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Volume 12 No. I March 28 - April 10, 1994 Canada's National Aboriginal News Publication $1.00 plus G S.T. where applicable Financial bungling plaguing Metis

By D.B. Smith member organizations such as Windspeaker Staff Writer the Metis Nation of Saskatch- ewan, the Metis Nation of Al- berta and the Manitoba Metis OTTAWA Federation, but were never re- claimed. A recent federal audit of the A Canadian Heritage Metis National Council suggests spokesman gave little detail on that organization is plagued by the department's reaction to the a severe deficit, poor record - audit. Azhar Alikhan said the keeping and rampant financial document was only a draft ver- mismanagement. sion. Justice department officials The draft audit report by of- said the report was a private ficials from the departments of government document and re- Justice and Canadian Heritage, fused to comment. which was leaked to The draf tdocument also sug- Windspeaker earlier this month, gested: suggested large discrepancies in Some disbursements re- the council's spending, includ- corded against the constitutional inga $307,000 deficit in the 1993/ program, up to $244,427, were 94 core budget. also related to activities such as The audit, which was car- the council's core budget and ried out in the last two weeks of the annual meeting in Vancou- February, also outlined expen- ver. ditures by council board mem- More than $340,000 of $3.3 bers which federal officials did million allocated for constitu- not consider legitimate business tional programs in 1993 was expenses. unaccounted for. And the Among those costs were a whereabouts of $131,000 from Terry Lusty $15,000 contract "buyout" of a the council's $2.2 million consti- constitutional consultant, tutional budget for 1992 have $35,000 to cover "personal mis- yet to be confirmed. Cranial competitors cellaneous" costs for seven board A combined surplus of directors and $425 to hire a lim- more than $255,000 was gar- Peter Walsh and Gus Jules, both from the Yukon, go head -to -head in the head pull ousine for the late Metis Nation nered by provincial Metis as- competition at the Arctic Games in Slave Lake, Alta. The games wrapped up under of Alberta president Larry sociations in 1992 and the mon- slushy conditions that fortunately didn't hamper any of the athletic events or festivities.. Desmeules' funeral. ies have not yet been reim- For more games coverage, see Pages R4 & 5. The document suggests bursed. large surpluses were paid out to See Discrepancies, Page 9.

To receive Windspeaker in your, Indian Affairs wind -down set for Manitoba mailbox every two weeks, just or money order send your cheque By D.B. Smith self-government exists." in the amount of $28 (G.S.T. Windspeaker Staff Writer The province's 61 bands now cent of fed- "The minister has made clear his deliver about 80 per eral programs, Fontaine said. But OTTAWA government's commitment to get there's a big difference between IUE rid of an archaic institution." managing federal initiatives and ED ERTA Ottawa will begin to wind - Phil Fontaine, Grand taking control over programs and the department of Indian Affairs Chief, Assembly of Manitoba the money that supports them. down starting in Manitoba, fed- Chiefs Such control would eventu- NAN eral Indian Affairs Minister Ron ally lead to making and enforc- Irwin said. ing Native laws, he said. In yet another surprise an- But thedismantlingwill have nouncement about Native self- em Manitoba Native community allow local people to deliver lo- to be carefully monitored, given ADD goverment,theministertold the of Lynn Lake. cal services. the amount of money allocated House of Commons that Ottawa "I have seen the houses," "It's what we call self-gov- to Indian Affairs, Irvin said. The would be taking the advice of Irwin responded. "They are fire- ernment. Let them run their own department's budget for this year CITY Native leaders in Manitoba by traps. I have seen the lack of eco- affairs and the more they run alone was more than $5 billion, letting that province lead in the nomic opportunity. At the same their own affairs, the less bu- including $1 billion in direct dismantling of Indian Affairs. time, I have seen successful busi- reaucrats we need in Ottawa." transfers to the two territorial POSI It is time, Irwin said, to bring nesses, Aboriginal doctors, Abo- Assemblyof Manitoba Chiefs governments. "dignity, self-reliance, self -gov- riginal lawyers, Aboriginal teach- Grand Chief Phi l Fontaine hailed A gradual shutdown would ernmenttoa peoplewhoareheld, ers and great Aboriginal leaders. the announcement as a neces- be essential if Natives and the not necessarily in londage, They are saying one thing to us: sary first step towards imple- provinces are to reach proper $1 l but certainly as supplicants under That we should dismantle the menting self-government. funding agreements, he said. an archaic (Indian) act." Department of Indian Affairs." "This is cause for optimism. Manitoba's minister for $40 for all subscriptions Irwin was addressing the Manitoba would hopefully The minister has made clear his northern and Native affairs, outside Canada concerns of Liberal MP for serve as a model for the rest of government's commitment to get Darren Praznik, said he was con- Churchill Elijah Harper, over the the country, he said. rid of an archaic institution. This cerned the move might leave the L Mar 28/94 death of six children in a house Prime Mini ster Jean Chrétien government's position leaves no province holding the financial fire in the impoverished north- endorsed the plan as a means to doubt that the inherent right of bag. PUBUCATION MAIL REGISTRATION N2177 PAGE 2, MARCH 28 - APRIL 10, 1994, WINDSPEAKER News Roy Fox elected as Blood chief Arts & Entertainment....

8,11 By D.B. Smith "As acandidate,I havea right to look at the council members are scheduled to re- appear in Windspeaker Staff Writer spoiled ballots," he said. "I don't know if all the court March 29. spoiled ballots are mine, but a lot of people are "All of this will be brought in front of the saying 'there are a lot of spoiled ballots and a lot justice and she'll look at it and say 'Have they BLOOD RESERVE, Alta. of them are yours'." purged themselves of the contempt ?' And if The ballot count, which began when the this isn't settled, I wouldn't want to be in front A former chief of the Blood Band is asking polls closed at 8 p.m. Friday and went well into of her." for an election re -count after a vote held this Saturday afternoon, was done manually, Frank Neither Fox nor chief electoral officer month saw his rival elected chief. said.Unofficial results have Fox the victor with Francis Firstcharger could be reached for com- Drew Hayden Taylor...7 Reports of numerous electoral irregulari- 809 votes and Frank second with 610. ment on the results. ties, including sleeping ballot -counting offi- The vote followed a Feb. 16 order by Court But Frank was surprised at the number of cials and an undisclosed number of spoiled of Queen's Bench Justice Barbara Reed to allow incumbent councillors that made it back in. News...1,2,3,9, R1,2,3,7 ballots, require an examination of the March 18 Fox and council to purge itself of a guilty "That was a shock. But it was very well set vote, Harley Frank said. verdict over contempt charges stemming from up in terms of how they voted and supported Frank, who was forced out of office in an last November's byelection. each other and of course we were against a very Sports R4,5 illegal byelection that newly elected Chief Roy Council attempted to oust Frank after he large family base. The Frank family is just a Fox also won last November, said he heard used band funds to purchase a herd of buffalo drop in the Blood bucket." reports of exhausted ballot counters and sleep - the band government said it never approved. The Fox family is the largest extended fam- ingcount observers during the marathonballot Frank, Fox and the band's 12 councillors ily based on the reserve and it's common prac- A VITAL LINK count March 18. signed an agreement to hold the March 18 tice to vote for family members during band There are also rumors that a large number election. Frank was also to be reimbursed mon- elections, Frank said. Aboriginal radio stations of ballots were spoiled and that Frank's name ies owed to him by council. Many of the b and members missed the key serve as a vital link, unit- was on many of them, he said. Some estimates But Frank said he has yet to see any money issue in the election, he added. have put that number as high as 400. legal He and the other "The issue was change." ing communities and for back pay or costs. keeping Native peoples informed on issues that affect them. They also B.C. bands get say over timber resources help to cultures preserve By D.B. Smith vation of the forests in and around would only advise the government To that effect, the interim and languages, offering Windspeaker Staff Writer the sound, Tla- qui -o -aht Chief on development decisions. agreement established a co- opera- a venue that mainstream Francis Frank said. The council also wanted as- tive forest area which includes part radio never has. Chief among the Natives' con- surance that the provincial cabinet of the Clayoquot River Valley and AHOUSAHT, B.C. all land and could not veto any of the manage- Flores Island, where harvesting See Page 13. cerns was that use resource extraction in the sound ment board's directives. will be based on a total resource Natives on the west coast of first bejointly managed by the First "It's always been in the agree- plan. WATER Vancouver Island will finally have Nations and the province, he said. ment that cabinet could, but the The First Nations will co -man- CONTAMINATED a say in how local timber resources The council wanted the power to decision to refer to cabinet has to age all activities within the co -op- are managed. halt development if they chose. be agreed upon by the board as a erative region, and receive fund- A Manitoba band is out- The First Nations of the Nuu- "There's been wording added whole, and not so much that the ing to develop essential manage- raged over the negli- chah -nulth Tribal Council, which that reflects that the board is a cabinet can act on its own." ment skill. Funds were also set gence of a pulp mill op- represents five bands near Tofino, working board. I think the addi- As it now stands, cabinet will aside to explore alternative eco- eration that notified B.C., signed the Interim Measures tion in that particular clause that only be involved in development nomic development in the region, Agreement on Clayoquot Sound able to amend, decisions if the board decides to such as tourism. them four days after the board will be with the British Columbia govern- accept, approve or reject plans ... refer the matter, Frank added. Premier Mike Harcourt said toxic chemicals spilled ment March 19. is a little more definitive." Negotiations on the two -year the deal represented the province' s into the river upstream The agreement between the The exact wording of section deal were initiated last fall to avoid willingness to honor its commit- of the band's water sup- Ahousaht, Tla- qui- o -aht, 10 of the agreement first presented prejudicing land use decisions in ment to the First Nations. ply. Calls to lay charges Hesquiaht, Ucluelet and Toquaht last December had many Natives the face of upcoming comprehen- The deal could also be ex- FirstNations and theprovincewill It was sive land claim deals, B.C. Abo- tended beyond the two -year limit against the mill grow as on the council concerned. give Natives in the region a greater not clear if the First Nation /pro- riginal Affairs Minister John if it helps wrap up the treaty proc- federal health agencies say in the harvesting and conser- vincial joint management board Cashore said. ess. admit toxins may have leaked into the band's drinking water. Lonefighter convicted, sentencing postponed See Page R1. By Debbie Faulkner poned Born With a Tooth's sen- tested construction of the Oldm an Provincial Crown prosecutor Windspeaker Contributor tencing March 18 following his River Dam in southern Alberta. William Pinckey argued Gainer March 14convictionbased on two Those two shots weren't as was too late to ask for either a AD DEADLINES arguments made by defence law- serious as firearms incidents in- reduced sentence or a sentencing CALGARY yer Karen Gainer. volving bank robbery or at- circle. The Advertising Given the nature of his fire- tempted murder, Gainer said. "She can't make either appli- Instead ofbeingsentenced for arms offence, imprisonment was Fairer sentencing could also cation because of lack of notice," deadline for the his latest conviction on five weap- "cruel and unfair treatment" un- be handed out by a sentencing he said. All such applications must April 11th ons and obstruction charges, der the Canadi an Charter of Rights circle of Elders, she added. be made at least two weeks prior Lonefighter Milton Born With A and Freedoms, Gainer said. "A sentencing circle would to trial date, he explained. issue is Thursday, Tooth was released on bail - During a September 1990 con- be conducted by Elders who "Conviction was a surprise March 31, 1994 again. frontation with RCMP, Born With would make recommendations to to me," Gainer then told the court, Alberta Court of Queen's a Tooth fired two shots into the air the trial judge as to what the ap- referring to the guilty verdict her Bench Justice W. O'Leary post- as the Peigan Lonefighters pro- propriate sentence would be." client received a few days earlier. NATION IN BRIEF AFN leader must pay $30,000 to ex -wife dum. He said it is not his style to have a referendum every Commons the next day. Irwin insisted he never referred Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi time Canada is faced with a difficult situation. The sugges- to Chatters as a redneck. has been ordered to pay $30,000 in retroactive support to tion for the national vote came from Reform MP for his ex-wife for raising their three children. Ontario Su- Athabasca David Chatters who said he wants to see a clear Saulteaux agree to alternative funding preme Court Justice Moira Caswell chastised Mercredi definition of self- government before that policy is put into Chief of theSaulteauxFirstNationGabriel Gopher signed for the "woefully inadequate pittance" he had paid to play in Manitoba. Chrétien said, however, that tough ques- a five -year Alternative Funding Arrangement with In- Beryle Taylor when he could afford so much more. tions must be faced by government and that asking the dian Affairs March 14 which will see that band gain Mercredi, who has since remarried, earns $85,000 tax - people to decide a complicated issue that involves racial control of more than $19 million. The Saulteaux will also free as the national chief, plus benefits including two tensions is not the best way to go about it. take control of programs like elementary and secondary $4,000 vacations a year and a $100- per -day travel ex- education, social development, lands and trust services, pense. Taylor, a Grade 1 teacher in Orangeville, Ont., Reformers seeing red again on- reserve membership and registration and housing. earns about $64,000 but says she is in debt from raising Reform MP for Athabasca David Chatters stormed out of a their three children, two boys and a girl. She was origi- policy meeting with Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin Problems facing Natives most serious nally seeking a $135,000lumpsum payment, plus con- March 16 after Irwin insinuated the Reformer was a The problems facing the First Nations remain the most tinuing child support. Mercredi paid $250 a month in "redneck ". Irwin got into the heated exchange over the issue serious human rights conditions in Canada, the Cana- child support since Marc, 1980, and was often in arrears, of self -government, which Chatters said he wanted a better dian Human Rights Commission announced in its an- thejudge said. He increased payments to $1,950 a month definition of. Irwin insisted that the Liberal party's position nual report, released March 17. Chief Commissioner last April, about 16 months after Taylor took him to court. was clear enough in their policy document, the Red Book. Maxwell Yaldensaid the failure to find solutions can only Irwin then turned the attack on Chatters and said "I find we continue to tarnish Canada's reputation and accomplish - No referendum on self -government -PM have something in common ... and that's the color red. ments. Ottawa and the provinces need to find serviceable Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said he will likely not put Unfortunately, i t's my book and your neck". Chatters left the partnerships with the First Nations that will do justice to Native self- government to a vote in a national referen- meeting, but brought the incident up in the House of the elements of both Native and non -Native cultures. WINDSPEAKER, MARCH 28 - APRIL 10, 1994, PAGE 3 4.11111 News Supreme Court says yes Gitksan Wet'sewet'en to present land claim case

