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Reading about a Native doll contest in the Windspeaker sparked local resident Bertha Bird to put her sewing skills and imagination to work.

The 47 year old sewing instructor entered her granny doll and won first place honors recently in The Indian Arts and Crafts Society's Native doll contest.

Bird's award was a cash prize of $1,000.

"The doll was conceived to remind the viewer to care and respect the Elders," said Bird.

Attention to detail and the endearing face determined the doll's first place finish.

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Jeff Morrow

Indian hunter George Alexson never used to need help when he went into the bush to bag some elk in order to feed his family.

Now, he's facing a court battle with local ranchers who claim he's not authorized to be on their land.

Alexson says his status as an Indian permits him to hunt where he wants, and he's got the public to back him up.

When Alexson, 39, went tracking an 800 lb elk bull into the woods near Valleyview, Alberta last year, he caught the ire of provincial officials who charged him with hunting without a license on

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A way of entertainment for fishermen, is by way of yarn.

Most fishermen, after a day of fishing would sit around a campfire sharing stories on their best catches.

The rational behind the yarns was to see who could tell the biggest and best fish stories.

There's two northern fishermen that occasionally get a chance to meet and still share a few fish stories. These encounters usually draw a crowd.

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Edmonton

There are few changes in hunting regulation for Natives in 1989. The following regulations apply only to Treaty Indians:

Treaty Indians who hunt on a subsistence level (killing only enough to feed their families), can hunt on unoccupied Crown land and on privately owned land where they have gained special

permission from the owner.

In these areas, Treaty Indians are not always required to follow Alberta's hunting legislation.

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The Alberta Human Rights Commission, which has come under fire recently for not being effective enough in cleaning up human rights violations in the province, is getting its hands dirty once more, says commission chairman Fil Fraser.

He said the human rights watchdog group is formulating a new process in dealing with complaints that fall under the 1972 Individual Rights Protection Act (IRPA).

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Tansi, ahnee and hello.

Changes.

Outside my window this morning there is bright sun in the sky. The sky that holds it is a hard blue. The air is clean, crisp and rich with the sounds of birds.

A new season.

At first glance it would almost seem like another lazy summer morning not unlike the ninety or so summer mornings which have just passed.

Mornings all have that quality, I suppose. Minus the presence of snow they are all, at first glance, as fresh and full of promise as any other.

The edges.

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Fort Macleod's former sewage plant supervisor said Christopher Twigg could not have entered the disaster tank by himself in 1977.

"Well, that's just my opinion, but he didn't go in by himself," said George Bota Thursday at the Rolf inquiry.

The inquiry was ordered by Premier Don Getty to look into strained relations between the Blood Band and RCMP and Lethbridge city police after a request from Blood band chief Roy Fox who

felt a number of sudden deaths were not properly investigated.

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Canada's national Native organization made its plea for the preservation of the world's timber resources during the opening day session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City Sept. 19.

Assembly of First Nations (AFN) environment spokesman Joe Norton told a corps of international media outside the UN building that Indians in Canada are opposed to the industrialization of Third World countries at the risk of destroying Aboriginal culture.

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Sporadic fighting on the besieged Mohawk Indian reserve located on the Canada U.S. border near Montreal, is on the verge of escalating into a full scale war, says the reserve's newspaper

publisher.

An arsenal of weapons, including Uzi assault rifles and hand grenades purchased in New York State, are being stockpiled in preparation for what could result in a bloody battle which has been

brewing for three months, Doug George said.

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Once again the Dene Tha referendum on the leadership of 81 year old Chief Harry Chonkolay has been cancelled.

Without an electoral officer appointed, the referendum scheduled for Sept. 15, was cancelled.

Rather than reschedule the referendum, Warren Daniels, coordinator of the referendum, plans to organize a general meeting involving the three communities, so band members can decide what

direction they would like to take.