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Pikiskwe

For the aboriginal people of the Americas, 500 years is just a heartbeat in our lifetime. Our history began thousands of years before the sadist Christopher Columbus stumbled upon our shores.

Our ancestors hunted the Mastodon and traversed the glaciers to settle at the southern most tip of South America and all places in between. Before Columbus arrived, they built the temples at Teotihuacan, developed the 365-day calendar and understood the concept of "zero".

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Pikiskwe

For the aboriginal people of the Americas, 500 years is just a heartbeat in our lifetime. Our history began thousands of years before the sadist Christopher Columbus stumbled upon our shores.

Our ancestors hunted the Mastodon and traversed the glaciers to settle at the southern most tip of South America and all places in between. Before Columbus arrived, they built the temples at Teotihuacan, developed the 365-day calendar and understood the concept of "zero".

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Pikiskwe

For the aboriginal people of the Americas, 500 years is just a heartbeat in our lifetime. Our history began thousands of years before the sadist Christopher Columbus stumbled upon our shores.

Our ancestors hunted the Mastodon and traversed the glaciers to settle at the southern most tip of South America and all places in between. Before Columbus arrived, they built the temples at Teotihuacan, developed the 365-day calendar and understood the concept of "zero".

Page 4

Pikiskwe

For the aboriginal people of the Americas, 500 years is just a heartbeat in our lifetime. Our history began thousands of years before the sadist Christopher Columbus stumbled upon our shores.

Our ancestors hunted the Mastodon and traversed the glaciers to settle at the southern most tip of South America and all places in between. Before Columbus arrived, they built the temples at Teotihuacan, developed the 365-day calendar and understood the concept of "zero".

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On Oct. 26 we'll all be asked to put a mark next to a word, either yes or no. There won't be a maybe. There won't be the option to say we'd like to think about things a little longer.

And Prime Minister Brian Mulroney assures us we face economic chaos and other disasters if we do not ratify the Charlottetown accord right away. It gets very confusing very quickly.

But that is what the political strategists in Ottawa want. It's easier to force the vote in their favor through public ignorance and intimidation.

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Natives who cast their votes from urban areas in the Oct. 26 referendum will

not be counted separately like the votes of those in aboriginal communities and reserves, Elections Canada announced recently.

That decision has left urban Natives wondering if the self-governing status promised in the agreement has been breached before the vote even takes place.

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Natives who cast their votes from urban areas in the Oct. 26 referendum will

not be counted separately like the votes of those in aboriginal communities and reserves, Elections Canada announced recently.

That decision has left urban Natives wondering if the self-governing status promised in the agreement has been breached before the vote even takes place.

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Natives who cast their votes from urban areas in the Oct. 26 referendum will

not be counted separately like the votes of those in aboriginal communities and reserves, Elections Canada announced recently.

That decision has left urban Natives wondering if the self-governing status promised in the agreement has been breached before the vote even takes place.

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Natives who cast their votes from urban areas in the Oct. 26 referendum will

not be counted separately like the votes of those in aboriginal communities and reserves, Elections Canada announced recently.

That decision has left urban Natives wondering if the self-governing status promised in the agreement has been breached before the vote even takes place.

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There's no telling which way First Nation opinion in Manitoha will blow when the winds of the national referendum sweep Canada Oct. 26, community leaders say.

Although the province's First Nations are treaty bands in general, there has not been a flat rejection of the constitutional process.

That does not mean the deal stands unopposed. There are concerns it may water down existing treaty rights. Some people are leaning towards a "No" vote because women didn't participate directly in negotiations.