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Blyan has questions for Hardy at face to face meeting in Edmonton

About 50 members of the Metis Settlement Members Coalition headed by chairman Joe Blyan addressed the annual meeting of the Federation of Metis Settlements in Edmonton Dec. 11.

In a speech to the assembled councils of the eight Metis settlements, Blyan said he and his fellow settlement members were concerned over problems on the settlements and particularly with the Buffalo Lake (Caslan) settlement.

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The Blood Indian band located at Standoff in southern Alberta has endorsed the Lubicon Lake band's boycott of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games.

The band is the second southern band to back the Lubicons, offering support to the small Cree band just two weeks after the Peigan band joined the boycott.

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Jurisdiction for Aboriginal languages must be given to the Secretary of State, not the Department of Indian Affairs, according to a position paper to be submitted to the Assembly of First Nations language conference scheduled for next month.

The associate director of Dr. Anne Anderson's Native Heritage and Cree Culture Centre, Buff Parry and Aaron Minoose will be submitting their position paper which has had input from Anderson, calling for a heritage language institute ? sections of which would be located in Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal.

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An effort, spearheaded by Kapown Centre ? an addictions treatment centre operated by the Grouard Indian band, is being extended for the establishment and development of a Woodland Cree Interpretive Centre and anthropological field station at Grouard.

Kapown Centre's Verna Neville says that Grouard band chief Frank Halcrow "has donated suitable land for such a centre and would like advice and assistance of local, community, regional, governmental, and interested agencies in achieving the plan."

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Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak welcomed support from both Native and non-Native students at the University of Alberta during an information meeting on campus Dec. 12.

"It's always encouraging to see people who are prepared to try and assist and support us any way possible. That's been our only source of power in trying to deal with the opposition which is tremendous . . . and I think that's the only reason why we've been able to hang on this long," he said.

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A former trapper, logger and firefighter has been elected chief of the 369 member Chipewyan band at For Chipewyan.

Pat Marcel, 49 and a father of five, was elected at the Dec. 9 election which also saw former chief Archie Cyprien and band member Patricia Lepine elected to council. The third councillor will be elected in a January by-election due to a tie between Charlie Voyageur and Wilfred Marcel.

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Hopi legends and their ancient prophecies have recently been gaining attention, particularly as many of the prophecies appear to be coming true.

Interest in the prophecies arose in North America recently with the well publicized "harmonic conversation" ceremonies which took place all across the continent. This ceremony has its roots in the ancient Aztec calendar which came to an end, after 5,000 years, this year. The Hopi, who are related to the Aztecs, also say this means the end of the fourth work has begun and the fifth world is slowly being created.

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Indians have long been associated with a particular type of music, either country and western, traditional powwow music. But there is an Indian who is trying to change that stereotype.

John Kim Bell is a Mohawk Indian from the Caughnawaga reserve, east of Montreal. He is also an internationally known and respected symphony conductor, the president and founder of the Canadian Native Arts Foundation, and the newest figure on the National Native Role Model program.

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Being artistically talented can have its rewards, especially once your art work is accepted, admired and purchased. For many artists, however, it is that final quality, being purchased, that prevents them from actively pursuing an art career. And such is the case for Adrian Yellow Old Woman, a Blackfoot now living in Calgary.

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Being deprived of the opportunity to practice and enjoy the rich culture in which she was born had a remarkable effect on Maggie Black Kettle, a Blackfoot Elder living in Calgary.

Instead of forgetting the ways of her heritage, which would have been the easy course to take, Black Kettle pursued her culture to a proficiency that allows her to teach it to the students at the Plains Indian Cultural Survival School (PICSS) in Calgary.