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Ovide Missing from Business Session Send Rr Ch Iue O Noney Order in T Am( Nt of ?8 (G.S.T QUOTABLE QUOTE "We need to be responsible to our own, responsible to our Native children." Katherine Broadhead, Native social worker July 18 - 31, 1994 Canada's News Volume 12 No. 9 sl July National Aboriginal Publication .00 plus G.S.T. where applicable Mercredi wins chief's job barely By Debora Lockyer Saskatoon Place. If Mercredi Windspeaker Staff Writer didn't take it on the first ballot, he wouldn't takeitatall,thought many chiefs. SASKATOON Home town favorite Delia Opekokew of Canoe Lake, Sask. Itwasri t theeasiestwonelec - pressed palms in an attempt to tion battle in history by any expand her support, which means. The60 percentvoter sup- seemed limited to some Sas- portneeded to name the national katchewan chiefs. Konrad Sioui chief of the Assembly of First of Huron -Wyandot Nation had Nations seemed elusive, much all but conceded the race. He to the frustration of incumbent was rumored to have made a Ovide Mercredi. pactwith Opekokew forhis sup- By the first ballot he had al- port. most conquered the benchmark There were 458 votes to be with 54 per cent support and by had, 105 in B.C. alone. The B.C. the end of the third ballot had caucus had determined to vote only just surpassed it with 60.8 as a block for Mercredi, but some per cent. renegades, such as Erling But a win is a win is a win, Christensen, who had the proxy and the 49- year -old Cree from vote for Lheit- Lit'en of Prince Manitoba captured his second George, were j us t as determined consecutive term of office dur- to block the block and vote for ing the early hours of July 7. anyone but the incumbent. Despite a determined effort by The 69 chiefs in Saskatch- four challengers to block his ewan would be split on the first way, the slim margin of support ballot but ultimately would vote was enough to place Mercredi as a block for Mercredi, said Debora Lockyer in the seat of power for another Chief Roland Crowe of the Fed- three years. eration of Saskatchewan Indian The AFN election for na- Nations. Victory at last, but it hadn't quite sunk in for Ovide Mercredi when he heard the results of the tional chief began at approxi- Although there had been third ballot at the Assembly of First Nations election in Saskatoon. It was a long, hard battle and mately 9:30 a.m. July 6. Specula- some feeling Mercredi was out wife Shelley Bu hay shed a few tears of joy while daughter Danielle stood by her father's side. tion on the outcome ran ram- Mil-- pant through the auditorium of See Grassroots, Page 3 To receive Windspeaker in your mai Tx e y iw veeks, just Ovide missing from business session send rr ch iue o noney order in t am( nt of ?8 (G.S.T. By Debora Lockyer chief Ovide Mercredi. where no -show Mercredi was cessful. irn ded¡ x Windspeaker Staff Writer Dene Nation Grand Chief hiding. "You often hear said 'Well, Bill Erasmus was angered by "I him to sit there it the NIN SPE (ER want up we're doing white man's Mercredi's absence. and listen," Coon -Come said. way again.' That's go- I. 101 12 . 'ENUE always SASKATOON "Where is Ovide?" But ED 1ON ON,. LBERTA asked other chiefs were more ing to keep coming up. You Erasmus. "We're here talking to forgiving of the national chief, have to have the Aboriginal way 1 N12 The election of a leader was ourselves. They said Ovide will including Chief Alan Ross of of doing First Nations busi- NAP :. all the business some chiefs change. Well, he hasn't." Norway House in Manitoba. ness." were prepared to do at the As- Erasmus said the 21 resolu- "I am a little disappointed A major overhaul of the sembly of First Nations' con- tions were already drafted and that he's not here, but I also AFN has to occur because the vention July 5 -7. Their lack of many more would have been have to respect the fact he is proc- ADC .ES` that structure strangling the interest in a session where 21 put forward if debate had been is a high -profile leader and that ess, said Ross. policy resolutions were set to allowed. he has obligations. Although "The Indian perspective, the be discussed led to an early end "We're not impressed. On his first obligation is to us, I First Nation perspective, the CIT to the three -day assembly. first appearance it looks like he respect that he has to address First Nation agenda has to } Whereas many as 460 chiefs came here to get what he the concerns of the media," Ross brought forward. There has to gathered earlier that day to elect wanted, which was to get re- said, referring to a number of be a better way of doing busi- POS 'AL' 1113;__ a national chief, only 130 elected, and then forgot the peo- interviews