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As a manager of the band-owned Standoff Restaurant on the Blood Nation reserve in southern Alberta three years ago, Patsy Rabbit was getting fed up with her job.

"I was getting so frustrated because the band was always saying that I wasn't making enough money for them," she said. "One day I thought, I'd like to be on my own."

Problem was, even after working for the restaurant for 20 years, Rabbit had no idea how to run a business of her own.

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As a manager of the band-owned Standoff Restaurant on the Blood Nation reserve in southern Alberta three years ago, Patsy Rabbit was getting fed up with her job.

"I was getting so frustrated because the band was always saying that I wasn't making enough money for them," she said. "One day I thought, I'd like to be on my own."

Problem was, even after working for the restaurant for 20 years, Rabbit had no idea how to run a business of her own.

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As a manager of the band-owned Standoff Restaurant on the Blood Nation reserve in southern Alberta three years ago, Patsy Rabbit was getting fed up with her job.

"I was getting so frustrated because the band was always saying that I wasn't making enough money for them," she said. "One day I thought, I'd like to be on my own."

Problem was, even after working for the restaurant for 20 years, Rabbit had no idea how to run a business of her own.

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Spoken promises about land use were traditionally ignored when it came time to write treaty agreements, the audience attending an environment conference in Edmonton heard.

The spirit and intent of Treaty 8, signed in 1899, led more than 25,000 Native people in Canada's boreal forests to mistakenly trust their traditional lifestyles would be protected, said one chief.

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Spoken promises about land use were traditionally ignored when it came time to write treaty agreements, the audience attending an environment conference in Edmonton heard.

The spirit and intent of Treaty 8, signed in 1899, led more than 25,000 Native people in Canada's boreal forests to mistakenly trust their traditional lifestyles would be protected, said one chief.

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Spoken promises about land use were traditionally ignored when it came time to write treaty agreements, the audience attending an environment conference in Edmonton heard.

The spirit and intent of Treaty 8, signed in 1899, led more than 25,000 Native people in Canada's boreal forests to mistakenly trust their traditional lifestyles would be protected, said one chief.

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Spoken promises about land use were traditionally ignored when it came time to write treaty agreements, the audience attending an environment conference in Edmonton heard.

The spirit and intent of Treaty 8, signed in 1899, led more than 25,000 Native people in Canada's boreal forests to mistakenly trust their traditional lifestyles would be protected, said one chief.

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If you're one of the thousands of Crees on waiting for subsidized housing, the news isn't good. At the current rate of housing construction, it will take until the year 2009 before every Eastern James Bay Cree who needs a new home right now get one. And that's not counting the fact that another 75 families are added to the waiting list for subsidized housing each year.

"At that rate, we'll never catch up," said Brian Craik, responsible for housing issues at the Grand Council of the Crees.

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If you're one of the thousands of Crees on waiting for subsidized housing, the news isn't good. At the current rate of housing construction, it will take until the year 2009 before every Eastern James Bay Cree who needs a new home right now get one. And that's not counting the fact that another 75 families are added to the waiting list for subsidized housing each year.

"At that rate, we'll never catch up," said Brian Craik, responsible for housing issues at the Grand Council of the Crees.

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If you're one of the thousands of Crees on waiting for subsidized housing, the news isn't good. At the current rate of housing construction, it will take until the year 2009 before every Eastern James Bay Cree who needs a new home right now get one. And that's not counting the fact that another 75 families are added to the waiting list for subsidized housing each year.

"At that rate, we'll never catch up," said Brian Craik, responsible for housing issues at the Grand Council of the Crees.