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Reserve, Alta.

The chief and council from the Alexander reserve are questioning the validity of a petition signed by 129 band members.

The petitioned was delivered by disgruntled band member Leslie Bruno recently favoring a change in the term of the chief and council from three years to two years.

Band members are fed up with the lack of representation of band members shown by the band council, Bruno had stated earlier.

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Winnipeg

Just before he was to appear before Manitoba's native justice inquiry, the police inspector who investigated the J.J. Harper shooting killed himself in the basement of his south Winnipeg home

police chief Herb Stephen said yesterday.

Insp. Ken Dowson, 43, waited until his wife and three children were out of the house, then shot himself with his own service revolver.

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The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) was formed by the former staff of the Alberta Native Communications Society which closed its doors in December of 1982 following

sixteen years of operation.

This dedicated group became the first board of AMMSA, incorporated January 21, 1983, consisting of Bert Crowfoot, President; Laurent Roy, Vice President; Vivian Roller, Secretay-Treasurer;

Harold Woodward, Board Member; and Gabriel Deshamps, Board Member.

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Long awaited, post-secondary education policy changes announced by the federal government offer nothing but false hope, says a spokesperson for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).

The changes turned out to be a public relations ploy instead of a progressive step for Native people in Canada, Liz Thunder said during a phone interview from her Ottawa office Tuesday.

"The government is really giving us nothing new," she said.

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The builders of $500 million pulp mill near Peace River, Alberta have singed a forest management agreement (FMA) with the province that includes the traditional hunting grounds of the Lubicon

Indian band.

Daishowa Canada Ltd. was given access to 25,000 square kilometres of timer land in northern Alberta for use in its bleach kraft pulp mill process. Construction of the mill is scheduled to be

completed in March 1991.

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Windspeaker took four of the eight National Aboriginal Communications Society awards at the NACS annual conference held in Whitehorse last week.

It received awards for best overall newspaper for its special section on drug abuse and alcoholism, titled 'People On The Edge'; best news photography -- 'Needle in neck' by Everett Lambert;

best design and layout; and best local column for Richard Wagamese's 'Vision and the Quest' in his weekly Touching the Circle column.

Fourteen newspapers entered the competition from all over North America.

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Ousted Kehewin chief Gordon Gadwa says he's prepared to resign to make way for an all-council re-election to resolve the five week old leadership dispute that has split the Kehewin band in this

northern Alberta community.

The 44 year old chief, who had ruled the reserve for 10 years until Aug. 17 when he was ousted by six of eight band council members, made his remarks during a break in a day long meeting held

Sept. 21 between two opposing factions on the reserve.

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The National Child Benefit (NCB), which is delivered jointly by federal, provincial and territorial governments along with some First Nations, was introduced in 1998 as a form of income support for low-income families.

It has three objectives: It is intended to help reduce child poverty; to promote employment and training to remain employed; and to harmonize program objectives and benefits, and simplify administration, according to information released by Indian Affairs.

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The mention of a thunderbird conjures up images of wonder and majesty, beauty and longevity. Perhaps it was because renowned artist Norval Morrisseau was given the name Thunderbird by his grandfather, that he set upon the path to found the Woodland School of Anishnaabe Art, a style of artistic expression recognized around the globe.

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There's a lot more to David Hannan and his art than his Metis identity, but there's no question that identity informs the body of his mixed media work, a collection that brings him significant national recognition at the age of 32.

Hannan was born in Ottawa, a city he describes as an "up and coming" artistic centre these days, but he resides in Toronto, where "you can attend a dance performance, you can go to a puppet show, you can go to an art show, all in the same day."

He graduatee from the Ontario College of Art a dozen years ago, and never left Toronto.