By D.B. Smith highest court follows last sum- "So what the courts said in their territory. The minority ml- Allan McEachern ruled the Windspeaker Staff Writer mer's decision by a five justice effect was that the province or the ing also recognized the Natives' Gitksan and Wet'suwet'ens' Abo- panel of the B.C. Court of Appeals feds didn't have the right to extin- rights to harvest, manage and con- riginal rights did not include own- which upheld the Natives' Abo- guish our rights. Therefore, our serve their lands and resources. ership. HAZELTON, B.C. riginal rights. rights existed. The only problem 'They were saying that we do In his view, the Natives' life All five justices ruled that the that the court had was the scope have a right to govern ourselves on the land without a written lan- Natives in northern British Gitksan and Wet'suwet'ens' rights and nature of our rights." but that that right was limited by guage, horses or the wheel was at Columbia will go to the top of the were not extinguished prior to re- The definition of those rights the constitution," George said. best "nasty, brutish and short." Canadian justice system in their patriation of the Constitution and included only hunting, fishing, The hereditary chiefs origi- Their rights to self- govern- bid to secure a long -standing land were in fact protected by thatdocu- 'berry- picking and Indian-danc- nally filed their land daim in 1984 ment did not exist, he concluded, daim. ment after 1982, Gitksan speaker ing- naked -in- the -woods and that and the hearing went to court in and their Aboriginal rights were TheSupremeCourtofCanada Herb George said. sort of thing," George said. 1987. limited to subsistence activities "at has agreed to hear the Gitksan and But a majority of three judges The appeal court ruling also After more than three years of the pleasure of the Crown." Wet'suwet'en land claim case defined the scope of those rights to denied their right to self- govern- testimony by the chiefs, who The Gitksan and sometime before the end of the include only traditional subsist- ment, although two of the justices claimed their oral history proved Wet'suwet'en have five months to year. ence activities and not commer- found the Natives had the right to ownership of the region, Chief prepare their case, a spokesman The move to the country's cial rights. occupy, possess, use and enjoy Justice of the B.C. Supreme Court for the Supreme Court said. Tour of Europe nets Innu to block hydro project

By D.B. Smith to the east, to generate an additional 820 megawatts. attention for Davis Inlet Windspeaker Staff Writer The coalition is also concerned that construction of an access road will open the region to mining and By D.B. Smith Goose Bay told British reporters forestry, said Pilot, one of the few English -speakers in Windspeaker Staff Writer the federal and Newfoundland SEPT -ILES, Que. the Innu community near Sept -Iles, 340 kilometres governments are still bickering east of Québec City. over who's responsible for mov- A band in eastern Quebec is planning to block- 'The opening up of lands from the new access EDMONTON ing the village 15 kilometres east ade the province's latest hydroelectric development. roads will forever separate us from our lands of to the new Sango Bay site. Innu from the small community ofMani - Utenam origin," Pilot said. A recent European tour to talk The Innu may be making an- are prepared to resist the construction of Sainte Ste. Marguerite III will be the 14th dam in with United Nations officials has othex presenta tion toe UN some- Marguerite III, which is scheduled to begin this Naassinan, an area of southeastern Quebec and south- garnered more international me- time in August, she said. spring, by mounting blockades, Coalition for western Labrador that the Innu claim as their tradi- dia attention for theMushuaulnnu The only unpleasantness of Nitassinan spokesman Gilbert Pilot said. tional homeland. of Davis Inlet. the overseas trip, she added, oc- Hydro Québec's two -phase $3- billion hydro- The project has also ripped two local Innu com- Five representatives from the curred in London when Irish Re- electric project on the Ste. Marguerite River will munities apart. A state of near-civil war has existed Innu Nation met with UN repre- publican Army terrorists began divert tributaries of three other rivers and endanger between the Innu of Mani -Utenam and the Innu of sentatives in Geneva in early lobbing mortars at the Heathrow a local salmon run, Pilot said. Uashat since Mani -Utenam Chief Jules Bacon pro- March to discuss human rights Airport runways. 'The Innu people will be directly affected by the claimed his band a separate political and administra- violations that the Innu say Ot- Rich, who was in Edmonton SM-M project. They will see their hunting and fish- tive entity Feb. 9, 1993. tawahasperpetratedagainstthem. March 22 to address a Davis Inlet ing camps, portages and sacred sites, meeting TheMani -Utenam,who live on a large reserve 15 In an address before the UN's fund- raiser at the National First grounds, their birth sites, cemeteries, historical and kilometres outside Sept -Iles, voted 56 per cent in Human Right Commission com- Nations Mental Health Training archaeological sites destroyed forever." favor of separation in a referendum in 1992 after the mittee, George Rich said Ottawa Conference, said Ottawa should Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson announced the two groups could not come to an agreement on how categorized the Innu as a minority recognize the Innu never signed provincial power company's plans to start construc- the Innu would deal with SM -III. inFebruary 1985 and subsequently any treaties and consequently tion of the project on Feb. 24. The first phase will Bacon is currently in jail for taking part in a denied them their right to self- never gave away any of their land. involve the construction of a dam to generate 650 blockade against the SM -III development in 1992. He determination. 'We're concerned about the megawatts of power on the Ste. Marguerite. was scheduled for release March 3. "Since that statement,the situ- province allocating the land for A subsequent project, which has yet to be ap- TheUashat,wholive on land adjoining the town, ation among the Innu has deterio- our move. We will never accept or proved by federal or provincial officials, would di- voted 80 per cent in favor of keeping the bands as one rated further," he said. acknowledge the fact that the prov- vert two tributaries of the Moisie River, 25 kilometres single entity. "Among the Mushuau Innu, ince owns it." social collapse reached such pro- The band is still negotiating portion last winter that it created the move with federal officials. Mohawks not evicting non - Natives an international scandal when But completing environmental videotapes of scenes in the village and logistical studies quickly By D.B. Smith were sent to the press." should allow the band to move Windspeaker Staff Writer "Non- Natives were residing here, really in violation of the Those tapes, released to the within a year. Indian Act and the letter basically said that. There was no CBC and other media outlets in In the meantime, life in the to throw them off...." January 1993, depicted several inlet must still be taken one day at KAHNAWAKE RESERVE, Que. threat Innu youths crammed into an un- a time, Rich said. One of the 17 - Kenneth Deer, editor, The Eastern Door heatedshacksniffingsolvents and children who were airlifted to the The Mohawks of Kahnawake screaming about suicide. Poundmaker's Lodge near Ed- are not throwing half-bloods off ber Billy Two Rivers told a CBC died there. No one was thrown Davis Inlet Chief Katie Rich monton for solvent addiction treat- their reserve despite anything the television crew the band had been off." said she was unable to talk to offi- ment last spring recently lapsed media might be saying, a member genetically damaged by non -Na- Tensions stemming from non- cials in Geneva about the lack of into a coma for 24 hours for no of the Kahnawake Band council tive blood, Laborgne said. Natives residing on the reserve is running water or sewage treat- apparent reason. said. Two Rivers was quoted as say- also nothing new, he said. ment facilities and the rampant But the general mood of the Stories in La Presse and the ing the Mohawks had to "draw The Bloc Québecois was quick unemployment and despair in her villagers has been better since the Globe and Mail on March 18 about from within ourselves and not con- to bring the issue to Ottawa, saying village as she "did not have the Dec. 16 standoff with RCMP offi- the reserve newspaper publishing tinue to lessen or diminish our ge- the Indian Act violates the rights of right connections". cials over the removal from the the names of 143 people to be ex- netic quality" by allowing Natives some people living on reserves. But the return trip through village of several convicted Innu pelled from Kahnawake for their and non -Natives to m arry and have Those people should other - London, England provided her prisoners. There have been fewer lac kof "geneticquality"wereblown children. wise be protected by the Canadian with an opportunity to talk to sev- incidents of gas-sniffing and at- out of proportion, said Chief The issue of band member- Charter of Rights and Freedoms eral news agencies, including BBC tempted suicide since then. Lindsay Laborgne. ship at Kahnawake is "very sensi- which guarantees fundamental Television and Radio. Rich also said she would be Only 11 people, all of them tive," Laborgne said. A shrinking rights regardless of race, a Bloc The 33- year -old chief - the running again in the band election non -Natives, were asked to move landbasecombinedwith1,500new spokesman said. first woman chief -of the remote this spring. Her term as chief ex- off of the reserve south of Montréal names on the band's membership Federal Indian Affairs spokes- village 330 kilometres north of pires March 31. because they were living there in list following the passage of Bill C- person Marie Peasant said her de- violation of the Indian Act, he said. 31 in 1985 has many residents up- partment is currently in court over The act gives band councils the set about non -status Indians and the issue of evictions from reserves Correction righttobannonstatuslndians from whites living on the reserve. and would not comment. living on reserves. The Eastern Door editor But Québec Aboriginal affairs An article in the Jan. 3,1994 reserve. The individuals named in the Kenneth Deer also said the eviction minister Christos Sirros con- edition of Windspeaker head- The exemption actually ap- letters and a band announcement story has been hyped out of pro- demned the Indian Act for allow- lined Taxation changes post- plies only where work is done in the newspaper The Eastern Door portion. ing such expulsions. poned incorrectly reported that off -reserve and the employee and "have no ties to the community," "Non- Natives were residing Québec would refuse to ac- income tax exemptions would the employer reside on reserve. Laborgne said. here, really in violation of the In- cept the notion of Native self -gov- be made in cases where work Windspeaker apologizes for The issue was given an un- dian Act and the letter basically ernment until bands complied is done off-reserve but the em- the error and any inconvenience pleasant racial slant by the media said that. There was no threat to with the Canadian Charter, he ployee or employer resides on it may have caused. when Kahnawake council mem- throw them off.... But the issue added. PAGE 4, MARCH 28 - APRIL I0, 1994, WINDSPEAKER Our Opinion ---"" Avoiding corruption a constant struggle Self- government is such a tricky issue. The questions facing Canadian legislators thus far have been when - and perhaps more difficulty, how - to imple- ment it. But in the wake of the federal government's draft audit of the Metis National Council's spending habits, many Natives may want to reconsider whether or not we want to pay for Native self -government as well. The board of directors at the MNC have a lot of explaining to do to justify expense accounts, surplus funds to the re- gional organizations and bad debts, all of which total in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's no small change. There's no telling how much of that money went towards legitimate expenses, such as constitutional reform programs, and how much went towards nice suits, first -class accommo- dations and manicures. Federal government auditors went through the council's books last month and found expense claims for limousine rentals for a funeral, airplane flights to meetings that were not attended, and consultant "buy- outs ". Leafing through the audit leaves one with the sickening feeling that our First Nations governments, despite their right to self- determination, are as subject to the corruption Illustration by Don Kew that too much unchecked power brings as the white bureau- cratic yahoos in Ottawa. That leads to an essential question on Native political honored unsung heroes ethics - will our quest for self -government eventually mani- Awards fest itself as an inherent tendency towards the sort of greed and mismanagement that the draft audit of the council sug- Truly a night to remem- gests? ber, the National Aboriginal Rumors of corrupt band councils, high on money and Achievement Awards - held power, have long been circulating in Native communities. in Ottawa Feb. 28 - recog- Every one of us has heard stories about rich band chiefs and nized, celebrated, and councils who keep their people poor and ignorant. Everyone honored the accomplish- knows a story or two about a band election that looked ments of 13 outstanding Na- suspicious, about an unpopular chief who found his way back tive Canadians. Established into office. Some of us even know a few. by the Canadian Native Arts Imagine what the First Nations would be like if those Foundation, the Awards paid small -time, reserve -based despots ran our affairs without tribute to the United Nations constitutional safety devices, without a mandate from all International Year of the tre at hundreds of smiling and Goodwill; Dene traditional Native peoples to follow Native laws, even without the bun- World's Indigenous Peoples. appreciative faces. Over- resource user activist Cindy glers in Ottawa to check up on them every now and again. "Until the creation of the whelmed by the energy and Kenny -Gilday; Cree educa- Imagine 400 spoiled ballots in a national chief's election National Aboriginal Achieve- enthusiasm, I thought to my- tor /activist Verna Kirkness; guaranteeing four more years of corrupt government. Imag- ment Awards, First Nations, self: "This is absolutely won- Inuit leader and political ac- ine your community's economy based on gambling revenues. Inuit and Metis achievers derful and it's about time we tivist Rosemarie Kuptana; Imagine being thrown out of your house and off your reserve were the unsung heroes of our congratulate and honor each Inuit business leader William because you regained your status under Bill C -31. Imagine country," said awards chair- other for our strength, talent, Lyall; Ojibway hockey coach your Native tax dollars paying for a Native government man and founder John Kim commitment, and endurance." Ted Nolan; Abenaki film- executive's $4,000 bi- annual holiday. Is this the kind of sys- Bell. Between ear -to -ear smiles maker /singer Alanis tem that we want to legislate for ourselves? It's the system we "Frequently working and tears of prideful joy, I Obomsawin; Haida artist/ have now. against great odds, these men respectfully acknowledged carver Bill Reid; Ojibway As- We've been carping about Ottawa's paternalistic approach and women have dedicated the culturally appropriate sociate Chief Justice Murray to Natives for centuries. But where is our workable solution their lives to improving their Grand Entry, as well as the Sinclair and Ojibway tradi- to this political inadequacy? The audit of the Metis National communities, serving as role expertly co- ordinated musi- tional teacher Elder Art Solo- Council serves as a stark reminder that the First Nations are models, and playing a signifi- cal and dance performances. mon. as fallible as any other government. To ensure our future as a cant part in the economic, so- While there were numer- As an educator, who is peoples, we're going to have to start thinking about a formula cial and cultural wealth of our ous deserving nominees, the too often frustrated by the that can work for Natives throughout Canada. country." esteemed 13 who received the pan- Native stereotype, the One possible solution may lie in the constitutional recog- Heralding the beginning National Aboriginal Achieve- awards night was important nition of the right. Another answer might be a comprehensive of the long- awaited event, ment Awards were: Inuit because they reflected our Native Constitution enshrined within the Canadian Consti- Thomas King joked about be- singer /songwriter Susan cultural diversity. As a par- tution. Whatever the answer is, it must be forthcoming soon. ing the festivity's pre -host and Aglukark; Metis social activ- ent, the awards night was Ottawa appears serious this time about giving us the right stand -in for Tom Jackson. As ist and Elder Thelma important because it commu- to control our own governments and economies. We'd better the audience applauded, I Chalifoux; Inuit political ac- nicated the Native people can have a solid political and ethical base to support them if we looked around the enormous tivist Nellie Cournoyea; Cree be the best at anything we want to avoid paying for pedicures. National Arts Centre's Thea- health services educator Jean want to be.

