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A major rock slide on July 2 has closed one of the most sacred areas in North America.

Chief Mountain, an outstanding landmark in north central Montana and southwestern Alberta, and the primary spiritual place for the Blackfoot peoples and other Plains Indians, have been declared unsafe. Since the slide, trails in the area have been closed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Blackfeet Tribal Council.

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An alcohol-fuelled family fight in a remote northern Manitoba reserve ended in the stabbing death of the community's young chief.

Noah David Redhead, 28, died in a Thompson, Man. hospital hours after being fatally wounded on the 800-member Shamattawa reserve, about 750 kilometres north of Winnipeg. His wife, 23-year-old Jessie Redhead, has been charged with second-degree murder.

"There are a lot of sad people walking around right now. They have lost their chief," said Wanda Helman, chief nurse at the nursing station on the supposedly dry reserve.

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An alcohol-fuelled family fight in a remote northern Manitoba reserve ended in the stabbing death of the community's young chief.

Noah David Redhead, 28, died in a Thompson, Man. hospital hours after being fatally wounded on the 800-member Shamattawa reserve, about 750 kilometres north of Winnipeg. His wife, 23-year-old Jessie Redhead, has been charged with second-degree murder.

"There are a lot of sad people walking around right now. They have lost their chief," said Wanda Helman, chief nurse at the nursing station on the supposedly dry reserve.

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An alcohol-fuelled family fight in a remote northern Manitoba reserve ended in the stabbing death of the community's young chief.

Noah David Redhead, 28, died in a Thompson, Man. hospital hours after being fatally wounded on the 800-member Shamattawa reserve, about 750 kilometres north of Winnipeg. His wife, 23-year-old Jessie Redhead, has been charged with second-degree murder.

"There are a lot of sad people walking around right now. They have lost their chief," said Wanda Helman, chief nurse at the nursing station on the supposedly dry reserve.

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An alcohol-fuelled family fight in a remote northern Manitoba reserve ended in the stabbing death of the community's young chief.

Noah David Redhead, 28, died in a Thompson, Man. hospital hours after being fatally wounded on the 800-member Shamattawa reserve, about 750 kilometres north of Winnipeg. His wife, 23-year-old Jessie Redhead, has been charged with second-degree murder.

"There are a lot of sad people walking around right now. They have lost their chief," said Wanda Helman, chief nurse at the nursing station on the supposedly dry reserve.

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Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon presented a new offer on the 50-year-old Lubicon land settlement dispute to chief Bernard Ominayak.

Neither side was releasing details of the proposal after a one-hour meeting in Edmonton. But Siddon suggested the new proposal includes more money than the government's $45-million, take-it-or-leave-it offer that has been a long-standing point

of dispute.

"When you see the elements of this proposal you will see that it is our best effort

at responding to the matters the Lubicon people have raised," he said.

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Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon presented a new offer on the 50-year-old Lubicon land settlement dispute to chief Bernard Ominayak.

Neither side was releasing details of the proposal after a one-hour meeting in Edmonton. But Siddon suggested the new proposal includes more money than the government's $45-million, take-it-or-leave-it offer that has been a long-standing point

of dispute.

"When you see the elements of this proposal you will see that it is our best effort

at responding to the matters the Lubicon people have raised," he said.

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Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon presented a new offer on the 50-year-old Lubicon land settlement dispute to chief Bernard Ominayak.

Neither side was releasing details of the proposal after a one-hour meeting in Edmonton. But Siddon suggested the new proposal includes more money than the government's $45-million, take-it-or-leave-it offer that has been a long-standing point

of dispute.

"When you see the elements of this proposal you will see that it is our best effort

at responding to the matters the Lubicon people have raised," he said.

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Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon presented a new offer on the 50-year-old Lubicon land settlement dispute to chief Bernard Ominayak.

Neither side was releasing details of the proposal after a one-hour meeting in Edmonton. But Siddon suggested the new proposal includes more money than the government's $45-million, take-it-or-leave-it offer that has been a long-standing point

of dispute.

"When you see the elements of this proposal you will see that it is our best effort

at responding to the matters the Lubicon people have raised," he said.

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Demonstrators attempting to pressure the non-status woman elected chief of their northern Alberta reserve vowed to continue their protest despite a court order keeping them out of the band hall.

"Everything has been affected by this," said one member of the protest camp at Sturgeon Lake, about 350 km northwest of Edmonton. "Don't make this sound like a petty argument...People's day-to-day lives are being affected here because she is not treaty."