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Summer approaches and anyone who is a student of Native current affairs

can hear the rumblings beginning to sound. It is going to to another

long, intense summer in Indian Counry.

A phone call from a CBC news progam to Windspeaker this last month got

us shaking our heads. CBC often picks Windspeaker's collective brain

to short-cut actually researching the issues most affecting Canada'a

Aboriginal people.

Is there going to be more action at Ipperwash?" a representative of

Canda' broadcasting giant asked.

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Summer approaches and anyone who is a student of Native current affairs

can hear the rumblings beginning to sound. It is going to to another

long, intense summer in Indian Counry.

A phone call from a CBC news progam to Windspeaker this last month got

us shaking our heads. CBC often picks Windspeaker's collective brain

to short-cut actually researching the issues most affecting Canada'a

Aboriginal people.

Is there going to be more action at Ipperwash?" a representative of

Canda' broadcasting giant asked.

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Slated for June 13 to 16 in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North

Carolina, the seventh annual Indigenous Environment Network Protecting

Mother Earth Conference will be held within the reservation boundaries

of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The natural setting near the

famous Blue Ridge Parkway belies the concern the Eastern Cherokee

Defense League and other activists have about the effects of toxic

chemicals such as dioxin on the environment and the people who live

there.

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Slated for June 13 to 16 in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North

Carolina, the seventh annual Indigenous Environment Network Protecting

Mother Earth Conference will be held within the reservation boundaries

of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The natural setting near the

famous Blue Ridge Parkway belies the concern the Eastern Cherokee

Defense League and other activists have about the effects of toxic

chemicals such as dioxin on the environment and the people who live

there.

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Slated for June 13 to 16 in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North

Carolina, the seventh annual Indigenous Environment Network Protecting

Mother Earth Conference will be held within the reservation boundaries

of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The natural setting near the

famous Blue Ridge Parkway belies the concern the Eastern Cherokee

Defense League and other activists have about the effects of toxic

chemicals such as dioxin on the environment and the people who live

there.

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The federal government is giving First Nations more control over

frienship centres across Canada, but no extra money to help them

shoulder the added responsibility.

The Ottawa-based national Association of Friendship Centres took over

management of 99 federally-funded friendship centres from the Canadian

Heritage Ministry on April 1.

Heritage minster Sheila Copps will still be the top bureaucrat in

charge of the program, and her minstry will continue to fund it, but the

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An attempt at a class-action lawsuit againt Ottawa's Aboriginal fishing

strategy is just another futile attempt by British Columbia's non-Native

commercial fishmen, said a Vancouver chief.

"It's just the same old crap," says Musqueam chief Joe Becker, who is

also the band's fisheries advisor.

"They've intervened in every lawsuit over the years and they've never

won one of them."

Faced with having their fleets cut by 50 per cent this year, West coast

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An attempt at a class-action lawsuit againt Ottawa's Aboriginal fishing

strategy is just another futile attempt by British Columbia's non-Native

commercial fishmen, said a Vancouver chief.

"It's just the same old crap," says Musqueam chief Joe Becker, who is

also the band's fisheries advisor.

"They've intervened in every lawsuit over the years and they've never

won one of them."

Faced with having their fleets cut by 50 per cent this year, West coast

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An attempt at a class-action lawsuit againt Ottawa's Aboriginal fishing

strategy is just another futile attempt by British Columbia's non-Native

commercial fishmen, said a Vancouver chief.

"It's just the same old crap," says Musqueam chief Joe Becker, who is

also the band's fisheries advisor.

"They've intervened in every lawsuit over the years and they've never

won one of them."

Faced with having their fleets cut by 50 per cent this year, West coast

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On April 9, just outside courtroom N at Toronto's Old City Hall, about

20 people gathered during a court recess. The mood was surprisingly

upbeat, even though it was the third long day of hearings for nine

people charged with trespassing at the British and Dutch consulates in

Toronto.

By the end of the day, the defendants would be cleared of all charges

and impressed that Judge Robert Phillips permitted the case to carry

over for as long as it did.

"I thought this was going to take a day," said Lorraine Land, a