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viral _ WINDSPEAKER, MARCH 28 - APRIL 10, 1994, PAGE 5 Your Opinion Bone marrow donation Mom's fight not over Dear Editor,

My name is Teena Sawan. I can save someone's life live in Manning, Alberta and to the Woodland Cree Dear Editor: tered into computers through- come involved in the bone mar- belong out the world, which enabled a row donor program and /or Band. Recently, I in a custody Hi, my name is Anita search for possible marrow do- the blood donor program. was battle to have my child returned Louie the Nadleh Whut'en nors but with no success, they There is a shortage of Abo- of to me, after giving up for Band, first cousin to Stanley were unable to find a match. riginal people registered in the him Band. In December 1993, my aunt bone marrow donor program. adoption two years ago. I started Luggi of the Stellaquo my fight two days after he left My cousin was first diag- advised me that my aunts and The poster campaign will my care, and Feb. 10, 1994 the nosed Paroxysmal Noc- uncles will be going in for test- not only help my cousin but with Supreme Court of Canada re- turnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) ing; this is when our family knew will help any other Aboriginal fused to hear my case. Now I It one out of 5 it was becoming an urgent mat- person that may be in need of in 1988. affects lost my battle. million. PNH is a disorder in ter. To date, no one has been bone marrow throughout have They have the child's red cells are de- found who is compatible, but Canada and the whole world. chosen which blood best interests over the fact that stroyed, resulting in bloody the Marrow Transplant Unit is The Canadian Red Cross he is Native and belongs on the urine, especially at night. A currently doing testing on Stan's Society is willing and able to where he be able to membrane defect in the paternal side of the family which travel to communities if there's reserve, will basic learn about his own culture. red blood cells is involved. The I hope will be a success. an interest in our people who I was a foster child living in cause is unknown, b ut is linked This is when I started the would like to become regis- and out of white foster homes, to abnormal bone marrow. poster campaign. The first three tered bone marrow donors. mainly in to four weeks were spent locat- There has to be at least 100 never once being asked if I Occurring would like to return to my cul- adults between 25 and 45 years ing addresses and addressing people or more in order for the ture. I'm 20 years old now and it has symptoms of and stuffing envelopes which society to come into anyone's of age, not know anything of my and bowel pain, back went out to EVERY band, tribal community. do stomach Native taken son, pain and headache. Compli- council, and friendship centre If you are able to help me, background.Ithas Teena Sawan and her a of my life and I feel as a Michael may include problems in B.C., the Yukon and the North- please call me at (604)690 -7211 lot out Jordan cations little child just learning to walk clotting and a lack west Territories. or contact me by fax (604)690- with blood again. white kids put in Native homes. of iron. Treatment includes The las t batch of p os ters went 7316. My mailing address is I wish so badly to learn of This is discrimination and it giving blood, iron, and drugs out on Thursday, Feb. 17,1994 to P.O. Box 13, Fort Fraser, B.C., my Native culture but I feel that needs to be stopped! the bands in northern Alberta, V 0J 1 NO.Or you can call Sheena to halt blood dotting. making my for Stan's mother, father, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Wilkie, Canadian Red Cross I don't fit in. I'm stand I do not want this for my my culture as well as my son, brothers and sister were tested The poster campaign is go- Society, at (604)879 -7551 ext. son. I will continue to fight for and I will not sit until I am as potential bone marrow do- ing very well, but the next step 413 or fax (604)871 -9073. I believe in. heard! nors no success; they is to educate thousands and what but with People are always taking weren't compatible. thousands of Aboriginal people Mussi Cho! Native kids and placing them in Teena Sawan Then name was en- on why it is so important to be- Anita Louie Stan's white homes, but you never see Manning, Alta. Recognition of treaty rights solution to smuggling

Dear Editor: The so- called smuggling activity didn't rejected by Ottawa as being ultravires, ers such as Elders, children and women just start yesterday. This is an activity meaning these laws already existed in were made to stand outside in the cold I would like to respond to your edi- that has gone on relatively unchecked Canada. while there houses were searched. torial of Feb. 27, 1994 headlined Lower- for close to seven years. In the begin- We also made a presentation to the The very idea of our community ing Taxes on Cigarettes the Easy Way ning it was the action of a specific group Standing Committee on Aboriginal Af- being taken over by an armed outside Out. The editorial more or less sup- and at that time I spokeoutvery strongly fairs with regard to our concerns of treaty force without checking with the ported or encouraged an all -out inva- about compromising our collective na- recognition on border crossing rights. Mohawk Police or any officials from the sion by force of the Mohawk Territory tional rights for individual profit and Following that, we made a presentation Mohawk Council raised anger, contempt of Akwesasne. gain. to the Standing Committee on Justice and outrage. This action also produced One line in the editorial, If Ottawa In 1988 I, along with a group of with regard to the policing needs and recriminations, for many thought I was really wants to stop the bulk of the flow 1,000 community residents including the the limited authority of our the one who asked for the police to come of illegal cigarettes, they should station then A.F.N. National Chief Georges peacekeepers within our community. in. Over the next few weeks and months the police at the point where the law is Erasmus and his Vice Chiefs, brought Akwesasne has a population of I experienced retaliation by the way of broken 70 per cent of the time - on the over a truck load of groceries, furniture, 13,000, with roughly 8,500 residing on drive -by shootings directed toward my reserve'. Further in the editorial is stated clothing, appliances, even blankets and the so- called Canadian side, which is house and property, putting my entire "If the RCMP rushed onto the reserve to a case of motor oil from the U.S. side of further divided by Quebec and Ontario. family in jeopardy. raid the homes and storehouses of ciga- our community and made full declara- In actuality, on a daily basis we have to When you're writing your editorial rette traffickers, its unlikely that the tion of all items to Canadian Customs deal with New York State, the United it is not a simple matter of a police force women, children and Elders in the corn - officials and then refused to pay any States and Canada, as well as Ontario going on to a First Nations community munities would get out and block the excise customs, taxes or duties. and Quebec. by force; believe me it is never quite that approaching police lines as they did at Six years later we made our last The main culprit of our many prob- simple. During the last few years the called Oka ". appearance in federal court in Decem- lems in Akwesasne has been the very fact cigarette trade was no longer a so- As the Grand Chief of Akwesasne ber 1993 and successfully prevented that we are divided by outside govern- Warrior activity, but rather all the differ- for the past 10years, I would like to state Canada from outright quashing or dis- ments and jurisdictions and categorized ent elements in our community, in one that I am very disappointed that a re- missing our case from being heard at all. as U.S. Mohawks or Canadian Mohawks form or another, became involved from spected Native newspaper would even In other words, we have not had a deci- and on many occasions classified as ei- poor to unemployed, traditional and pro- suggest or encourage an army invasion sion in a court of law with regard to our ther Quebec or Ontario First Nations. gressive. of any Native community. treaty rights simply because Canada has The main problem is that laws in the The enticement was simply too great When the Prime Minister's office been too far occupied with delaying or U.S. are different than the laws in for community people to overcome. I stated a month ago that the laws of this attempting to prevent us from having Canada, just as laws are different in also knew that the bulk of the profits country have to be adhered to by every- this case heard. Ontario and Quebec. When you have from the cigarette trade were made by one, including Indian people on re- During this period very little effort this kind of situation without a clarifica- outside parties and that our people were serves, no other First Nation responded was made by way of enforcement by tion of treaty rights, the outside laws used merely as instruments. to that statement except the Mohawk outside policing authorities. At the early can be easily manipulated. In 1990 this community went Nation. stages it was only the Akwesasne In recent years cigarette manufac- through a civil war over a dispute over The fact is that there are two con - Mohawk Police, with no backup, who turers in Canada exported to the U.S. a unregulated gambling. The end result cems, one being the application of Ca- were on the river- seizing contraband, billion dollars worth of cigarettes. The was destruction of property, personal nadian law and the other the applica- while the RCMP and other police forces federal and provincial governments injuries and finally, loss of life. Four tion of Indian treaties and jurisdiction. stayed on the mainland in Cornwall made their money by imposing enor- years later we are still attempting to pull By denying our treaty rights and not and would instruct the Mohawk Police mous amounts of taxes and henceforth our community back together. We have recognizingourjurisdictionand author- officers to bring whatever was seized to began a tax revolution where First Na- vowed never to fight each other again, ity to govern our own territory, we have Cornwall. After repeatedly being re- tions were enticed to play the role of but to stand together against outside been made out to look like criminals, minded that they did not have the fed- Robin Hood types. aggression, even if it means forcing our- law- breakers or, at best, bandits. eral authority to be involved in this type The reality is had Canada recog- selves to deal with internal differences. When in actuality, the law- break- of enforcement and under overwhelm- nized the border crossing rights we The Mohawks of Akwesasne are not ing, however it is interpreted, comes ing circumstances, the Mohawk Police have as First Nations, we wouldn't have advocates of violence nor do we con- only as a result of our rights being de- decided to concentrate on community the so- called smuggling issue that is done lawlessness. Far too often we have nied by Canada. Aclear recognition and policing. The Mohawk Council of presently before us. In 1988 there was a been victims of circumstances and right interpretation of our treaties would pre- Akwesasne, also in the early stages of full scale armed invasion by the RCMP now that happens to be our treaty rights vent any manipulation or self -gain by this activity, passed their own Council in the Ontario segment of Akwesasne; on border crossing. any individual or groups. Quite simply, resolutions with regard to law enforce- it wasn't a pretty sight. The police did Canada has created a grey area in Abo- ment powers, water safety, guns, explo- not discriminate as to who were the Michael Mitchell, Grand Chief riginal rights by not addressing them. sives, etc. All of these resolutions were accused or the innocent and bystand- Mohawk Council of Akwesasne PAGE 6, MARCH 28 - APRIL 10, 1994, WINDSPEAKER ,

