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Despite a strict injunction granted to Peigan chief and council blocking Peigan Nation members from protesting the construction of an RCMP building in Brocket, the general population endorsed Chief Peter Strikes With A Gun in tribal elections held Nov. 30.

Strikes With A Gun was returned for his third term as chief, only two months after successfully obtaining an injunction from a Calgary court that forbade any member from gathering at the construction site.

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Despite a strict injunction granted to Peigan chief and council blocking Peigan Nation members from protesting the construction of an RCMP building in Brocket, the general population endorsed Chief Peter Strikes With A Gun in tribal elections held Nov. 30.

Strikes With A Gun was returned for his third term as chief, only two months after successfully obtaining an injunction from a Calgary court that forbade any member from gathering at the construction site.

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More than 220 chiefs, treaty negotiators, spectators and media members jammed into the Hyatt Regency?s ballroom in downtown Vancouver on Dec. 11 to witness the formal Nuu-chah-nulth treaty offer exchange.

British Columbia?s Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, David Zirnhelt, billed the government?s offer as the largest in the province?s treaty-making history, the event also marked the first time the province, First Nations and Canada have exchanged offers, rather than the province and Canada simply presenting their side of an offer.

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More than 220 chiefs, treaty negotiators, spectators and media members jammed into the Hyatt Regency?s ballroom in downtown Vancouver on Dec. 11 to witness the formal Nuu-chah-nulth treaty offer exchange.

British Columbia?s Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, David Zirnhelt, billed the government?s offer as the largest in the province?s treaty-making history, the event also marked the first time the province, First Nations and Canada have exchanged offers, rather than the province and Canada simply presenting their side of an offer.

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On a sunny Saturday afternoon, representatives from the federal government came to Nuu-chah-nulth territory to offer an apology from Canada for the horrors the Nuu-chah-nulth people experienced at government- and church-operated residential schools.

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On a sunny Saturday afternoon, representatives from the federal government came to Nuu-chah-nulth territory to offer an apology from Canada for the horrors the Nuu-chah-nulth people experienced at government- and church-operated residential schools.

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Writers and children?s advocates Melanie Mark and Cherry Kingsley have completed a remarkable study on commercial sexual exploitation of Canadian Aboriginal children and youth in 22 communities. Their report, Sacred Lives, documents five months of meetings that gave a voice to youth on all issues arising out of the sex trade, including abuse, exploitation, prevention, healing, exiting, public attitudes, crisis intervention, harm reduction, and especially youth participation.

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Writers and children?s advocates Melanie Mark and Cherry Kingsley have completed a remarkable study on commercial sexual exploitation of Canadian Aboriginal children and youth in 22 communities. Their report, Sacred Lives, documents five months of meetings that gave a voice to youth on all issues arising out of the sex trade, including abuse, exploitation, prevention, healing, exiting, public attitudes, crisis intervention, harm reduction, and especially youth participation.

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The File Hills Qu?Appelle Tribal Council has a new weapon to battle the child sex trade.

At a release party Dec. 8 in Regina, the tribal council and Birdsong Productions, a Regina-based film and video production company, introduced Lives Worth Living, a video designed to be shown to school children to warn them about the dangers of becoming prostitutes, and to give them help and support to get out of the illegal trade.

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The File Hills Qu?Appelle Tribal Council has a new weapon to battle the child sex trade.

At a release party Dec. 8 in Regina, the tribal council and Birdsong Productions, a Regina-based film and video production company, introduced Lives Worth Living, a video designed to be shown to school children to warn them about the dangers of becoming prostitutes, and to give them help and support to get out of the illegal trade.