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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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Native leaders in the Yukon want answers after an Aboriginal man was shot and killed by Whitehorse RCMP on Sept. 8.
According to RCMP, the officer had to use lethal force on 22-year-old Harley Clayton Johnnie, who was also known as Harley Timmers, after the two got into a scuffle and Timmers was choking the officer.
The RCMP report that in the early morning hours of…
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The Federal Court of Appeal spent five days in mid-September listening to arguments from federal government lawyers who urged the court to set aside the Federal Court decision handed down in June 1997. The decision stated that the Mohawks of Akwesasne have the Aboriginal right to carry non-commercial goods across the border without paying duty.
Last Sept. 25, three months…
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The Federal Court of Appeal spent five days in mid-September listening to arguments from federal government lawyers who urged the court to set aside the Federal Court decision handed down in June 1997. The decision stated that the Mohawks of Akwesasne have the Aboriginal right to carry non-commercial goods across the border without paying duty.
Last Sept. 25, three months…
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The Federal Court of Appeal spent five days in mid-September listening to arguments from federal government lawyers who urged the court to set aside the Federal Court decision handed down in June 1997. The decision stated that the Mohawks of Akwesasne have the Aboriginal right to carry non-commercial goods across the border without paying duty.
Last Sept. 25, three months…
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Governments are resisting the new reality of Aboriginal title and they're getting away with it because Aboriginal people aren't being aggressive enough, a British Columbia chief says.
Chief Ray Hance, a Tsilhot'in National Government co-ordinator, believes it's make-it-or-break-it time for First Nations. His tribal group of six British Columbia Interior First Nation…
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Governments are resisting the new reality of Aboriginal title and they're getting away with it because Aboriginal people aren't being aggressive enough, a British Columbia chief says.
Chief Ray Hance, a Tsilhot'in National Government co-ordinator, believes it's make-it-or-break-it time for First Nations. His tribal group of six British Columbia Interior First Nation…
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Governments are resisting the new reality of Aboriginal title and they're getting away with it because Aboriginal people aren't being aggressive enough, a British Columbia chief says.
Chief Ray Hance, a Tsilhot'in National Government co-ordinator, believes it's make-it-or-break-it time for First Nations. His tribal group of six British Columbia Interior First Nation…
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The Assembly of First Nations wants British Columbia publishing magnate David Black to make some room on his mantel for an annual journalistic "booby prize."
Black, who owns three companies that control 60 newspapers in British Columbia and one Alberta newspaper, has told his editors that any editorials and opinions in their papers on the Nisga'a Final Agreement can only…
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The Assembly of First Nations wants British Columbia publishing magnate David Black to make some room on his mantel for an annual journalistic "booby prize."
Black, who owns three companies that control 60 newspapers in British Columbia and one Alberta newspaper, has told his editors that any editorials and opinions in their papers on the Nisga'a Final Agreement can only…
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The Assembly of First Nations wants British Columbia publishing magnate David Black to make some room on his mantel for an annual journalistic "booby prize."
Black, who owns three companies that control 60 newspapers in British Columbia and one Alberta newspaper, has told his editors that any editorials and opinions in their papers on the Nisga'a Final Agreement can only…
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A dual-track school offering Cree immersion, and English and basic Cree, plans to open its doors in Thompson this September.
Eastwood School will be converted into a Cree bilingual community school. Cree language programming will be offered for kindergarten only for the 2001-2002 school year, but the intent is to add such programming at successive grade levels each year…
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A dual-track school offering Cree immersion, and English and basic Cree, plans to open its doors in Thompson this September.
Eastwood School will be converted into a Cree bilingual community school. Cree language programming will be offered for kindergarten only for the 2001-2002 school year, but the intent is to add such programming at successive grade levels each year…
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Peggy Smith is excited about seeing more Aboriginal people involved in forestry practices in Canada, she said. Their voices will have a tremendous impact on the way the industry conducts itself in the future.
Smith is with the faculty of forestry and the forest environment at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. There she examines the roles and responsibilities of…
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Peggy Smith is excited about seeing more Aboriginal people involved in forestry practices in Canada, she said. Their voices will have a tremendous impact on the way the industry conducts itself in the future.
Smith is with the faculty of forestry and the forest environment at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. There she examines the roles and responsibilities of…
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Smoking meat has long been a tradition for the Metis and in particular the Bennett family.
"My mother was an expert at it," said Art Yancey Bennett.
That's why the smoked meat business was an obvious choice for Bennett when he found himself without a job when the mines at Elliott Lake in northern Ontario closed a decade ago.
Armed with his severance pay and…