Oki, this issue is to the people who are trying to make a differ- ence in their community. I went Indian_ to take a look at the First Na- tions Mental Health conference here in Edmonton. I was just astounded by the number of Country people that came to Edmonton. I met many new people and in Community Events the future I will introduce some of them to you. But to get on with the subject,er, I mean, sub- Micmac) Inc., a peat moss com- languages in Manitoba. She told jects at hand, since this column pany, in which they were rec- me they could do it if they have TO YOUR IF YOU WOULD LIKE INCLUDE is about People and Places, I ognized by the prestigious busi- someone to translate for them. I EVENTS IN THIS CALENDAR FOR THE have some stories to share. nesses in and around Prince encourage anyone who can Edward Island as the up and speak their language fluently APRIL 11TH ISSUE, PLEASE CALL ETHEL The Prince's people coming business of the future to help with these kinds of Prince Edward Island - I'll ad- for the island. I would like to projects, so our people can have BEFORE NOON WEDNESDAY, MARCH3OTN mit that sometimes I'm igno- say 'Kwe to the people of Prince the choice to speak their lan- AT 1 -800- 661 -5469, FAX (403) 455- rant when it comes to geogra- Edward Island. guages. I thanked Mary for her phy and my knowledge of the time and I wish them the best of 7639 OR WRITE TO: 15001 -112 AVENUE, First Nations of Canada. I Language is essential luck. AB., T5M phoned down to the east and I Winnipeg, Man. - As I was EDMONTON, 2V6 wanted to know about the First reaching out to touch some- Olympics bound Nations of I to they Bellingham,Washington-Geez, NATIVE ELDERS SOUP & BANNOCK people Prince body, came the place Edward Island. I got to talking called Dirty Water in Ojibway. I'm really travelling this time. Every Wednesday at noon, Edmonton, Alberta with Charlie Sark from Lennox Yes, my last name was on the I'm glad my counterparts, Squol TORONTO INTERNATIONAL POWWOW (see ad) Island First Nation. He is the map. I stopped in and talked to Quol, gave me this information April 1 & 2, 1994, Toronto, Ontario Education Director for the band. a woman who is the executive to use. Thanks guys. Anyway W. CAN. ABOR. CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS He told me something which director of the Manitoba Asso- for the meaty gossip I heard: rings real true. Their Native ciation of Native Language. Her Hank Hoskins, a Lummi Indian, April 1 - 4, 1994, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan tongue is Micmac. The people name is Mary Richard, a Metis has been invited to go to Europe ANDREW WARD HOCKEY TOURNAMENT out in the east were the first of Cree and Ojibway descent. this summer. You ask for what, April 1 - 3, 1994, Hobbema, Alberta people to have contact with the She is 54 years old and has no well let me tell you. It is an inter- BATTLEFORD HOCKEY TOURNAMENT Europeans and they were the qualms about it. She has raised national competition for high first people to lose ways. has a couple of school students sanctioned by April 1 - 3, 1994, North Battleford, Saskatchewan their two sons and But slowly, like other nations, grandchildren. the USA Olympic team. The 12- SIFC 16TH ANNUAL POWWOW they are starting to get their As you know, many people day trip will include stops in April 2 & 3, 1994, Regina, Saskatchewan culture back. Last year the First have lost their mother tongue Germany, Austria and Switzer- ELDERS POWWOW Nations put on their first pow- as I did also, through many of land. He will participate in train- April 3, 1994, Siksika Nation, Alberta wow in many, many moons. the hardships we endured. ing sessions with several coaches AB NATIVE HOCKEY PROVINCIALS There are two First Nations What they are trying to do is get and compete in the shot put reserves in Prince Edward Is- back the language in Manitoba event in two age group meets April 7 -9,1994, Calgary, Alberta land. One is called Lennox Is- or anywhere for that matter. against foreign athletes. This ROGER GEORGE MEMORIAL ALL -NATIVE land (as I said before) and the They work with many First young, eager man has earned BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT other is Abegweit (please don't Nations through teaching. They the invitation by his sports ac- April 7 - 9, 1994, Fort Hall, Idaho ask me to pronounce it). Both have different projects they complishments; he is avid in PRINCE GEORGE HOCKEY TOURNAMENT are located on little islands just worked on. Two of them are football, baseball, power -lifting, off the coast of Prince Edward Ojibway lesson books and tapes basketball and track. He's no April 8 -10, 1994, Prince George, British Columbia Island. We talked about Sark's that are provided with those couch potato, that's for sure. But 17TH ANNUAL NATIVE OPEN BASKETBALL reserve of Lennox Island. There books. They have made a First on top of all of his accomplish- TOURNAMENT are about 250 -300 people who Nations medical journal in ments, he never forgets who he live on the reserve. Tourism is Right is. He April 8 - 10, 1994, Pincher Creek, Alberta Ojibway. at this moment has strong Native values. 3RD one of the biggest enterprises they are starting a dictionary of This is a world class opportu- ANNUAL NATIONAL ABORIGINAL Sr out there. 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Sub- pany in Toronto was walking have lived peacefully with harvested the bounty of the land conscious maybe? down a street to meet me for lunch. their immigrant cul- Somebody once asked me if She was wearing the fur hat a longer than I going out with family friend had given her. As ture has been on this continent. because was recently, I a character Marie, I would consider becom- she reached an intersection, a total Just saw I when stranger came up to her and on Saturday Night Live throw a ing a feminist. said sure, an image of Marie becomes a Native person. snarled, "Do you realize you have bucket of paint on wearing a fur coat, ac- We respected each other's beliefs a dead animal carcass on your someone belief that and convictions: Marie became heads Surprised and a little fright- tively promoting his paint on well known in Native artis- ened by this sudden and unwar- ityand disgust. I know one person ing urging people to switch to her "fur is wrong." Throwing quite ranted antagonism, my friend who, as a political protest against philosophy because it's better. someone you disagree with? Now tic circles, and I often accompa- a political nied her to and supported many avoided a confrontation and went her meat-eating boyfriend, refuses A few months ago, my there's sophisticated follow! of her feminist activities. on her way. During our meal, I to even walk down the meat aisle partner, a lapsed but struggling doctrine I'd like to Surely Does the term "conscious" suggested she should have re- at the grocery store. And it goes vegetarian, took me to see a lec- evidence ofa superior civilization. vegetarian members of the Church only refer to feminism? If so, it's sponded, "You have a dead ani- way beyond that. ture by a well -known No doubt things he Can. awfully bold to appropriate that mal carcass for a head." Several years ago, I was work- dietitian. Many of the of the Divine Spray the word. I was tempted to go up to The longer I live in the city, ing on a documentary series with had to say were accurate, healthy Several years ago, when lot I still boycott against seal fur came into Marie's friend and ask, "Are you the more I watch and read the avegetarianproducer.Onourway and made a of sense, but in him; it just coats from conscious? Do you know about media, the more I become aware back from a difficult day of shoot - noticed a bit of mania effect, wasn't pups NativebeliefsorNative issues ?" Is of disturbing fact about the domi- ing,the crew stopped off at a road- something that said to me, this Newfoundland seal that and seal products that allowed? nant Caucasian world. I refer to side diner late one evening. Two guy thinks he's right every- were affected, but Inuitcom- The worst example of "my the mentality that what "they' be- of us sat at the counter with the body else is wrong. from all over the Arctic. were way of life is better than your way lieve is correct, and what every- producer and proceeded to order. "The human body isn't munities in the North devas- life" is Sunday morning televi- body else believes is wrong. I say As Iwas pondering the menu, my made to eat meat," he said. "It tated. It was no longer economi- of for sion. There you see wall -to-wall instead of "we" because in friend asked for some fried destroys the body rather than cally viable to hunt seals, even "they" evangelism: people ways, my people are prod- chicken. No sooner were thewords builds it up. Nature has not made food. television some atyou tobelieve only in the implementation of this out of her mouth than the pro- us carnivores." Tell that to all the Instead, many communities screaming ucts of way worshipping God, philosophy. ducer began to tell her about Aboriginal tribes of North endured a horrendous increase in their of the northern welfare dependency, casualties of and nobody else's. Most Canadians, I would chicken farms, in graphic detail. I America, especially As you're eating your scram- hope, are aware of the tragic his- listenedwitha smile, having spent nations,whose dietconsistsmostly a philosophy that doesn't care eggs, won't see an Native people: how we years being lectured bywell -mean- of meat. I'd like to see a vegetarian about the Aboriginal way of life, bled you tory of Ojibway Elder shouting at you were forced to give up our land, ing missionaries who came to our try to dig up a potato in three feet only about making sure everybody from the TV to pray to the Four forced into various Christian reli- reserves with their own particular of snow. The Plains Indians sur- follows its own rules. send $50 for some gions, forced into residential brand of truth. vived almost totally on a diet of When I started dating a Directions, and traditional sweetgrass so you too schools, forced onto reserves, As he finished, he caught buffalo meat and were among the woman named Marie, who called can have your own cleansing cer- forced by the Children's Aid to me smiling and said, "Not so fast. strongest, healthiest people on the herself a "woman who advocates asked by a emony. When's the last time you give up children for adopti on, and Now it's your turn." I got the 10- continent. feminism," she was on friend she described as a radical saw aNative person going door to a hundred other "forceds," all be- minute lecture on the evils of eat- He also commented how if I As door, trying to convince you to cause white people had a firm be- ing veal sandwiches. At least I the digestive tract has to draw cal- feminist was "conscious." was raised by a come to a sweat lodge? lief that their way of doing things learned onething. never order veal cium from the bones in order to someone who mother, and It's not our way. The Native was the best and only way; that in front of a vegetarian unless you process meat. He went on to say hard -working single in belief is basically to say, "You're everybody should be forced to do want to piss them off. As I sat that the "Eskimos" have an incred- who was brought up a culture respect and more than welcome to join us in or believe things that way, or they there, I wondered if he actually ibly high rate of osteoporosis. I that has a traditional I find that what we do, but you don't have to were not salvageable or welcome thought he was making converts. know many people who have reverence for women, if you don't want to. You have members of society. Regardless, it made me rel- worked in the North, and Inuit term a little presumptuous. And way, we have ours." the Spanish ish the sandwich all the more. I people themselves; and after ask- from what I understand, this radi- your The Crusades, Everybody has opinions, and Inquisition, the conquest of the hate it when people inform me ing some questions, I found that cal feminist looked a little disap- told her no, everybody should. That's the way Americas, missionaries, Manifest that eating a simple sandwich is a nobody seems to know anything pointed when Marie made. And I am well aware Destiny, anti -Semitism, white political statement. If this keeps about this high rate of osteoporosis. not in the Caucasian white sense. we're (I refuse to be a card -carrying any- that not every single person in supremacists need I go on? up, I won't be allowed to have an I wonder why. ... today's society has this driven, Amazingly, as I have discovered, English muffinuntil things change In fact, these people eat an thing.) friend found evangelical state of mind but the belief that fueled those destruc- in Northern Ireland. amazing amount of animal flesh, But when her - she breathed a enough do to make life for the rest tive forces exists today in many of As a relatively well -read some of it pure fat. Yet among out I was Native, "At least of us kind of difficult. the more "progressive" causes. individual, I was already aware of those that follow their traditional sigh of relief, saying, Marie Like everyone else, I have a Take vegetarians, for instance. what he was saying. I happen to diets, there is a surprisingly low you're both oppressed." heart dis- happens to be Filipino. Am I to political and philosophical agenda Now, I have nothing against them; have made the choice to eat meat, level of cholesterol and saving grace that I live by. But who the hell am some of my best friends are veg- partly because I enjoy the taste, ease. Maybe Nature did mean for assume that the only it find in me was the fact I to say my viewpoint, my lifestyle etarians, and I've been known to partly because it is part of my cul- them to eat meat. Could be that she could "? Nothing choices, are better than anybody eat the odd vegetable myself. But tural heritage. Evidently, a meat- this vegetarian was wrong? that I was "oppressed me only that? else's? some vegetarians, when they see eater's choice isn't as well -re- Often, these same people be- else about mattered, I all this cor- So, please, feel free to ignore me eating a chicken leg or chomp- spected or logical as a vegetarian s long to animal- rights organiza- So if understand certain people, an in- everything I've just said. Heaven ing on a roast beef sandwich, have choice. We are the enemy. How tions. Nobody wants to see ani- rectly, only small fraction of the forbid, I wouldn't want to influ- this peculiar look that seems to be about kd Tang's "MeatStinks" com- mals suffer. A worthwhile cause credibly world's population, who believe ence anybody. a combination of moral superior- mercials out west? Paid advertis- within its own limits.Butnotwhen

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W indspeaker columnist Drew Hayden Taylor is the new Artistic Director of Native Earth Per- big Juno winner forming Arts. Tomson Highway, vice -president of the Board TORONTO CBC'sMomingside, Nash said of Directors, announced Taylor's appointment, she has never claimed to be effective immediately. In a triumph over Indian directly related to the George "We are delighted with this new addition to Wannabe -ism, Native Law- family, but that Chief Dan had Native Earth," said Highway. "From the begin- rence Martin was presented been her "biological father ning, Native Earth has wanted to provide an with the best music of Abo- many lives ago." outlet for Native writers and to encourage theat- riginal Canada Juno for his al- As for Martin, a half -Cree rical writing from the Native community. bum Wapistan at the televised half -Irish Native from the "In Drew we have found an established writer awards ceremony March 20. Moose Factory Reserve in Sas- who is passionate for theatrical work and whose Martin beat out B.C. -born katchewan, he said winning enthusiasm and genuine talent will encourage Native Wannabe Nancy Nash, the Juno was "the one time my others to write for the stage." aka Sazacha Red Sky, whose Indian -ness is really paying Taylor is perhaps best known for his drama controversial use of Chief Dan off." Toronto at Dreamer's Rock, which has been pro- Georges family prayer song Martin and his group en- duced in major theatres across Canada and was on her album red sky rising tertained the audience at the awarded the prestigious Chalmer's award in 1992. receiving the That same year, he also won the Canadian Au- has some members of the Junos before Drew Hayden Taylor George family furious. award. thors' Association Literary Award for Best Drama Nash took a Native - Also nominated in the for The Bootlegger Blues. North of Sixty, Street Legal and The Beachcomb- sounding name and adopted Aboriginal music category His humorous commentaries also appear ers. He was Playwright -in- residence for Native Chief Dan and his wife Minnie were two songs by J. Hubert regularly in the Globe and Mail and he has worked Earth Performing Arts in 1988 -89. Croft as her Indian parents, Francis Sr Eagle Feather and as a journalist for Maclean s magazine, Southam Taylor's first project is Tina Mason's extrava- said Georges real son Leonard. another by the Stoney Park News, Books in Canada and Cinema Canada. gant adventure Diva Ojibway, which will begin In a recent interview with Singers of Morley, Alta. He's written radio dramas for CBC's Momingside April 19 at the Native Canadian Centre in To- and scripts for television programs, including ronto.

