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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.

Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes

in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador.

The provincial government is threatening to cut off electrical power to about 80 unmetered Innu homes in Sheshatshiu, Labrador, if the power meters are not replaced.

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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.

Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes

in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador.

The provincial government is threatening to cut off electrical power to about 80 unmetered Innu homes in Sheshatshiu, Labrador, if the power meters are not replaced.

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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.

Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes

in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador.

The provincial government is threatening to cut off electrical power to about 80 unmetered Innu homes in Sheshatshiu, Labrador, if the power meters are not replaced.

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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.

Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes

in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador.

The provincial government is threatening to cut off electrical power to about 80 unmetered Innu homes in Sheshatshiu, Labrador, if the power meters are not replaced.

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Windspeaker Contributor Marlene Dolan interviewed Ovide Mercredi, Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, at the recent AFN assembly in Calgary.

In terms of self-government, what is the next step of the AFN?

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Fourteen Inuit children at a substance abuse treatment centre in Alberta will not be returned to their community in northern Labrador when they go home later this month.

The children from Davis Inlet will be sent to Sango Bay, the proposed site for the new village, said band Chief Katie Rich.

The children cannot be returned to the inlet because the temptation to start sniffing gasoline would be too strong, she said. The band wants to establish a camp at Sango Bay, 15 km from Davis Inlet, to act as a transition site before the children return home.

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Native issues sprang to the forefront of federal electoral politics last month during the Assembly of First Nations annual meeting near Calgary.

Federal NDP leader Audrey McLaughlin blasted Prime Minister Kim Campbell

and the federal Conservative party for "their arrogant" disregard of Natives' rights to self-government.

"A disregard for Aboriginal issues has increased since Kim Campbell became leader of the Conservative party," she said.

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Land claim talks between Natives and governments officials in Ontario have stalled over a breach of negotiations etiquette.

The Teme-Augama band in north-central Ontario denounced the provincial government for prematurely releasing information about its land claim offer.

The settlement offer was published in violation of an established protocol by which both parties refrained from publicizing their positions, band officials said in a press release.

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Land claim talks between Natives and governments officials in Ontario have stalled over a breach of negotiations etiquette.

The Teme-Augama band in north-central Ontario denounced the provincial government for prematurely releasing information about its land claim offer.

The settlement offer was published in violation of an established protocol by which both parties refrained from publicizing their positions, band officials said in a press release.

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Land claim talks between Natives and governments officials in Ontario have stalled over a breach of negotiations etiquette.

The Teme-Augama band in north-central Ontario denounced the provincial government for prematurely releasing information about its land claim offer.

The settlement offer was published in violation of an established protocol by which both parties refrained from publicizing their positions, band officials said in a press release.