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Dear Editor:

I am on the Lubicon membership list, and have been labeled a dissident by the media and Indian Affairs because I and others with shared philosophies have been trying to correct the imbalances of power we perceive in our communities.

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Dear Editor:

I am on the Lubicon membership list, and have been labeled a dissident by the media and Indian Affairs because I and others with shared philosophies have been trying to correct the imbalances of power we perceive in our communities.

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Dear Editor:

The following response to the Aug. 24 Peoples Forum on Aboriginal Issues that was conducted in Fredericton by M.P. Andy Scott was hand delivered to Mr. Scott. Questions were posed for participants to consider. Included here are the questions for the "Justice Issue" circle in which I participated.

Questions:

What type of alternative Native justice mechanism could be used in urban settings such as Fredericton, Moncton or St. John? What would be required to implement alternative Native justice mechanisms into the existing court system?

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Follow me here: David battled Goliath. Aboriginal people in Canada have sure been fighting Goliaths for a very long time and they don't often win. That's why when an entire community can come together to battle any Goliath, they should be recognized for their courage, not silenced as in the case of the Lubicon Cree and their supporters.

The Lubicon have been facing their own Goliath in the form of the pulp and paper giant, Daishowa, the multi-national that set up shop in their back yard.

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Follow me here: David battled Goliath. Aboriginal people in Canada have sure been fighting Goliaths for a very long time and they don't often win. That's why when an entire community can come together to battle any Goliath, they should be recognized for their courage, not silenced as in the case of the Lubicon Cree and their supporters.

The Lubicon have been facing their own Goliath in the form of the pulp and paper giant, Daishowa, the multi-national that set up shop in their back yard.

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Follow me here: David battled Goliath. Aboriginal people in Canada have sure been fighting Goliaths for a very long time and they don't often win. That's why when an entire community can come together to battle any Goliath, they should be recognized for their courage, not silenced as in the case of the Lubicon Cree and their supporters.

The Lubicon have been facing their own Goliath in the form of the pulp and paper giant, Daishowa, the multi-national that set up shop in their back yard.

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Not long ago I received a letter from a woman whom I shall call Linda. Unfortunately the envelope with her return address had been lost in transit. In this letter she struggled to share some of the anger and confusion she felt at being a person trapped between two cultures. She is the product of an Irish mother and a Mohawk father who had evidently separated when she was young and, as a result, had practically no contact with her Aboriginal roots during her adolescence.

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Alanis King-Odjig tells the creation story in a way most people in the tent have never heard it before. As a sister pounds the drum, Alanis acts as a messenger between two worlds.

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Alanis King-Odjig tells the creation story in a way most people in the tent have never heard it before. As a sister pounds the drum, Alanis acts as a messenger between two worlds.

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Alanis King-Odjig tells the creation story in a way most people in the tent have never heard it before. As a sister pounds the drum, Alanis acts as a messenger between two worlds.