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Education can stop the spread of AIDS but teaching people to protect themselves is a slow process, an American health educator told an Edmonton conference recently.

Joan Lewis works with the American Indian Health Care Association in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been involved in AIDS education since 1988. AIDS can be stopped

if people change the way they act, she said at the recent Healing Our Spirit Worldwide conference.

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Education can stop the spread of AIDS but teaching people to protect themselves is a slow process, an American health educator told an Edmonton conference recently.

Joan Lewis works with the American Indian Health Care Association in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been involved in AIDS education since 1988. AIDS can be stopped

if people change the way they act, she said at the recent Healing Our Spirit Worldwide conference.

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Education can stop the spread of AIDS but teaching people to protect themselves is a slow process, an American health educator told an Edmonton conference recently.

Joan Lewis works with the American Indian Health Care Association in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been involved in AIDS education since 1988. AIDS can be stopped

if people change the way they act, she said at the recent Healing Our Spirit Worldwide conference.

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Alcohol and drug abuse among New Zealand's young aboriginals has reached near epidemic proportions.

But after 150 years of colonial domination, the Maori people are experiencing a resurgence of new pride and new hope for the future. And with that new-found pride they hope to overcome their substance abuse problems.

Wendy Arahanga of Auckland, New Zealand, told an audience at the recent international conference on healing that alcohol and drug abuse were unknown among her people only a generation ago.

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Alcohol and drug abuse among New Zealand's young aboriginals has reached near epidemic proportions.

But after 150 years of colonial domination, the Maori people are experiencing a resurgence of new pride and new hope for the future. And with that new-found pride they hope to overcome their substance abuse problems.

Wendy Arahanga of Auckland, New Zealand, told an audience at the recent international conference on healing that alcohol and drug abuse were unknown among her people only a generation ago.

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Alcohol and drug abuse among New Zealand's young aboriginals has reached near epidemic proportions.

But after 150 years of colonial domination, the Maori people are experiencing a resurgence of new pride and new hope for the future. And with that new-found pride they hope to overcome their substance abuse problems.

Wendy Arahanga of Auckland, New Zealand, told an audience at the recent international conference on healing that alcohol and drug abuse were unknown among her people only a generation ago.

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Alcohol and drug abuse among New Zealand's young aboriginals has reached near epidemic proportions.

But after 150 years of colonial domination, the Maori people are experiencing a resurgence of new pride and new hope for the future. And with that new-found pride they hope to overcome their substance abuse problems.

Wendy Arahanga of Auckland, New Zealand, told an audience at the recent international conference on healing that alcohol and drug abuse were unknown among her people only a generation ago.

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The defeat of the Charlottetown accord shouldn't stop work towards self-government at the community level, says leaders of some of Manitoba's Native organizations.

"The struggle continues at the community level whether the vote had gone yes

or no," said Kathy Mallet, a spokesman for Winnipeg's Original Women's Network.

"There too much time spent on this stuff.....If we had that money spent at the community level look how far ahead we could be."

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The Saskatchewan government wants protesters blockading a northern logging road to dismantle their six-month-old camp. But members of the Protectors of Mother Earth organization say they are going to stay put.

Doug Cressman, the province's deputy minister of natural resources, has sent a letter to the group asking them to leave their cabins, tents and trailers on Highway 903 about 65 km north of Meadow Lake.

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The Saskatchewan government wants protesters blockading a northern logging road to dismantle their six-month-old camp. But members of the Protectors of Mother Earth organization say they are going to stay put.

Doug Cressman, the province's deputy minister of natural resources, has sent a letter to the group asking them to leave their cabins, tents and trailers on Highway 903 about 65 km north of Meadow Lake.