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A professional carpenter for the past 15 years, Herb Nelson looks at the House of Huu-ay-aht, the first bighouse constructed in Huu-ay-aht territory in more than 100 years, as one of his crowning achievements.

Adopted out as an infant, Nelson only recently discovered his Huu-ay-aht ancestry and has returned to Anacla, B.C. to work on the mountain-top structure that will serve as bighouse, gymnasium and community centre for Huu-ay-aht.

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Alex Little Bear is disturbed by the slow response from Indian Affairs in dealing with his people's specific land claim. In the meantime, he and 20 descendants of Chief Big Bear who signed Treaty 6 will continue to occupy a section of Crown land 30 miles southeast of North Battleford they says belongs to them. The land is currently leased to somebody else.

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A few days after his remarks appeared in print, Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin appeared on CBC-TV's The Journal to talk about his comments.

"I despair. I have a great feeling of personal frustration . . . when I hear upon waking in the morning that there's been another suicide, or another tragedy of some sort in an Aboriginal community.

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Born into Mistawasis First Nation in 1976, Lorne Horse Duquette grew up street-wise and nomadic, moving from city to reserve and back again, serving time in residential school as a child and prison as a teenager.

He is a young man whose life journey has taken him from a boyhood spent in the wilds of Saskatchewan to the bright lights of Montreal, and then national exposure as an actor in Big Bear, the CBC television film.

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Frank Dreaver and Leonard Peltier have an extraordinary working relationship. Their destinies are bound together in a sacred trust, tied to a moral, spiritual duty that has become a life mission for one man seeking the freedom of the other.

Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement activist, political prisoner and victim of Canada's most controversial extradition, has been behind bars in an American prison for 24 years.

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In a surprisingly swift decision, the United States parole examiner has crushed the latest hope for freedom for Leonard Peltier, recommending that Peltier's sentence be continued until his next full parole hearing in 2008.

The recommendation came during an interim parole hearing held for Peltier June 12 at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas.

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Exercising the right to free speech almost cost the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs a half million dollars last month.

The provincial government cut the First Nations organization's funding by that amount ($250,000 in each of the next two years) because UBCIC President Stewart Phillip spoke out against the British Columbia Treaty Commission process and in favor of a political demonstration by the Cheam First Nation in south-central British Columbia.

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The Warrior Society flag now flies where the Canadian flag used to wave above the guardhouse at the main gate of the former CFB Ipperwash and, since 1993, it's been a kind of no-man's-land in the cold war between traditional Pottawami protesters and Canadian authorities.

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Anger and resentment were still the dominant emotions at Camp Ipperwash just days after the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of Warren George.

The 27-year-old began his six-month jail sentence on May 18 in Sarnia's maximum security facility before being transferred to Guelph's medium security Wellington County facility on May 31.

George was charged with criminal negligence in the operation of a motor vehicle and assault with a weapon (motor vehicle).

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Dear Editor:

I am in strict agreement with this [Taiaiake Alfred's] views and beliefs [regarding Time to kill the treaty process]. I find all the talk about treaty negotiations frightening and, sure as God made little green apples, we are going to get shafted again. It is definitely another stab at assimilation.