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March 28 - April 10, 1994 Regional Section Canada. Volume 12 No. I Water contaminated after toxic spill

By Dina O'Meara fions. Windspeaker Staff Writer "All the data was collected fol- lowing summer condition, where the rate of dispersal due to decay is PINE FALLS, Man. greater. Under winter conditions, chances are the materials were car- Days after being assured their ried down to our intake," said band water was safe to drink following a spokesperson Eric Boyde. toxic spill, members on a Manitoba Angry residents marched to the reserve were told chemicals could Manitoba legislature in Winnipeg have been carried into their water to protest the spill, calling for sanc- supply before the lines were shut tions against the pulp mill and off. stricter environmental controls. Members of the Sagkeeng First Federal and provincial govern- Nation were already in shock fol- ments are contemplating laying lowing the announcement the week charges against the company. Ap- before of a toxic chemical spill from proximately 18chemical spills from the Abitibi -Price pulp mill. Resi- the 70- year -old mill have occurred dents were notified of the danger over the years, without being re- four days after more than 800 kilo- ported to the band until now, said grams of corrosive chemicals Boyde. spilled into the Winnipeg River, The band has been concerned upstream of the bands water in- with the effluent from the mill for take valves. decades,and initiated anindepend- At the emergency band meet- ent study in conjunction with the ing following the announcement, Fresh Water Institute of the Uni- worried residents cried with fear versity of Manitoba last year. Re- their unborn children would be sults indicate high coliform levels affected by the toxic wastes, said in the water, as well as high inci- band spokesperson Eric Boyde. dents of lesions found in regional 'There were hysterical preg- fish, said Boyde. A cancer cluster nant women at the meeting. Just and skin study is also under way to the fear of what could happen was determine if incidents of stomach making people sick ; he said. cancer and dermititis on the re- Although the spill of Rusan- serve are higher than normal. 52, a pesticide used to control bac- Desperate band members have. teria in the paper -making process, made threats to block highway and happened March 11, the Sagkeeng rail lines to the mill if nothing hap- Jim Goodstriker band was not notified until the fol- pens within a few weeks. The mill Goin' for the shot lowingMonday. The next day they is undergoing a $30 million buy- North Dakota Warder Tex Hall swings by Oregon Athletes Merle Smith during the Blackfoot were warned not to drink the wa- out by employees, funded by the Invitational Basketball Tournament, held in Gleichen, Alberta March 4-6. Sixteen men's and ter, with Abitibi -Price footing the provincial government. The band bill of trucking in water and ladies teams took to the court to battle for $6,000 in prize money and awards, in a double sup- is meeting with the unions involved knockout draw. After three days of hectic top -notch basketball action the Oregon Athletics plying bottled water to residents. with the mill this month to find emerged as the men's champions, their fourth in a row, while their counterpart from the That stopped when the water ways to protect the water supply. Oregon State, Inter -Tribal from Warm Springs, won their second straight ladies title. Both was given a clean bill of health 'We're trying to find common teams were the 1993 basketball champions. The Athletics showed the true form that FridayMarch 18. But five days later ground with views to find a long EnvironmentCanada admitted the champions are made of, as they came back from an earlier defeat to the Warners at 121 -114, term solution to the problems with to defeat the same Warriors 116-84 in the championship final. tests used to check toxin levels were the drinking water of Sagkeeng," inadequate for cold winter condi- said Boyde. Minister meets with Sechelt, apologizes for delay

Darah Hansen, optimistic Chief Garry Feschuk. the government's near 20 -year de- to study the claim,which they were Meanwhile, Cashore s assist- Windspeaker Contributor The band had threatened to lay in honoring the land deal and granted. ant deputy minister, Randy Brant, remove Sunshine Coast Regional apologized on behalf of the prov- 'We were hoping it wouldn't has been assigned to deal with the District water pipes off their land ince. come to this," Feschuk said in Feb- band's outstanding comprehen- SECHELT, B.C. by Feb. 14 unless the province re- "I recognize the government ruary of the threat to remove the sive land claims issue. opened land daim discussions has not moved with dispatch with water pipes off their utility corri- Cashore declined to clarify A land claim settlement is with them. The threat was based regard to that issue. I regret that. I dor, which would have cut the whether the Sechelt's claim was a doser at hand for a British Colum- on a 20 -year wait for the govern- stated that today." water supply off to about 10,000 "priority" for his ministry, but rec- bia band which forced the provin- ment to honor a land exchange in But he remained closed-lipped people, induding most band resi- ognized the band's progress in the cial government to honor its prom- which the band allowed the water as to any deals made regarding the dents. area of self- government. ises of priority negotiations. pipes to be laid across their land in band's outstanding land claims. The band believes the govern- "In that sense,...by my coming Members of the Sechelt band exchange for 25 acres elsewhere. Due to the on -going nature of ment has been stalling talks be- here today, I have indicated the council and officials from the Abo- Although Aboriginal Affairs min- the discussions with the Sechelt cause they want the Sechelts to priority that I have placed on... riginal Affairs ministry were all ister John Cashore assured the Band, Cashore said the govern- take their claim through the Treaty being in discussions with them smiles when they emerged from council before Christmas 1993 the ment was not prepared to say any- Commission, a drawn-out process with regards to continuing treaty an over three -hour meeting, held Sechelt daim would be treated as a thing "at this time." the already self- governing band negotiations," he said. March 10 in Sechelt. priority, talks were stalled until At the eleventh hour, two days wants to avoid. The band has a Band council called Cashoré s Were moving in a positive the band forced the issue. before the threatened cut-off, pro- comprehensive land claim ready promise a "significant step for- direction where we are going to be At the recent meeting Cashore vincial representatives met with for discussion on an area of 113 ward" in ending their outstanding treated as a government,' said an said it was not his role to defend band officials to ask for more time square kilometres. land claims issue. - APRIL 10. 1994. REGIONAL WINDSPEAKER PAGE R2, MARCH 28 --11111MI Prairies Jules Édouard Gaudet disputed former Québec Deputy Minister of Revenue prosecutor Sinclair accord LAVEAUX, LEMPICKA By Jon Midgley Buffalo, one of the organizers of end, a committee was established ATTORNEYS Windspeaker Contributor the Edmonton discussion. to consult all groups represent- Buffalo pointed to the Con- ing urban Aboriginals in Edmon- BUSINESS LAW - FISCAL LAW stitution Act of 1982, which re- ton to discover their concerns EDMONTON quires a negotiation process be- and jurisdictions. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW fore any changes can be made to "We'll meet to try and get ABORIGINAL LAW - CHARTER LAW Who represents off -reserve established treaty rights. She information. We want to find out Natives in Alberta? That was the argued that this accord repre- how other groups interpret the question of the day at a recent sents the start of a negotiation accord," said Buffalo. 5160 Blvd. Décarie, Suite 865, Montréal (Québec) H3X 2H9 Coincidentally, a meeting meeting at the Native Friend- process and questioned the right phone (514) 893 -2526 Fax: (514) 737 -3107 ship Centre in Edmonton. of the Congress of Aboriginal had been planned for March 16 The March meeting came on Peoples, and its new leader Jim in Edmonton at which urban the heels of a political accord Sinclair, to negotiate on behalf of Natives could ask band chiefs reached between the federal gov- 750,000 Natives living off reserve. about the support, or lack of sup- emment and the Congress of Russell White, Grand Chief port, available to off -reserve In- Aboriginal Peoples (formerly the of the Bill C -31 Association of dians. Native Council of Canada). Alberta, said the Congress cer- Buffalo sees the new accord Dr. Joseph J. Starko The accord, signed Feb. 27, just tainly doesn't speak for his or- as having implications beyond hours after the NCC changed its ganization and that having talked possible redirection of govern- O P T O M E T R I S T name and its leader, sets a year- with representatives for off -re- ment expenditures. In her view, long agenda allowing the Con- serve Indians and Metis in Al- it calls for negotiations which For Appointment Phone (403)422 -1248 of its berta, the Congress doesn't speak could eventually eliminate gress to negotiate on behalf Building Indian and Metis constituency. for them, either. The Congress treaty rights for the off -reserve 805 Empire Up for negotiation are issues finds most of its support among Natives who constitute roughly 10080 Jasper Avenue such as interpretation of treaties, eastern off -reserve Natives who one -half to two- thirds of all EDMONTON, Alberta T5J 1V9 Metis enumeration, community have no other means of repre- Canada's status Indians. development initiatives, housing sentation, he added. A key issue raised by the and infrastructure initiatives, a "I am challenging Jim Sinclair accord is that of jurisdiction as it review of the post-secondary now. I want to know who gave applies to self -government. TAKE CATALOGUE ORDERS program, Aboriginal him Bill C -31 Indians," said White argues the C -31 Associa- education 10,000 best -selling consumer products, health policy and Aboriginal jus- White. tion of Alberta is successfully We drop -ship Priced below wholesale, directly to your customers. tice issues. People at the meeting called pursuing such jurisdiction for far Appliances, electronics, TV's, housewares, jewelry, gifts, novelties,etc. "I think its the most impor- on the Congress to come and its own people and that it's of tant document signed this cen- explain ithe accord, and to ex- little help for the Congress of IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. tury because of the implications plain on whose behalf the Con- Aboriginal Peoples to imply that Ideal for mail -order, flea markets, party -plans, retailers, for treaty rights," said Connie gress intends to negotiate. To that it has the same jurisdiction. wholesalers -sell to friends, relatives, stores, etc. SPECTACULAR HOME BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. For information kit call toll free Teen treatment centre 1- 800 - 265 -5540 meets opposition well By Rob McKinley in their back yard. There are 245 vision and security is very have been few Windspeaker Contributor lots on Fork Lake that are avail- done, and there able, and over 100 residents, problems even where clients are areas. BEADS & LEATHER pointed out one resident, in the set up in urban OTHER CRAFT living just a SUEDE FUR RICH LAKE, Alta. audience of 70. With so many "There's people SUPPLIES people, bringing in a wilderness stone's throw away from our cen- Sask. S7K 1K9 Eighteen months of research camp was ridiculous, she said. tre in St.Paul. We've been there 224 -2nd Ave. South Saskatoon, and planning for a camp to help Vince Steinhauer, for four years and there hasn't youngpeopledealwithsubstance Poundmaker recreational direc- been a crime increase. Our clients and solvent abuse came under tor, said the camp would only be haven't been a big problem in the fire at a public meeting in Rich used for fivedays outof the month town," she said. Lake, near Lac La Biche, Alberta. as a "hands on" Native spiritual- The matter now goes to the Poundmaker's Lodge, the ity program. A wilderness setting municipal planning commission largest Native -run substance is best suited for this for this kind of Improvement District 18 SPEAK - READ - WRITE * CHEROKEE ;abuse treatment centre inCanada, of teaching, he added. And build- (South) for a recommendation audio tape instruction with full -blood Cherokee Sam Hider has been lobbying for a recreation ing on Fork Lake would help which will then go to the Plan- Approved by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and used in schools to teach Cherokee lease at Fork Lake, an area near "build a bridge" between people ning Commission in Edmonton. SPEAK - READ - WRITE - * CHOCTAW Rich Lake for the camp. The 68 of different races. Corralling the MPC member John Martin hinted audio tape instruction with full -blood Choctaw Charlie Jones acre camp would house a treat- project onto a reserve would be a that it was unlikely a positive rec- Approved by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and used in schools to teach Choctaw ment centre for adolescents aged step backwards, Steinhauer said. ommendation would be made. Each program has two 60 minute cassette tapes and a 50+ page workbook 12 -18. 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"Measuring mercury in fish By Dina O'Meara should not have declined at that By John Holman is tricky;' Lockhart says. The we don't have enough Windspeaker Staff Writer all, said an official. access WindspeakerContrilutor older, bigger fish have higher to information that "It's not something to be can amounts of mercury." shed a light on these scoffed at," said Bas suggestions. We have to The results must be based on YELLOWKNIFE YELLOWKNIFE Oosenbrug, assistant director make better use of local the age and length of fish, since of wildlife management divi- it's common to fish as knowledge and provincial get old as The apparent decline of sion.'There were no reports of Contaminant levels, such as 55 years old in the north. resources.," said Oosenbrug. females and calves in one of disease or poor conditions, and So that of mercury, are reaching Results show that older fish far the territorial gov- the largest caribou herds in there were low numbers of ernment funds the bulk of alarming amounts in the North- accumulate higher amounts of northern Canada has offi- west Territories wolves sighted," he said. "So survey costs, which include and could be mercury compared to theirbody cials scratching their heads we were harbingers of futurehealth prob- surprised when we hiring planes and paying weight, than younger specimens. over what seems to a loss of got the results." ground lems, says a federal government Little particles fall on thelakes personnel in Sas- more than half the herd. Almost 15,000 people from katchewan and Manitoba as official. all the time through snowflakes But experts believe the "It's kind of like the miners' Fort Smith to northern Mani- well. The financial burden or rain, Lochkhart said. The par - drop may simply be a statis- canary." toba depend on caribou for should be shared more eq- explained Dr. Lyle tides slip down the sides of the tical blip caused by Beverly food and Lockhart, speaking at a commerce. But uitably as residents in the lake into the deeper parts, where Herd splintering into two Oosenbrug believes Yellowknife presentation. The they the June three areas are affected, he settle as sediment on the or more groups during the 1993 survey could be incom- healthof animals "cantell uswhat bottom. Sediment cores, suggested. water calving season. plete. But is happening before it happens column samples and biological ultimately, the peo- The Beverly herd, which One suspicion is that when ple to to us." specimenscan pinpointthepres- whom the herd is most roams a 100,000 square kilo- the calving count was done, a important are the ones who He cited findings over the ence and levels of contaminants. metre range between the years thatillustratehydrocarbon portion of the herd was not in can force an economic reso- Samples, taken in thick tubes, Northwest Territories and its traditional calving grounds lution. buildup in the northemMacken- show that the top sediments - con Saskatchewan, suffered a north of Beverly Lake. Be- "It will be the zie River, below the Norman tain 7.5 times more mercury than users who dramatic cut in numbers ac- cause of the huge distance decide whether this is an is- Wells oil well, and the rise of the bottom layers. cording to the most recent covered mercury on seals and whales in by the animals and sue and they need more in- "Essentially, we can slice survey conducted last sum- the high cost of the Arctic. Burbot livers, once through surveying, formation. Caribou aren't history," Lockhart ex- mer. Results from the such studies are only com- valued at what they large, pale and creamy in color, plained, saying that each should N.W.T. Renewable Re- pleted every six years and in be at the higher levels of are now shriveled and brown, centimeter of sediment repre- source department indicate and the meat tastes terrible, Dr. specific areas. Deviations government. Many commu- sents a period of 15 years. The that in a six -year period the from that area by parts of the nities depend on the cari- Lockhart said. A probable rea- growing contamination is not herd dropped from 170,000 herd throws number counts bou for son was oil trapped under ice their lifeline," limited to lakes,hesaid.Eventhe animals to 87,000. into a spin. Oosenbrug said. over the long winter season; since vast Hudson's Bay is showingan Biologists arestartled by "We're not getting good then, the incidence of shriveled Renewable resources of- increase over a century time - the results as conditions enough information on the ficials have scapped to- livers have dropped. A n - frame. Cores from the southeast since the last survey in 1988 conditions,a lot of it is guesses. gether enough funding to other troubling fact is that mer- comer havealso shown mercury have indicated the herd Ultimately what causes this is conduct a count this month. cury contamination of land- buildup.

