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Talks between Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon and Lubicon chief Bernard Ominayak last week lived up to their tradition. Reporters stood around in a hotel hallway while officials from the various camps scurried around one closed door to another.

At the end of the day, the two leaders emerged apparently no closer to a settlement than at their previous meetings. Again, they agreed to get together in the near future.

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It is alarming that hundreds of thousands of sockeye salmon failed to arrive at

their Fraser River spawning grounds in British Columbia. But to put the blame for this shortfall on the shoulders of commercial Native fishermen is simply the actions of desperate men frantically seeking a scapegoat.

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It is alarming that hundreds of thousands of sockeye salmon failed to arrive at

their Fraser River spawning grounds in British Columbia. But to put the blame for this shortfall on the shoulders of commercial Native fishermen is simply the actions of desperate men frantically seeking a scapegoat.

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It is alarming that hundreds of thousands of sockeye salmon failed to arrive at

their Fraser River spawning grounds in British Columbia. But to put the blame for this shortfall on the shoulders of commercial Native fishermen is simply the actions of desperate men frantically seeking a scapegoat.

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It is alarming that hundreds of thousands of sockeye salmon failed to arrive at

their Fraser River spawning grounds in British Columbia. But to put the blame for this shortfall on the shoulders of commercial Native fishermen is simply the actions of desperate men frantically seeking a scapegoat.

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The changing political tide for Native people in Canada is forcing a steady stream of newly unemployed out of the public sector and into a job market that's even more difficult to tread.

And federal government studies predict a decline in public service jobs for Natives this decade as the trend for aboriginal self-government continues.

The department most affected by a loss of Native employees, the studies indicate, is the one created exclusively to provide services to aboriginal people.

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The changing political tide for Native people in Canada is forcing a steady stream of newly unemployed out of the public sector and into a job market that's even more difficult to tread.

And federal government studies predict a decline in public service jobs for Natives this decade as the trend for aboriginal self-government continues.

The department most affected by a loss of Native employees, the studies indicate, is the one created exclusively to provide services to aboriginal people.

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The changing political tide for Native people in Canada is forcing a steady stream of newly unemployed out of the public sector and into a job market that's even more difficult to tread.

And federal government studies predict a decline in public service jobs for Natives this decade as the trend for aboriginal self-government continues.

The department most affected by a loss of Native employees, the studies indicate, is the one created exclusively to provide services to aboriginal people.

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The changing political tide for Native people in Canada is forcing a steady stream of newly unemployed out of the public sector and into a job market that's even more difficult to tread.

And federal government studies predict a decline in public service jobs for Natives this decade as the trend for aboriginal self-government continues.

The department most affected by a loss of Native employees, the studies indicate, is the one created exclusively to provide services to aboriginal people.

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Alberta Metis are one step closer to self government after signing an agreement with the federal and provincial governments.

The deal means the federal government will be working with Alberta Metis for the first time in planning, said Jake Epp, minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, with responsibilities for the Metis.

A key goal is "to establish practical methods of self-government," said Epp.