Lubicons 'clean house'

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Since the breakdown of negotiations between the federal government officials and Lubicon Lake representatives mid-January over the Natives' land claim, the Lubicons have been cleaning house and working on technical agreements with the province of Alberta.

Lubicon negotiator Fred Lennarson said, "What we are doing is that we are getting the people who are concerned about this (situation) the information they need s they can actively support us.

"In the meantime, we are trying to tidy things up with the province in terms of access questions, substitute leases and water rights," he said, "all the technical matters which must be resolved. When all of our troops are properly supplied and in a position to actually do something, then the Lubicon people will be in a position to take action."

Lennarson would not elaborate on what kind of action or when they would take place and would only say, "I can't pre-judge that but I know things are being considered" and hinge,

in part, on how negotiations proceed with the province.