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A record number of athletes with a contingent of 77, took have to keep a close eye on the SLAVE LAKE, Alta. took part in winter and indoor home a respectable 37 ulus. games' growth. Being born on a trapline could sports,as well as thecrowd- pleas- Although the Russian teams "Hosting them in a commu- have given the winner of the jun- A breath of spring heralded ing traditional Inuit and Dene of Magadan and Tyumen only nity this size keeps the commu- ior individual dog mushing the end of the largest northern sports like the airplane, finger took home 22 and 16 ulus home, nity type spirit. They have to re- medal an added advantage over winter sports event in Canada. pull and two foot high kick. respectively, Team Magadan main at a size that can be com- other competitors. Warm breezes and light rain The week -long games ran swept the cross -country ski fortably handled and affordable," Then a gain, maybe it was Kyla marked the last day of the 1994 March 6-12 in Slave Lake, the events, taking nine golds, seven Haggard said. Boivin's love of the wind in her Arctic Winter Games, making the southem -most site in the history silver and six bronze out of 12 The price tag for hosting the face and the thrill of the race that host town of Slave Lake, Alberta of the event. Warm, southern events. The Russian contingents games came to approximately brought the 11- year -old Yukoner a virtual mud bath. But it would weather caused concern among left with pledges of increased $3.1 million. That's higher than the gold ulu at the 1994 Arctic take more than huge puddles to organizers, but by moving sev- participation in future games. usual because the road to the ski Winter Games. This was the first dampen the spirits of departing eral outdoor events, like skiing, The rising popularity of the hill had to be improved and large competition for Kyla, but athletes during the closing cer- ahead one day, they were able to uniquely northern sports event equipment like vans and trailers the petite musher doesn't lack ex- emonies of the games. avoid having to move them to has some organizers concerned. had to be brought up from Ed- perience. More than 1,300 athletes from Jasper, where there was still a Athletes from Norway and Fin- monton, approximately 280 kilo- "I've been dog mushing since across the Arctic sang along with high snow cap. land have expressed interest in metres to the south of Slave Lake. I was four years old," boasted Metis singer Laura Vinson, Team Northwest Territories joining the games, a message Organizers of the 1996 games Kyla. She has been leading dogs danced to a local band, and topped the medal roster with a getting mixed reviews. to be held in Eagle River, Alaska, on the family lynx and martin cheered at every opportunity, total of 151 ulus, thegamesmedal "I don' tknow how muchbig- estimate their budget to be trapline since then. inviting about 1,500 spectators shaped after the traditional Inuit ger the games can get," said Dave around the $2 million mark. The "Well, actually she was hang- to join in the celebration held at knife. Team member Edgar Hurley, with Sports North. " Too city of 25,000 residents is only 10 ing on to the leads," said proud the Sawridge Plaza mall parking Kotokak also broke the AWG much bigger and we'll have to minutes away from the urban mom Kathryn, with a laugh. "It's lot. A pre -ceremonies exchange record for the Alaska high kick at move to bigger centres. That centre of Anchorage, where in her blood now." of team jackets and flags among seven foot one inch, from the would change the complection equipment and accomodation for Today the young girl leads the Canadian, American, Rus- previous record of six foot eight of the games. the 1,500 expected "guests" will four dogs on the line and at the sian and Greenlander athletes inches. "The level of competitiveness be easily and inexpensively games. resulted in a colorful mishmash Team Alaska came in second, is getting much higher, there's accessed. Continued on Page RS

The spirit of competition shines

First Language Children's Literature in Slave Lake. WORKSHOPS Roberta Roberts At Alberta Power, we're proud to community -based Create be a sponsor of the 1994 Arctic quality school books in your language Winter Games in Slave Lake, Needs assessment Alberta. The Games attracted the Writing school books Helpful hints finest athletes the north has to Box 8 Igaluit it's held the Northwest Territories offer and every time XOA OHO Canada event becomes more exciting. Office Tel: (819) 979 -4821 Office Fax: (819) 979 -4763 Athletes from Russia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alaska and Greenland took part in the Games Nortext AC" this year. Congratulations to all the competitors who trained so hard. WINDSPEAKER IS... And a special note of appreciation People and Places. for the work and tremendous This column is dedicated to all the communities and enthusiasm of organizers, people who make up the volunteers and the people of communities. Ethel has big ears to listen. big eyes to see Slave Lake that helped to make and a big heart for people. the Games such a success. She's in needforfor good clean stories or jokes or poems. So drop her a line. whether it be on paper or in person or on the phone. PHONE:1-800-661-5169 ALBERTA POWER LIMITED MAIL TO: An ATCO Company Ethel Winnipeg. c/o Windspcakcr 15001 -112 avenue Edmonton. AB T5M 2V6 FAX: (103) 455 -7639 REGIONAL WINDSPEAKER, MARCH 28 - APRIL 10, 1994, PAGE RS Sports Clinching as a team toughest goal By Dina O'Meara and not to get frustrated," said Rossignol faced heart -breaking Windspeaker Staff Writer coach Paula Gaudet after beat- disappointment in the final ing Team Yukon 59 to 53 in the game against Team Alberta. semi -finals. "They haven't Geared up for a gold, Team SLAVE LAKE, Alta. trained together so they get re- N.W.T. had change their expec- ally frustrated when things tations when two of their top Defenceman Andre Fortin don't go smoothly. players were injured and an- had aimed high when trying "I'm really proud of my guys, other had to serve an untimely out for the Northwest Territo- they just pulled it together," she penalty. Team N.W.T. lost to ries midget hockey team. said. "At the half-time we were Team Alberta 5-4. The 15- year -old was hoping down by 10 points and we just "I feel bad about it. Most of the team would capture a gold decided we really wanted this. the game was gbod, but we ulu at the 1994 Arctic Winter Each person had a job, and they should have started playing to- Games, like they had two years did it. They went man -to -man gether earlier in the game then before in Whitehorse, Yukon. and were really pumped." just at the end," said a disap- But he was disappointed dur- The round -robin format of pointed Rossignol, 15. ing the last day of competition. the games tires players but gives This was the first Arctic The team lost to Yukon, 11 -6 them an important opportunity Winter Games for the tall, vet- in the finals of the week -long to come together as a team. And eran hockey player, and prob- games which ran March 6-12 in to play everybody twice, giv- ably the last. Rossignol, who this small northern Alberta ing players and coaches a has been playing hockey reli- town. chance to develop strategies. giously since he was seven and "A bronze wasn't what we Having lost to Team Alaska in a half years old, expects to be were hoping for," said Fortin Gary Nugen the first round, and knowing living in Toronto next year after the game. "We practiced a Team Yukon's Laura Cabott (#9) takes a run at Alberta goalie her team was facing them again where he hopes to be picked up couple of times before coming Stacey McCullough during the final Women's hockey game at on the morrow made Gaudet a by a scout and eventually enter here and a went on peak into the 1994 Arctic Winter Games. bit aprehensive. junior A hockey. the games - or so we thought." "Alaska is a definitly a force "We came with the intention Like all other team sports province or state. And teams players came from Yellowknife. to be recconned with," she said. of winning the gold," said coach played during the AWG, mem- can and usually are made up of Two came from Inuvik, one And so they were. Team Dave McDonald. "But I'm not bers often play as a team for the kids from all over the country. from Iqualuit, and one from N.W.T. took home a silver ulu disappointed at all with the first time at the games. Pre -trial For example, the men's bas- Arviat. in basketball after losing out by team. They were very gamey games are used to select the ketball team counted them- "The mostchallenging thing 30 points to Team Alaska. and have nothing to be ashamed best to represent the territory, selves lucky because five of the is to get them to play as a team Bantam hockey goalie Carl of."

A Special Thank You to all of the Mushers go for gold Athletes, Coaches & volunteers Continued from Page R4 ing on the trail. no mishaps. who helped make the Arctic Kyla won the gold in the co- "This is something I've wanted Alaska took the led in medal ed 12 and under category. She to do for a whi le," he said, after the collecting, mushing to the gold in Winter Games a success. pulled in first in the 10-km race, final 10- kmrun. "I'mhappyabout four of the five categories, co-ed just ahead of Justin Carey, 9, from getting the silver ulu." junior and juvenile 10-km run, co- Whitehorse, Yukon, and Ashley Justin's dogs are also novices, ed junior 13-km run, and co-ed Ladouceur, 10, from Fort the o ldest being 18 months old, the juvenile 7.5 km. Yukon took one E.W. Pratt High School McMurray, Alberta. youngestarealpupatninemonths. gold and three silvers in the 10 km Nine -year -oldCareyhasbeen Although unseasonably co-ed 12 and under, junior and 13 behind dog sleds for six years, warmweatherhadmadesoftened km co -ed junior. Alberta's Box 150, High Prairie, Alberta TOG 1E0 tagging after dad Wendel, presi- the snow at Devonshire Beach, Ladouceurtookanotherbronze in Phone: (403) 523 -3813 dent of the provincial dog just outside of Slave Lake, to a the 75 km run, and Northwest mushing association. Also a first - "sticky" consistency making the Territories' Peter Cucheran took Fax: (403) 523 -5470 time contender at the games, trails tough to gain s peed on, com- bronze in the 10 km co-ed juvenile Justin said he's always liked be- petitors did well and there were race.

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"For years, we've been The Samson Band has no doing our shopping outside the name yet for their new 2,160 - reserve. This will retain these square -metre mall and gas bar, dollars." but The Big Plug" would be A huge line of custom- very appropriate. ers waited patiently for serv- The mall and gas bar are ice following Chief Buffalo's Samson an attempt to stop the speech - an indication of the community's dollars from go- popularity and business the ing to Wetaskiwin, Samson new mall will enjoy. Management general director "It means a lotto the corn- Melvin Nepoose said. munity," station manager Ron Much of the central -Al- Bobinski said. berta Native community'sbusi- "It's their own private en- ness was going straight down terprise, it's creating employ- the road to Wetaskiwin, he said, ment. a community that never gave "A lot of money gener- anything back. ated from this project goes back Its just a drain, Nepoose to other projects, generating said. more money." "So this is plugging the There has been a need drain." for the gas and convenience sta- The combination gas bar tion for the Samson people for and convenience store, which some time, he added. employs about nine people, "There's no facility in the opened to a long line -up of area, not for them." customers on March 10 amidst The mall, which is not Terry Buffalo cuts the inaugural ribbon to the yet unnamed Samson gas station and a flurry of excitement. Chief scheduled to open until late convenience store on Highway 611. A ribbon- cutting cer- May, will employ about 50peo- emony held on -site marked the said. Clifford Potts and Sousay, who had his gas tank A lunch of hot dogs and ple, Nepoose opening day for the 30,000 litre- councillors Shops will include a Larron Northwest also lent a filled and his vehicle's oil pop followed Chief Buffalo's capacity station. hands -on service, band -owned grocery store and Chief Terry Buffalo cut hand. checked by the chief. inaugural marked the beginning a branch of the band's own fi- the ribbon, which was held by Following the ribbon - Fuel for the twin -pump which new economic era for the nancial foundation, Peace Hills former Chief Jim Omeasoo and cutting, Chief Buffalo symboli- station, which Nepoose ex- of a Band, Nepoose said. Trust. chairman of the board of direc- cally flicked on the first pump. pects will serve the local Samson "The main thing is to re- About720 square metres tors Barb Louis. Industrial board The station's first official population, will be supplied economy," he said. of space has yet to be leased. of directors and Samson Band customer was Abraham by NorGas Limited. tain our

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Best wishes IF NEWSPAPERS GREW ON TREES... things would be easy. We'd pick it when it's ready and wait for it to grow back. But unfortunately, newsprint has to be made from the tree itself and because trees play to =few. newsprint makes alot of sense. the role in our environment, recycling such an important Compared to virgin fiber, the production of one tonne of recycled newsprint uses half the Please recycle this Samson Mall fresh water. It results in74% lessairpollution,22% less waterpollution ,savesl7 pulp trees newspaper! and creates additional jobs. REGIONAL WINDSPEAKER, MARCH 28 - APRIL 10, 1994, PAGE R7 I We are proud to have been Cuts stymie We are proud to be a part of the the general contractor on recruitment future success of the Samson Mall. By Gina Ted the Samson Mall project. Windspeaker Contributor

