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Willard Lewis on a tear for a title

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Get ready to rumble boxing fans. Willard Lewis has returned to his home province after a year-and-a-half absence.

From now on he'll fight under the name Red Thunder Rock, a name he said the grandfathers (spirits) gave him in a dream during a sweat lodge ceremony in Fort McMurray in 1996. He has that very determined look about him. The one that spells, "no more foolin' around, all business."

Willard Lewis on a tear for a title

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Get ready to rumble boxing fans. Willard Lewis has returned to his home province after a year-and-a-half absence.

From now on he'll fight under the name Red Thunder Rock, a name he said the grandfathers (spirits) gave him in a dream during a sweat lodge ceremony in Fort McMurray in 1996. He has that very determined look about him. The one that spells, "no more foolin' around, all business."

Willard Lewis on a tear for a title

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Get ready to rumble boxing fans. Willard Lewis has returned to his home province after a year-and-a-half absence.

From now on he'll fight under the name Red Thunder Rock, a name he said the grandfathers (spirits) gave him in a dream during a sweat lodge ceremony in Fort McMurray in 1996. He has that very determined look about him. The one that spells, "no more foolin' around, all business."

Negative attitudes about Indians revealed by poll

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Comments from callers to a Regina radio station seemed to represent the more repugnant racial attitudes of Saskatchewan residents when slurs against Indians were aired during a live call-in show.

The show was broadcast Wednesday, Feb. 25, one day after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations released the findings of a recent poll which revealed that an "overwhelming" number of Saskatchewan respondents held "negative opinions" about Indians.

Wolf 104.9 FM invited listeners to air their concerns during a segment called Bite Me Wednesday.

Negative attitudes about Indians revealed by poll

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Comments from callers to a Regina radio station seemed to represent the more repugnant racial attitudes of Saskatchewan residents when slurs against Indians were aired during a live call-in show.

The show was broadcast Wednesday, Feb. 25, one day after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations released the findings of a recent poll which revealed that an "overwhelming" number of Saskatchewan respondents held "negative opinions" about Indians.

Wolf 104.9 FM invited listeners to air their concerns during a segment called Bite Me Wednesday.

Negative attitudes about Indians revealed by poll

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Comments from callers to a Regina radio station seemed to represent the more repugnant racial attitudes of Saskatchewan residents when slurs against Indians were aired during a live call-in show.

The show was broadcast Wednesday, Feb. 25, one day after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations released the findings of a recent poll which revealed that an "overwhelming" number of Saskatchewan respondents held "negative opinions" about Indians.

Wolf 104.9 FM invited listeners to air their concerns during a segment called Bite Me Wednesday.

Political fight over new money begins

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Leaders of national Aboriginal organizations are looking carefully at the statements that were issued during the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meeting from March 9 to 11 in Edmonton. There's more than a bit of suspicion that the promised changes in AFN behavior are linked to new funding from the federal government that was announced when Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart unveiled her department's new action plan on Jan. 7.

Political fight over new money begins

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Leaders of national Aboriginal organizations are looking carefully at the statements that were issued during the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meeting from March 9 to 11 in Edmonton. There's more than a bit of suspicion that the promised changes in AFN behavior are linked to new funding from the federal government that was announced when Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart unveiled her department's new action plan on Jan. 7.

Political fight over new money begins

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Leaders of national Aboriginal organizations are looking carefully at the statements that were issued during the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meeting from March 9 to 11 in Edmonton. There's more than a bit of suspicion that the promised changes in AFN behavior are linked to new funding from the federal government that was announced when Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart unveiled her department's new action plan on Jan. 7.

Mother and child killed in shootout

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An RCMP constable shot and killed a Tsuu T'ina mother and her nine-year-old son in the late evening of March 22 on the Tsuu T'ina Nation and left a community in shock and grief.

A Tsuu T'ina Family and Social Services worker, accompanied by a band police officer, was attempting to seize Connie Jacobs' children and, when she resisted, the worker called the Okotoks RCMP for assistance.