
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New York State Governor George Pataki wants the Republican nomination for the next United States presidential election. Recent events involving the issue of tax collection on sales of tobacco and gas to non-Indians by Natives living on reservations in New York State have probably assured that he will not get it.
It is a rule of political thumb, both in the United States…
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New York State Governor George Pataki wants the Republican nomination for the next United States presidential election. Recent events involving the issue of tax collection on sales of tobacco and gas to non-Indians by Natives living on reservations in New York State have probably assured that he will not get it.
It is a rule of political thumb, both in the United States…
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Its first dabble into federal politics was a costly one, but the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe in Oklahoma would do it all again.
"Yes we would, because we are now involved in the political process," said tribal business secretary Archie Hoffman.
A year ago, the 4,200 hectare community in the northwestern part of the state banded together with 38 other Oklahoma tribes to…
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Its first dabble into federal politics was a costly one, but the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe in Oklahoma would do it all again.
"Yes we would, because we are now involved in the political process," said tribal business secretary Archie Hoffman.
A year ago, the 4,200 hectare community in the northwestern part of the state banded together with 38 other Oklahoma tribes to…
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Its first dabble into federal politics was a costly one, but the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe in Oklahoma would do it all again.
"Yes we would, because we are now involved in the political process," said tribal business secretary Archie Hoffman.
A year ago, the 4,200 hectare community in the northwestern part of the state banded together with 38 other Oklahoma tribes to…
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By holding a press conference in the lavish setting of the Petroleum Club in Edmonton, members of the Sawridge, Ermineskin and Tsuu T'ina First Nations opened themselves up to critical questions from a small, yet persistent gallery of media.
The press conference was held to relate the good news that a 1995 court ruling that resulted in the bands' loss of an appeal of…
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By holding a press conference in the lavish setting of the Petroleum Club in Edmonton, members of the Sawridge, Ermineskin and Tsuu T'ina First Nations opened themselves up to critical questions from a small, yet persistent gallery of media.
The press conference was held to relate the good news that a 1995 court ruling that resulted in the bands' loss of an appeal of…
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By holding a press conference in the lavish setting of the Petroleum Club in Edmonton, members of the Sawridge, Ermineskin and Tsuu T'ina First Nations opened themselves up to critical questions from a small, yet persistent gallery of media.
The press conference was held to relate the good news that a 1995 court ruling that resulted in the bands' loss of an appeal of…
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What was supposed to be a week spent studying whales became a lesson in Arctic survival for 10 high school students from Baffin Island, N.W.T. stranded on a sheet of break-away ice.
The high school biology students, along with three Elders, a science teacher, an eight-year-old child and a hunter, were trapped when the sea ice they were traveling on broke free at the tip of…
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What was supposed to be a week spent studying whales became a lesson in Arctic survival for 10 high school students from Baffin Island, N.W.T. stranded on a sheet of break-away ice.
The high school biology students, along with three Elders, a science teacher, an eight-year-old child and a hunter, were trapped when the sea ice they were traveling on broke free at the tip of…
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What was supposed to be a week spent studying whales became a lesson in Arctic survival for 10 high school students from Baffin Island, N.W.T. stranded on a sheet of break-away ice.
The high school biology students, along with three Elders, a science teacher, an eight-year-old child and a hunter, were trapped when the sea ice they were traveling on broke free at the tip of…
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A Federal Court judge has come under scrutiny after dismissing another judge from a case involving Alberta's Samson Cree Nation and Ermineskin First Nation. On May 16, Associate-Chief Justice James Jerome of the Federal Court's trial division, removed Justice Douglas Campbell from a trial that is scheduled to begin on Aug. 18 in Calgary. Jerome questioned Campbell's impartiality…
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A Federal Court judge has come under scrutiny after dismissing another judge from a case involving Alberta's Samson Cree Nation and Ermineskin First Nation. On May 16, Associate-Chief Justice James Jerome of the Federal Court's trial division, removed Justice Douglas Campbell from a trial that is scheduled to begin on Aug. 18 in Calgary. Jerome questioned Campbell's impartiality…