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An Edmonton police commis- sion member fears the postpone- ment of recruiting classes by the JDHNETDN city's police service stymie Abo- riginal recruitment. "There are 33 Native members HUILER of the Edmonton Police Service, LTD. but the members are relativelylow Haivey D,iziing in proportion to how many Na- tive people there are in Edmon- ton," said Tony Mandamin, the only Native member of the police 5315 - 36 Avenue #9, 205 - Chatelaine Dr. commission. "The EPS had been taking a number of measures to improve the recruiting of Natives Wetaskwin, Alberta St Albert, A l berta for the police force. If they post- pone these classes for a couple of (403) 352 -6596 years, it will bring the process to a (403) 460-0441 halt and Natives won't get in." The recruitment classes, de- layed until at least 1995 due to budget cuts, has immediately put 10 to 12 possible Aboriginal re- Wiszdspeaker is.. . Four Native Business cruit placements on ice. to six of those were slated to start classes in March. The delay means EPS won't make its target of 50 Abo- riginal members by 1996. "Certainly those officers are Good 4uck not the total answer," Mandamin said. "But their presence would make it much easier to achieve community-based policing." damson Mall The move is expected to save the EPS $100,000 per month as it It was our pleasure to hare grapples to deal with $6 million in budget cuts over the next three Years. Mandamin, a lawyer, said been part of this new project. the recruitment delay sorely un- dermines the recommendations of the Justice on Trial Report and Edmonton's community-based DISTRIBUTORS OF policing initiative. Released by the Task Force on FOOD SERVICE EQUIPMENT i 1991, NORGAS the C rim nal Justice System in the report made 342 recommen- dations to create a more equitable Wholesale Refined Products criminal justice system for Alber- gasoline diesel ta's Aboriginal communities. Its chief recommendationwas tohave heating fuel -lubricants more Native and Metis involve- ment in all levels of the justice ESTABLISHED 1916 system, and it placed a special 159 Oakside Place S.W. emphasis on having more Native 14520 - 128 AVENUE Calgary, Alberta and Metis police officers to work with Aboriginal communities. EDMONTON, ALBERTA (403) 560 -0664 (403) 445 -9457 'More Native officers would (403) 452 -7580 provide a two -fold benefit, ' Mandamin said. "In terms of the Native community, it would re- ally help by inspiring confidence in the police service and it would assist the police service in terms of Congratulations to the better reaching the Native com- Samson Mall. munity. ES AR SGT. Jim Kennedy, co- Thanks for the opportunity to be ordinator of the Aboriginal job an MASONRY (1988) LTD. development program for the EPS, agrees. He said there are too few part of this project. Aboriginal members, and cancel- ling the recruitment class doesn't Bays, 7957 - 49 Avenue help matters. Kennedy noted that it was Red Deer, Alberta T4N 5W8 "pretty disappointing" for the Abo- riginal candidates, who now must until PH: (403) 340-1145 FX: (403) 342-6670 bide their time elsewhere C & T INTERiOR DESigN' classes start up again. Two of (403) 340-1152 those candidates are currently working as part of an Aboriginal Journeyman Painter job development program \ through the EPS, but Kennedy said Interior Decorator GOOD LUCK he doesn't know how much longer they will by employed because of budget cuts. Meanwhile, Kennedy hopes TI-TANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FROM BEST WISHES the cuts won't further affect the HOBBEMA'S FIRST NATIVE WOMAN CONTRACTOR already small number of Aborigi- nal EPS members. Anything less, CALI Kim SWAMPY Box 231 he said, would be disastrous. and a solid foundation for the "Hopefully we won't haveany 585 -4055 HObbEMA, AIbERTA of our Native officers leave us,"he 585 -2569 TOC 1NO future of the Samson Mall. commented. PAGE R8, MARCH 28 - APRIL 10, 1994, REGIONAL WINDSPEAKER GOOD LUCK AND A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE. with We supplied & installed built up roofing and It was a pleasure to have participated in the Samson Mall project. Sleeping related sheetmetal. parents may be Best Wishes to the Samson Mall HBT AGRA Limited key to saving L.H. Walker Roofing Ltd. Engineering & Environmental Services babies from #4, 5551 - 45 Street, Red Deer, Alberta crib death Box 677 Grande Prairie, Alberta (403) 539 -7847 (403) 343 -8566

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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS The conference objective is to develop and foster a consistent approach to understanding and protecting our Treaties INTERNATIONAL TOPICS through meaningful dialogue that focuses on protection, Treaties as International Instruments (Presenter to be announced) enhancement and promotion of Treaties. International U.N. Treaty Study Mr. Tony Gonzales, International Indian Treaty Council An opportunity to gather information and gain valuable in- United Nations Working group on Indigneous Peoples sight from resource people who are experts on Treaty Issues. (UNWGIP) and External Affairs Canada SPECIAL EVENTS NATIONAL TOPICS History of Treaties April 26 (evening): Registration & Reception Mr. Ronald Manguire. Treaty Consultant. The Manguire Group. April 27:Tour of Saskatchewan Indian Federated College Specific Treaty Promises April 27: Banquet & Dance Mr. Ronald Manguire. Treaty Consultant. The Manguire Group.

Treaty Right to Health: Medicine Chest Clause - Treay 6 Mr. Randy Bottle. Chairman, Alberta Indian Health Core Commission FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT Treaty Right to Education: Treaty 4 Ms. Deborah Wilde, Conference Coordinator Presenter to be announced Ph. (306)696 -3160 Fax. (306)696 -3146 Taxation Exemption /Immunity - Treaty 8 Presenter to be announced Mr. Wes George, Conference Chairman Natural Resource Revenue Sharing Ph. (306) 696 -3160 Fax. (306) 696 -3146 Mr. Perry Bellegarde, Touchwood File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council Representative WINDSPEAKER, MARCH 28 - APRIL 10, 1994, PAGE 9 JINGLES - LIDS - $15.00 PER 100 U.S. News 71111E NO MORE LIPS TO CUT OFF! FREE CATALOG WITH ORDER FEATHERS -CONCHOS- LEATHER -BEADS HAIRPIPES - SKULLS - FRINGES - BELLS & MORE SEND 83.00 U.S. FOR 88 PAGE CATALOG ONLY! Saskatchewan casinos to blossom EAGLES By D.B. Smith Wagoner, South Dakota to obtain signed treaties with the Crown. STEVE Windspeaker Staff Writer several mini-casino trailers, Royle The Bear Claw Casino was PO BOX 88142, WS. CO. SPRGS., said. The alliance has only to let scheduled to open at the end of COLORADO 80908 the White Bear trial wrap up be- March, casino chairman Ed Pasap 719 -495 -0798 / FAX - 719 -495 -0897 WHITE BEAR RESERVE, Sask. fore the casinos open. said. But the band will not startup Indian Head Flags - 3' x 5' - $16.95 Postage Included. The trial in near -by Carlyle is operations again until the alliance A Native gaming alliance's expected to wind in March. gives the go-ahead. plans to open a series of casinos Charges against the White The band first opened its ca- across Saskatchewan should un- Bear's Chief Bernard sino inMarch,1993.RCMP raided y$$ ... " =(a`S . Purchase a Unique line of Market Shepherd as the court case in- - ,d , :. r' ' ,; à Tested Products Double your fold soon as were withdrawn and charges the facility shortly thereafter, con `' investmentatanyyNativeor volving last year's police raid on against Elder and gaming corn- fiscating most of the gambling ACCESSCF= Country gathering. i Noose from the White Bear Indian Band's ca- missioner Brian Standingready equipmentand a large sum of cash. r. ahuge vaned selection of Western sino wraps up. were dismissed last October. The Federation of Saskatch- ___J) Accessories & Bandana Fashions The Ochapowace, Muskeg But the province is still pursu- ewan lndian Nations began nego- Wholesale Information. Lake, Wahpeton Bands and the ing charges against the Bear Claw tiating with the province on behalf Please call Ramona at Whitecap Dakota Sioux First Na- Casino and its American supplier of the White Bear for the right to ANB BANBANA FASHIIINS 604 -753 -4117 or 604 -321 -9901 tion are all planning to open their Alan King. establish casinos on the reserve own casinos simultaneously, First Lawyers for the casino are re- soon afterwards. Posd44021 u Al 4 4444444d NANAIMII ItANCIIIIlt:11 Nations Gaming Alliance spokes- lying on the testimony of But Saskatchewan Justice Fe. 04 4e , NO OST man and Whitecap Chief Bon Standingready, historians and an- Minister Bob Mitchell held firm Royle said. thropologists to prove the band on the province's policy banning The alliance is negotiating never surrendered its righttomake any unlicensed gaming facilities with an American supplier in laws and govern itself when it on reserves. Discrepancies pepper financial records

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EDMONTON tage; reached its easternmost destina- How your lawyer can as- tion on its 1,500 -kilometre jour- Participants in the Abo- sist in economic develop- ney in mid- March. - Barry Wilson, vice -president, Inuvialuit riginal Business and Fi- ment; "We have been travelling Development Corporation nance conferences will be How to access bank loans across difficult sea ice and lake helping the University of for economic development ice through Arctic storms for al- Alberta's Native Studies and operations; most two months," said Russell Tuktoyaktuk on Jan. 31, heading Croker River. department while sharpen- How to use Aboriginal eco- Newmark, Vice President of E. west over sea ice to refuel radar At each site, fuel is trans- ing their own business nomic programs as part of Grubens Transport Ltd, the cat- sites at Liverpool Bay, Nicholson ferred from beach storage tanks skills. your overall financial plan- erpillar trains' operator. Point and Horton River. to short -range radar sites on The Toronto Dominion ning; "Although the cat train has "After departing Horton Canadá sNorthWamingSystem Bank is donating the$50 reg- How to use Aboriginal encountered high winds, I invited River for Paulatuk, N.W.T., the using the fuel sloops and a mo- istration fee to Native Stud- capital corporations to assist visibility and temperatures be- cat train became delayed due to bile hydraulic pumping system. ies to help ease the pinch in accessing funds. low-45 C, the crew is in excellent poor ice conditions," said Barry Fuel is pre -positioned by sea lift caused by recent govern - When two members of a spirits and the project is ahead of Wilson, vice -president of the each summer. ment funding cutbacks, says community register, the schedule." Inuvialuit Development Corpo- The cattrain also transported Barry Menary, Manager of chief or chairman are regis- A crew of nine, most of them ration, owners of the cat train. freight to two sites and relocated Aboriginal Financial Serv- tered free. Inuvialuit from the Western Arc- "The ice along the shore near three core camps, consisting of ices. On May 2, the venue is tic, operate the cat train. Scouts the Smoking Hills had broken six trailers each. Designed for the leader- the Delta Edmonton Centre on snowmobiles precede the away during a storm and when The re- supply contract, ship, administration and eco- Suite Hotel; May 3 is the Sad- train, staking the proposed route the cat train arrived in this area, which was awarded to IDC for nomic development officers dle Lake Administration in over ice and land. Ice conditions they encountered young sea ice the fourth year in a row, was of First Nations and Metis Saddle Lake and May 5 at are measured and assessed by a which was less than one foot in valued at more than $1 million settlement communities, the the Eagle Nest Community technician operating a subsur- thickness. The scouts then un- and employs more local residents conference will be held in Centre in Enilda. Conf erence face interface radar or ice profiler. dertook a skilled reconnaissance than any other alternatives. It's three different locations in starts at 9 a.m. Once it's determined the and designated an alternative reported to be at least as cost - Alberta in early May. 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It seemed AIDS. A new summer music festi- His 30- it was better off to be a white man." second spot called val is soliciting Native acts. Living Tree, 1993, was created The Rendezvous West Festi- CALGARY a 10 during -week residency val, to be held July 29 to Aug. 1, is - Artist Zachary Longboy at the Banff Centre for the Arts looking for Native entertainers to Zachery Longboy was and Video Program. He was catapulted into action seven flesh out its lineup of musicians, chosen to attend this residency artists and craft merchants. years ago when he discovered video work he explores the vi- of being caught between two of second decade persons liv- The weekend will emphasize he was HIV positive. sion, search and teachings of tra- cultures. ing with AIDS. family entertainment activities "It forced me to put my ditions, dreams, hopes and di- Classified as Metis, you Longboy's experimental such as music, arts and crafts, left foot and right foot down, versity of First Nations Peoples never really fit with the white work extends beyond his ar- Native foods and the lifestyle of and climb that mountain," he and how this reflects his on own man or with the Indian, he said. tistic achievements to include the cowboy poets, mountain men explained. life. "When I was 11 I years old, a pioneering outlook in ad- and Indians of the Bow Valley. In doing so, he has found "I continually apologize for bathed myself in bleach. It dressing his illness. Thisyear sheadlinersinclude himself participating in the not being First Nations enough; seemed it was better off to be a While he continues to Hal Ketchum, The Nifty Gritty artistic community in a realization: What is enough? I man," he white explained. climb his own mountain with Dirt Band, Blue Rodeo, Colleen number of different ways. continually for apologize not Longboy's recent video the AIDS virus, he has recently Carter, Don Edwards, Brett Bar- First he attended the being white enough; realization: work is exploring his own HIV / started to use alternative plant row and Lesley Schatz. Emily Carr Art Co liege in V an- What is enough? No sorrow at AIDS status. An experimental medicines through the guid- The Native couver for five years. Then, in lineup of enter- this moment, instead recogni- piece titled I Didn't Know My ance of Vancouver Medicine tainers includes Redwood, 1991, he began examining tion of the extremes of differ- Prince is a work in progress. Women, to reduce the effects Quentin Pipestem, the Young video as a means of commu- ence that are present within our Choose Your Plague, of the virus on his body. Eagles and Ecka nication. communities.' Janus. Longboy's third piece, is a col- "I have a lot more energy A Native village will also be Now, Longboy is a In Longboy's 11- minute ex- laboration with Vancouver than I used to and I don't shake painter, performance constructed near the river with and perimental documentary video video maker Paul Lang. This as much," he explains. "I will tipis, a lodge, video artist who blends his sweat a wild horse Eating Lunch, (1992), he illus- recently aired on the Public remain working as an artist corral, crafts and art talents in an on-going explo- trates of exhibits as the struggle two cul- Broadcasting Station. and go wherever it leads me." well as demonstrations in Native ration of his identity as a Na- tures. many One of strong im- Longboy is also among 11 Longboy will continue to foods and canoe building tive gay artist. in ages the video is the image of Canadian and U.S. artists who explore video, drawing and Entertainers looking For the past three years, to take a painted doll being washed created 30- second public serv- installations at the First Na- part in this new summer event Longboy has been one of three a hose. with garden Underneath ice announcements for televi- tions Video Access in Van- can contact Edmund A. Oliverio people co -ordinating the First the layer of paint is a white doll. sion to deliver a safer -sex mes- couver as a way to convey his at EA() Music Nations Video Access pro- Corporation, P.O. As this image is transforming, sage to a variety of audiences as personal search and discov- Box gram in Vancouver.In his own 1240, Station M,Calgary,Alta, dialogue indicates the dilemma the world enters its second dec- eries. T2P 2L2.

