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Brandon Nolan's father Ted made it to the National Hockey League, first as a player then as a coach. And no doubt the 17-year-old would love to follow in his father's footsteps and play professionally one day.

For now, Brandon Nolan is learning the ins and outs of the Ontario Hockey League, where he's a rookie forward with the Oshawa Generals. Nolan was selected by the Generals in the first round, 12th overall, during the 1999 OHL bantam draft. Players chosen in that draft were considered underage and were not eligible to compete in the OHL last season.

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The great-grand niece of the Metis people's greatest leader publicly chastised a representative of the government of Ontario during a ceremony on Nov. 16 commemorating the achievements of Louis Riel.

Jean Teillet, renowned Aboriginal lawyer, declared the MPP for Dufferin-Peel's comments "shockingly inappropriate."

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It was a long wait but the Manitoba Treaty Land Entitlement Framework Agreement finally received royal assent Oct. 20. The legislation to see land reach reserve status faster was signed May 29, 1997, between the Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) Committee of Manitoba and the province.

The bill will set aside 1.1 million acres of land for 20 First Nations that have outstanding land claims with the federal government.

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Garrett Campiou, also a member of the Chalifoux, Dumont and Lefthand families, died at 10:43 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15. For 12 days the strapping 14-year-old Cree boy had been in hospital on life support following a severe and brutal beating on Nov. 3.

His life ebbed as he was removed from life support. One of his three grandmothers sang a Cree death song she had learned from her grandparents, as family members and friends gathered to say their goodbyes.

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Plans are in the works for an organizational meeting that could be the first step in the creation of a national grassroots organization of former residential school students.

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As Salt River First Nation moves close to cementing its treaty land entitlement deal with the federal and territorial governments, it may mean economic growth and self-determination for one group of the region's Native people while it marginalizes their Metis cousins.

Once Salt River gets its reserve, the Metis may be in the position of depending on the generosity of those who run it, so far as traditional hunting and trapping activities are concerned, according to some Metis who live there.

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The Gitxsan chiefs are going back to court to challenge elements of the landmark Supreme Court of Canada Degamuukw decision.

They will argue the decision violates the constitution by allowing Aboriginal rights to be infringed upon.

"Delgamuukw made certain pronouncements. It did say that there were unextinguished Aboriginal rights," said Gitxsan chief negotiator, Gary Patsey. "And it gave permission for the crown to infringe on those rights."

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In Oklahoma and Arizona, direct attacks are being made upon the use and teaching of American (Indian) tongues and such languages as Spanish, while lobbying is taking place to amend the United States constitution to make English the only legal language for government purposes. Some argue that this campaign is a part of the anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiment being popularized by some racist politicians, but it also reflects the century-old animosity of some Anglo-North Americans towards Native Americans and all brown-skinned peoples.

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