Mercredi had given ness," Ross said. showed up for the business end ple." This session is where the that morning. The resolutions which were of the proceedings. Without a chiefs give direction to the na- Those who did attend the not attended to at the conven- $10 charge on all quorum, a large enough group tional chief before the next as- session were frustrated by the tion referred to issues such as NSF Cheques to officially form a decision - sembly, Erasmus said. rules guiding the assembly, free border crossing, gaming on $40 for all subscriptions making body, the resolutions Erasmus was not alone in which suppressed debate and reserves, unsolved murders, outside Canada couldn't be formally discussed. this condemnation of Mercredi. held back the Native agenda, suicide and social issues and Among the most notable Matthew Coon -Come, the high - including defeated candidate the right to health. All were July 18/94 members of the assembly miss- profile environmentalist and Wally McKay. McKay said weighty issues and many ing from the resolutions meet- grand chief of the James Bay meshing European and Native needed immediate response, J ing PUBLICATION MAIL REGISTRATION #2177 was newly elected national Cree, also asked the assembly processes would never be suc- said Ross. PAGE 2, JULY 18 - JULY 31, 1994, WINDSPEAKER News WHAT'S INSIDE Government ignoring claims commission Arts & Entertainment By Linda Caldwell northeast of Edmonton. Young Chipeewayan this 9 Windspeaker Staff Writer The communities were vir- month. tually destroyed by the loss of The commission, whichhad their traditional livelihoods. In an operating budget of $5 mil- Business 8 CALGARY 1975 and again in 1986, the lion in 1993 -94, was established bands submitted land claims to on July 15, 1991, in the wake of The Indian Claims Commis- the federal government. Both the Oka crisis. Commissioners Careers 10,11 sion's first annual report in- were rejected because Ottawa spent the first year in discus- cludes a list of six recommenda- said there was no "outstanding sions with the Assembly of First tions for the federal government lawful obligation" and that the Nations to determine the com- Sports. R4,5,6 to help speed up the process for treaty permitted the govern- missions mandate. the settlement of specific claims. ment to take the land for settle- Since July of 1992, besides So far the government has ment. completing five inquiries, it has Your Opinion 5 not made any formal response When the commission sub- started investigating 12 more to any of the five inquiries into Jim Prentice mitted its report to then- Minis- claims, has accepted 11 for fu- disputed land claims the com- ter of Indian Affairs Pauline hire inquiries, is actively medi- BUILDING HOUSES mission has concluded, said co- Following an inquiry into Browes in October 1993, she said ating another 10 claims and chair Jim Prentice. claims made by Cold Lake First the commission could expect a helped another 14 claims get Reserve residents may "There is frustration on the Nation in Alberta and Canoe formal response in two to three back to the negotiating table, Lake First Nation in Saskatch- months. Prentice said. soon be able to get a part of some of the commission- ers," said Prentice. "In terms of ?wan, the commission con- The report on the Athabasca Despite his disappointment mortgage to build a tangible results, one of the is- cluded Ottawa breached its Denesuline Inquiry, which af- at the lack of government re- home, if a pilot project sues which is out there is that at treaty and fiduciary obligations fects three First Nations, was sponse to the commission's launched on this point, the government has by forbidding each band from completed in December 1993 but work, Prentice is convinced the Kahnawake is suc- not responded to the recommen- hunting on traditional lands. the government has not re- group is doing valuable work. dations put before them. Thoselands,abruptlyappropri- sponded. "I think the commission has cessful. Six applica- "We are at the stage where ated in 1954, now comprise the Two more inquiries have shown an independentcommis- tions are in the works we are clearly saying: 'It's time Primrose Lake Air Weapons been completed, the Lax sion such as this is essential and now, but another 100 to respond'." Range, approximately 300 km Kw'alaams in June 94 and the that it can work," he said. are expected in the next two months. See Page 8. Kahnawake pans casino proposal OLD CROW CHRONICLED By Debora Lockyer cannot raise the issue any more, Windspeaker Staff Writer and I'm not going to speak to The life and times of a "I along with the council cannot the issue anymore.
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