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Friends of the Oldman River are taking their message to the public with a door to door campaign.

About 3,000 newspapers describing the issues surrounding the project have been distributed in Edmonton by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. Another 7,000 are going to Calgary homes.

The newspaper says off-stream storage and water conservation could deliver the same amount of water as the dam would but at half the cost and minimal environmental damage.

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An investigation has been launched into accusations that Olympic security police made racist remarks and shoved Lubicon Lake demonstrators last weekend. The investigation was prompted by a letter from the Calgary Committee Against Racism (CCAR) and "is being treated as a legitimate complaint," said Doug Green, Deputy Chief Olympic security co-ordinator.

The behaviour of the crowd and undercover police "was just a taste for us of what Native people have had to put up with four hundreds of years," said Elli Jilek, CCAR member.

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The Alberta Court of Appeal will hear from three Mohawk Indian councils in their appeal against the Glenbow museum to have a sacred false face mask returned. They are asking the court to overturn a decision by the Court of Queen's Bench that returned a mask to the Calgary Museum's Olympic exhibit said Chief Bud Morris of the Kahnawake Council.

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The audience at the Austrian Olympic Club got quite a surprise here when world famous rock group, Opus, announced they support the Lubicon Lake Indian band and dedicated a song to the Lubicons.

In a Feb. 13 press conference with the Native media shortly before the show, the all-Austrian band told Windspeaker that they had heard about the Lubicon band's land claim in Austria and wanted to show support for the Lubicons during their concert on the opening day of the Olympics.

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Lubicon supporters withstand pestering crowds

They had been there since 6 a.m. huddled tightly together holding their banners and placard high above their heads. They come to Calgary from all over Canada to unite in a show of support for the Lubicon Lake Indian band's land claim and boycott of the Calgary Winter Olympic Games.

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Canadian and American Native groups have signed a treaty to protect and manage polar bears along the border region of the Beaufort Sea.

The treaty means that American Inupiat hunters from Alaska will keep strict quotas and hunting seasons on the bears which they share with the Canadian Inuvialuit.

To avoid lengthy negotiations with American and Canadian governments, the Native groups worked together on the agreement which will limit bear hunts based on population estimates.

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Pine Ridge, S.D.

The great Sioux nation has named its first war chief in more than a century and charged him with leading the battle to recover the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota.

Philip Stevens, 59, is the great-grandson of Chief Standing Bear as well as the head of an engineering firm. He will now fight the American government, which the Sioux say, illegally confiscated the Black Hills 100 years ago.

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A controversial poster issued by the Yukon Human Rights Commission showing a young Native girl standing in front of a schoolhouse, her face fraught with despair, has outraged the Yukon Teachers Association.

The caption on the poster reads: Mommy Don't Leave Me Here.

The text of the poster continues: "Racism scours the depth of our souls and dredges up the most undesirable of emotions. Yet the fear, the poverty, and the hatred pale beside racism's true legacy: the destruction of human dignity and potential."

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George Erasmus, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, sent Prime Minister Mulroney a letter calling for Indian Affairs Minister McKnight's removal for showing a conflict of interest in his decision to provide a grant to a Japanese-owned paper company.

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A picture published in Windspeaker helped to locate a 12-year old boy who went missing in June of last year.

Joseph Osecap's picture, published in a special October 1987 crime prevention issue was noticed by a secretary at the Prince Charles school in Edmonton who recognized Osecap as a former student.

"I couldn't really believe it. I thought, gee, that's one of ours that went missing," says Iris Hogg about the young boy who was a student at the school from April to June.