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Most survivors of Indian residential schools believe that both the church and the federal government were responsible for their torment, but one victim and his colleague believe the federal government is including the churches as defendants in litigation just to muddy the waters.

Alvin Tolley, an Algonquin school survivor, is working with Walter Rudnicki to set up a national residential school survivors organization. Rudnicki is an Ottawa consultant with experience as an Indian Affairs and Privy Council Office policy analyst who now advises First Nation leaders.

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Most survivors of Indian residential schools believe that both the church and the federal government were responsible for their torment, but one victim and his colleague believe the federal government is including the churches as defendants in litigation just to muddy the waters.

Alvin Tolley, an Algonquin school survivor, is working with Walter Rudnicki to set up a national residential school survivors organization. Rudnicki is an Ottawa consultant with experience as an Indian Affairs and Privy Council Office policy analyst who now advises First Nation leaders.

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There is a monumental change underway in Mexican society, and we northern people should be paying close attention to the struggle of our brothers and sisters in the south. In spite of the apparent differences between us, and between the two countries, our struggle is the same. They have been colonized by Spaniards just as Frenchmen and Britons have colonized us; and now they are fighting for their lands, to ensure their survival as Indigenous people, and to gain recognition of their rights.

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There is a monumental change underway in Mexican society, and we northern people should be paying close attention to the struggle of our brothers and sisters in the south. In spite of the apparent differences between us, and between the two countries, our struggle is the same. They have been colonized by Spaniards just as Frenchmen and Britons have colonized us; and now they are fighting for their lands, to ensure their survival as Indigenous people, and to gain recognition of their rights.

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Dear Editor:

I see your situation as not a problem within the Métis Nation. As I see it, hunting is an ancestral right amongst the Métis peoples.

Canada should recognize this right Métis people have to this land we call Canada. Let's go back in history when Métis buffalo hunters provided food to the North West Mounted Police by hunting and mapping out new trails for Her Majesty, the Queen.

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Dear Editor:

I see your situation as not a problem within the Métis Nation. As I see it, hunting is an ancestral right amongst the Métis peoples.

Canada should recognize this right Métis people have to this land we call Canada. Let's go back in history when Métis buffalo hunters provided food to the North West Mounted Police by hunting and mapping out new trails for Her Majesty, the Queen.

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When I told people I was going to Whitehorse, I got a blank stare.

"In January?" was often the comment I got. Yes, in January. I didn't mind the unusual responses, because, in a way, it all made sense, especially since I was going up north to attend the first annual Whitehorse Comedy Festival. And whenever I think of people going to Whitehorse in January, I burst out laughing.

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When I told people I was going to Whitehorse, I got a blank stare.

"In January?" was often the comment I got. Yes, in January. I didn't mind the unusual responses, because, in a way, it all made sense, especially since I was going up north to attend the first annual Whitehorse Comedy Festival. And whenever I think of people going to Whitehorse in January, I burst out laughing.

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National Chief Matthew Coon Come has become the darling of the mainstream conservative press with comments made at the Assembly of First Nations' health conference in Ottawa in February.

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National Chief Matthew Coon Come has become the darling of the mainstream conservative press with comments made at the Assembly of First Nations' health conference in Ottawa in February.