Benefit for Lubicon land claim

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A protest concert called the "Last Stand of the Lubicon Lake Indian Band" featuring well-known Native activist and singer Buffy Saint Marie will take place in Calgary this fall.

The concert is being organized by the Committee Against Racism (CAR), a Calgary-based organization which has been a support group of the Lubicon Lake Band during its long land claim dispute with the government. The Lubicon Lake Indian Band has called for a boycott of the Glenbow Museum's Native artifact exhibition the "Spirit Sings" and the Calgary Olympic Games in support of its outstanding land claim.

"We are organizing the concert not to make money but to raise the profile of the Lubicon Lake people. All proceeds from the concert will go to the band," says Rosemary Brown who confesses that neither she nor her organization has ever organized a concert of this magnitude.

Brown was in Edmonton Tuesday to organize a poster featuring Cree syllabics written by Dr. Anne Anderson. The poster will be available in late August says Brown.

The concert will take place at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary October 23.