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A recessed economy and stiffer competition for limited space in university have resulted in an increase in racial discrimination against Native students.

Native student association officials are reporting a jump in the number of racist remarks and acts against Indians by non-Aboriginal students and professors.

Non-Aboriginals are usually tolerant of Natives attending university as long as they feel the Natives are not taking someone else's place or getting a free ride, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg Native student adviser Florence Bruyere said.

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A recessed economy and stiffer competition for limited space in university have resulted in an increase in racial discrimination against Native students.

Native student association officials are reporting a jump in the number of racist remarks and acts against Indians by non-Aboriginal students and professors.

Non-Aboriginals are usually tolerant of Natives attending university as long as they feel the Natives are not taking someone else's place or getting a free ride, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg Native student adviser Florence Bruyere said.

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A recessed economy and stiffer competition for limited space in university have resulted in an increase in racial discrimination against Native students.

Native student association officials are reporting a jump in the number of racist remarks and acts against Indians by non-Aboriginal students and professors.

Non-Aboriginals are usually tolerant of Natives attending university as long as they feel the Natives are not taking someone else's place or getting a free ride, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg Native student adviser Florence Bruyere said.

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A recessed economy and stiffer competition for limited space in university have resulted in an increase in racial discrimination against Native students.

Native student association officials are reporting a jump in the number of racist remarks and acts against Indians by non-Aboriginal students and professors.

Non-Aboriginals are usually tolerant of Natives attending university as long as they feel the Natives are not taking someone else's place or getting a free ride, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg Native student adviser Florence Bruyere said.

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Native leaders across Canada cautiously applauded Ottawa's decision to accelerate Native self-government talks with Aboriginals and the provinces in the next few months.

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs welcomed the news with guarded optimism. The first task facing every Native authority will be to define the term self-government, said union head Saul Terry.

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Loneliness and isolation usually accompanied a diagnosis of tuberculosis for Indian and Inuit people, who were forced to spend their recovery times in sanatoriums hundreds of miles from home.

Before effective antibiotic treatments came into use in the 1960s, that stay could last years, and Indigenous peoples were usually surrounded by a strange environment and people who did not even speak the same language.

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Loneliness and isolation usually accompanied a diagnosis of tuberculosis for Indian and Inuit people, who were forced to spend their recovery times in sanatoriums hundreds of miles from home.

Before effective antibiotic treatments came into use in the 1960s, that stay could last years, and Indigenous peoples were usually surrounded by a strange environment and people who did not even speak the same language.

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Loneliness and isolation usually accompanied a diagnosis of tuberculosis for Indian and Inuit people, who were forced to spend their recovery times in sanatoriums hundreds of miles from home.

Before effective antibiotic treatments came into use in the 1960s, that stay could last years, and Indigenous peoples were usually surrounded by a strange environment and people who did not even speak the same language.

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Loneliness and isolation usually accompanied a diagnosis of tuberculosis for Indian and Inuit people, who were forced to spend their recovery times in sanatoriums hundreds of miles from home.

Before effective antibiotic treatments came into use in the 1960s, that stay could last years, and Indigenous peoples were usually surrounded by a strange environment and people who did not even speak the same language.

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Canada should recognize hunting rights of three northern Saskatchewan Native bands, the Indian Claims Commissions reported late last month.

The commission ruled the Athabasca Denesuline Nation near Fond du Lac, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake have the right to hunt, fish and trap throughout their traditional territories.

And Ottawa is obliged to "recognize and protect" those rights, Chief Commissioner Harry LaForme said.