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Charges will not be laid by RCMP against Kehewin parents Vernon Soloway and Lila McCarthy following an investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse of their children.

"They're denying all allegations and we certainly don't have the evidence to go on with any charges in court," Const. Rich Carter of Bonnyville RCMP told Windspeaker Wednesday.

The investigation was completed this week after RCMP arrested Soloway on unrelated charges and interviewed him and McCarthy, said Carter.

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Gordon Gadwa is back in the driver's seat at Kehewin Reserve.

The 44-year-old chief had been locked out of his office by six of eight band councillors who voted Aug. 17 to oust him. They then appointed Gloria Badger as acting band chief.

Gadwa, who has been chief of the east-central Alberta reserve for the last decade, met with the group of multinous band councillors in late September and threatened legal action.

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One Indian has been fired on and tension is mounting in a conflict between ranchers and traditional Indian hunters near a small Indian reserve in southern Alberta.

The Natives claim some ranchers are waging war against them because of a July 17 provincial court ruling which allowed Eden Valley band member George Alexson unrestricted access to Crown land.

Provincial Court Judge John Robbins ruled Indian hunting rights are guaranteed in the Treaty of 1877.

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While other Metis were moving away from Wolf Lake Metis Settlement "like flies," Isadore Cardinal was holding his ground.

Twenty-nine years after the former colony had its status as a settlement rescinded in 1960, he's still there.

And he'll probably die there, he said.

Raised in the bush in and around the northeastern Alberta community, the 69 year old Cardinal is the last of the settlement members still living within the boundaries of the former Metis colony.

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As a white woman with treaty rights, Sharon Steinhauer says she's been able to build bridges between Natives and non-Natives.

"I believe in the universality of mankind. The differences between us are minimal and the commonalties between us are great and I wonder on the folly of man to concentrate on the differences,"

says the 42 year old woman.

"We all want the same kinds of successes in life," she notes.

By having links to both communities, she believes she's able to shape attitudes in the Native and non-Native world.

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Alberta will not have a treaty Indian running for October's upcoming Senate election.

Harvey Cardinal's bid to be the first Treaty Indian to run in a Senate election has fizzled.

The Medicine Hat resident failed to the 1,500 signatures required to run in the election, which is being held Oct. 16 at the same time as province-wide municipal elections.

He estimated he was short by 300 names.

Seven other candidates were declared eligible to run but the race narrowed to six on Sept. 27 when Ivor Dent announced he was dropping out.

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It was called the greatest form of communication by Native people since the smoke signal.

And when the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) took to the airwaves Sept. 22, beaming its radio show via satellite from its Edmonton headquarters, AMMSA president Fred

Didzena said it opened a new era of progress for Native people.

Didzena told a packed house of spectators and staff during the openhouse gala that AMMSA waited five years to sent its message using the high-tech communications system.

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Tansi, ahnee and hello.

There was once a man who sought healing. This young man looked back on the actions of his life with great sadness and with great shame.

He was a warrior. Despite the honors that had been heaped upon him by his people the young warrior felt great dissatisfaction.

Somehow he sensed that there was more. Something inside him told him that there were other roads for him to travel.

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The federal government has committed itself to long-term support for aboriginal and economic development, says the administrator for the Canadian Aboriginal Economic Development Strategy.

Tony Reynolds, administrator for the program, told 300 delegates at the 1989 Working Conference on Indian Economic Development that an allocation of $874 million for the first five years is the

first time a long-term commitment has been included in the federal government's budget.

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Blood Chief Roy Fox says his tribe has had a long, tough battle to get an on-reserve irrigation project underway, but it will pay off.

"Water and land have been a sacred trust to our people since time began. The creator has given these resources to us and we are responsible to endure we look after them and use them to the best

advantage. In modern times we may have lost sight of that sacred relationship," he said in an address at the Indian economic development conference held in Edmonton last week.