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As a result, the business now compu- By Jon Midgley the bank. pers tod ay is indicated by Fox's figures,which The paper will survive, LaPlante says, ter, a photocopier and a loan at Windspeaker Contributor Eastern Door show there are somewhere between 44 and but "what we'd really like is to serve our But even if the Kahnaw ake Deer says 85 Native newspapers currently operating. readership better. We have the ability to do is surviving under its own steam, he welcome further assistance if it EDMONTON Fox doesn't have a figure for how many better but we lack the resources." would Native papers existed before 1990 but sug- Chances of getting more resources from were available. Pro- "It's still a struggle and we barely sur- Four years after the federal government gests the current numbers indicate instabil- the federal Native Communications vive. No one is getting rich off this." cut all funding to Aboriginal newspapers, ity. In fact, he cites a study commissioned by gram are not good. The Tek awennake Six Nations and New the survivors and those who were self -suffi- the government itself which shows most "I would say the chances of the program non-existent," said pro- Credit Reporter in Ontario is also getting by. dent in the first place continue to keep Na- Native people depend on Native publica- being resurrected are Big whose It has a circulation of 2,500 and a staff of tive peoples informed. tions for their news but are never sure when, gram spokesman Gordon Canoe, eight. They didn't have government fund- Until 1990, many Aboriginal papers or if, the next publication will come. office now falls under the Canadian Herit- ing in 1990 and they don't now. depended on federal funding for up to 100 "The Aboriginal peoples need support ageDepartment (formerlySecretaryofState). Shirley Smi th, owner and p ub li Sher, feels per cent of their revenues. When the budget mechanisms to sustain their cultural and Theprogram now offers assistance only or manyNativecommunitiescan support their axe fell, some papers were given six month's linguistic endeavors," said Fox. 'The reason to radio and TV projects in the territories own newspapers. However, she isn't about notice. Others learned they would be on culture and language are in the state that in the northern regions of the provinces, and that, Big tocriticize those newspapers which received their own at the end of the month. they're in, is because of government and there's been no talk of changing 'There was no warning or consultation. mainstream society trying to assimil ate Abo- Canoe says. funding before 1990. "I don't feel just because I had to do it, It was just 'by the way, you don't have fund- riginal people. We have to keep striving to Several papers have come into exist- have to do it. I really feel bad because a ing for your newspaper anymore;' recalls protect ourselves." ence since 1990 and are showing signs of you funding was cut off up north and Ray Fox, president and chief executive of- But Native papers continue to function. success. KennethDeer, editor,publisher and lot of that this their only source of income." ficer of the National Aboriginal Communi- Thanks to local entrepreneurs, the Blood owner (even paperboy, if necessary, he was Fox is of the same opinion, arguing cations Society, an umbrella group for Na- Reserve has another newspaper now - the claims) of the Kahnawake Eastern Door, - Native peoples often live in tive communications societies in Canada. Blood Tribe Community News which said his paper was named the best English that Canada's - which can't easily sup- According to Fox, there were numerous circulates 2,000 papers purely on subscrip- language paper in Quebec for 1992. small communities they have casualties.AmongthemwastheKainaiNews tions and advertising revenue. "At the start we thought we would be port a newspaper. Very often addressed by the main- on the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta. As far as Many Fingers is concerned, the very successful if we sold 1,000 newspapers unique concerns not Kirby Many Fingers was a board member of News is doing an excellent job regardless of in the community. Lately we're selling over stream media. people the News at the time. the fact it is funded by advertisers within the 1,400," said Deer. 'The Native communications information to the "Communications didn't disappear off community. The only difference, he says, is The paper comes out every two weeks have a mission to provide in a language they the face of the earth overnight. After the cuts, that there is now less coverage of provincial and survives on advertising and sales. Al- Aboriginal population decisions Indian news media tried to make a go of it as and national news. most half the advertising revenue comes can understand, so they can make long as they could." Another paper which lost funding in from outside the community. about their lives. is, the underlying The Kainai News lasted a year before 1990 was the Saskatchewan Indian. Gary The Eastern Door did get some govern- "That was, and still inCanada. Soyou're closing down, leaving seven people without LaPlante was associated with the paper and ment assistance but not from the Native objectiveofNativemedia pulled out work. And that was the sort of thing many recalls it lost 100 per cent of its revenue Communications Program. Instead, help ill- prepared to find the support must compete people expected when the Secretary of State almost overnight. The paper suspended came from the Aboriginal Development Pro- from under you and that you stopped funding Aboriginal print media. publication for two or three months until a gram in Industry, Science and Technology. with commercial media to survive," said Fox.

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By Sheena Stewart Rather than wait for techni- Windspeaker Contributor cians to correct the satellite uplink, CFWE staff got on the phone and instructed some com- EDMONTON munities on how to manually adjust their dishes to receive the Aboriginal broadcasting signal, which meant some com- plays an important role in the munities were back on line lives of many of Canada's Na- within three days. Most, how- tive communities. Not only does ever, were readjusted by crews it provide an important infor- travelling by truck from satel- mation network for communi- lite dish to dish. Later this spring, ties that are often isolated from crews will head out on a tour to other information sources, it also make sure all the dishes are ad- helps them in the preservation justed correctly. of their own distinctive lan- guages and culture. Satellite Facts At present there are 13 Abo- The Anik -E2 has been re- riginal broadcasting organiza- placed by the Anik -El, which is tions in Canada. Together, they currently handling most of reach more than 400 communi- Canada's broadcast signals. ties and provide some 674 hours Orbiting some 23,500 km above of radio and 17 hours of televi- the equator, Anik -El was also sion programming each week. slightly damaged in the Jan. 20 Of the 13, 12 are actively in- geomagnetic storm that volved in community radio pro- interrupted service nationwide. gramming, serving a listening (Because satellites orbit over audience of more than 125,000 the equator, most North Ameri- nationwide. Only one organiza- can dishes face south.) tion, TVNC, devotes itself strictly to television broadcast- British Columbia:1991 statistics ing. Bert Crowfoot indicate eight community-based In Alberta, the Aboriginal radio stations are currently in Multi-Media Society and its flag- Mark Wolfleg at Siksika Radio entertains listeners while helping them to keep informed of operation. ship station CFWE began broad- what's happening in their community and the world around them. Saskatchewan: Home to 15 com- casting in 1987. Since that time, munity-based radio stations. six community radio stations ture. Native leaders, artists and bringing national issues and ceivingband support. Although Manitoba: As of 1991, only two have emerged from the 48 com- performers are given a forum concerns to the attention of Na- advertising currently pulls in stations in operation. munities that receive CFWE's often denied them by main- tive communities. In many only about a quarter of most Ontario: 33 community radio signal. For these stations, stream stations. ways, Aboriginal broadcasting stations' revenues, Macedo be- stations as of 1991. CFWE's main role is to provide Dawn Antone, the station networks form a national coali- lieves broadcasters, like the Quebec: Coming in with the national and regional coverage manager for Osakdo Commu- tion, sharing both ideas and pro- more successful Native papers, highest overall number, Que- while allowing the community nity Radio in Saddle Lake, says gramming, Macedo says. may have to move toward fi- bec had 45 community radio sta- stations to provide their own members of the c ommunity have One example of this is the nancial self- sufficiency in prepa- tions as of 1991. culturally specific program- been very receptive to the pro- relationship that exists between ration for the end of govern- Labrador: Had six stations in ming. gramming offered by the sta- northern broadcasters. To- ment funding programs. the most recent statistics. "Even in small groups there tion. gether, they share programming "The NNBAP has cut fund- Northwest Territories: (East) 22 are significant cultural differ- "We can tell from the re- responsibility for much of ing by 10 per cent every year stations. ences," explains Paul Macedo, quests that come in that people Northern Canada. since 1991, so advertising dol- Northwest Territories: (West) CFWE's director of marketing. are listening," she says. Osakdo "It really allows people a lars will likely become more 21 stations While CFWE broadcasts in both Radio puts an emphasis on of- better national Aboriginal per- important," Macedo says. Yukon: Three stations. Cree and English, community fering listeners an eclectic blend spective," says Macedo. "Listen- Funding issues aside, Abo- Alberta, at the time of the radio is free to broadcast in their of music that ranges from rock ers get to hear from Native lead- riginal broadcasters are already 1991 report, had only three sta- own Native language in their to traditional powwow. ers and entertainers from across well aware of the need to be tions. Since then, three more areas. "We really try to meet all the Canada." resourceful and self- sufficient. have been created. Today, aside Inaddition to servicingcom- needs of the community, and Financially, Aboriginal A good example of this was from CFWE, there are commu- munities in their own languages, being small gives us the free- broadcasters . are funded CFWE's own ingenuity when nity stations at Assumption, Aboriginal broadcasting allows dom to do that." through the Northern Native faced with the failure of the Siksika, Meander River, Saddle communities to be exposed to a Aboriginal broadcasters Broadcast Access Program, with Anik -E2 satellite this past Janu- Lake, Hobbema and Lac La broad spectrum of Native cul- also play an important role in some community stations re- ary. Biche.

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Also, the prestige asso- and Drug Addiction Counsellor. applications from individuals of Aboriginal ciated with the scholarship will The Program operates under the auspices of the Red Lake ancestry. Effective for the 1994 -95 academic mean increased publicity for her thesis. Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital, reporting to the Director year, four positions in the Nursing Program "More will read it. and two positions in the University Transfer people of Mental Health. It's a great motivator to do a Pre -Nursing Program will be set aside for Please reply before April 5. 1994 to: good report." qualified applicants from Aboriginal ancestry. Boissonneault's thesis deals DIRECTOR For more information contact the: with culturally appropriate Adult Mental Health Program housing for Natives in urban Box 1336, Red Lake, Ontario Chairperson of Nursing, areas. In her preliminary re- much of POV 2MO Keyano College Nursing Program search, she has found Fax: (807) 727-3979 the material written about Abo- Fort McMurray, Alberta T5H 2H7 riginals to be lacking cultural Ph (403) 791 4889x889 awareness. She explains that "the will is there, but there's a lack of knowledge" about Native cul- mono COIIa9 ture. For Career Opportunities She hopes that she can en- courage other Aboriginals to n St. Thomas upgrade their education. @mouton It would be very helpful if University more Aboriginal people got into Director of Native Studies this area of study, she says. "We SOCIAL WORKER I need Aboriginal planners." CMHC Scholarship Awards (1 Permanent Part -Time Position) 3 Days Per Week go to students in such varied disciplines as engineering, en- Community & Family Services Department St. Thomas University invites nominations and applications for the position of director of Native Studies. vironment, business and public This is a professional social work position with the primary administration, social and of working closely with Aboriginal families. You will be responsibility St. Thomas University is a four -year liberal arts institution affiliated science, architecture, providing a broad array of direct preventive social services ranging behavioral with the University of New Brunswick, with which it shares a library from initial assessment, counselling and group work to community economics, law, planning and facilities. The university is self -governing and work initiatives. Emphasis will be placed on the enhancement of and some physical history. in arts, education and social work. A BA access to, and the provision of culturally sensitive social service to grants its own degrees Since its inception in 1947, has been offered since 1981. Aboriginal clientele. The successful candidate will work in a degree with a major in Native Studies Scholarship Program environment to deliver preventative services. The university has an enrolment of approximately 2,000 students. the CMHC supportive, team has given out almost $273 mil- To quality you must have completed a Bachelor's degree in Social The incumbent be expected to provide leadership in the lion to 2,495 Canadian students. Work plus a minimum of one year's experience in such areas as will Studies program, to carry out all The current annual maximum is intake and assessment, counselling, group work and community development of the Native work. Well developed communication, group work and negotiating responsibilities related to the administration of the program and to $14,154 per student. skills are essential along with a sound knowledge base in social work work closely with students and both the university and Native prevention, direct social delivery and community resources related to communities. In addition to assuming the responsibilities of the the needs of Aboriginal clientele. Preference will be given to those director, the successful candidate will teach courses in Native First having an intimate knowledge of native culture and Language applicants Studies. Children's directly with the Aboriginal community. Also, fluency in a native Literature would be desirable. language The director of Native Studies will be offered a tenure-track position NOTE: Applicants will be required to arrange their own transportation at the rank of assistant professor. Candidates should preferably have SCHOOL BOOK for use on City business and where appropriate, will be reimbursed a PhD, or a minimum of an MA (or equivalent) in a discipline in accordance with City of Edmonton Policy. These positions qualify appropriate to a liberal arts university; preferably have prior PRODUCTION Employee Benefits Package. for the City of Edmonton's university work experience; preferably have a working knowledge of and SALARY RANGES: 583 $19.16 - $24.07 (HOURLY) one of the Native languages of the region (Micmac or Maliseet); Roberta Roberts be familiar with the issues of Native post -secondary education in Director, School Book Projects When applying please quote POSTING NO.: 24- 0004 -94. Canada. CLOSING DATE: April 5, 1994 Produce quality first - Applicants are asked to submit a curriculum vitae and evidence of language school. books teaching effectiveness (teaching portfolio preferred) and to arrange to and materials The City of Edmonton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. have three letters of reference sent directly to Dr. Roger H. Barnsley, Nortext Positions are filled by means of open competition where the Vice -President (Academic), St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Box 8 Ictaluit selection is based on job related skills, training, experience, Brunswick E3B 5G3 (FAX 506 -450- 9615). Northwest Territories and where appropriate, seniority and residency. suitability XOA OHO Canada to: Closing date: May 15, 1994 or when the position is filled. Applicants Please forward applications Office Tel: (819) 979 -4821 are responsible for ensuring that their files, including letters of City of Edmonton Office Fax: (819) 979 -4763 Personnel Department reference, are complete by this date. In accordance with Canadian 18th Floor, Centennial Building immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian 10015 -103 Avenue citizens and permanent residents of Canada; however, others are Edmonton, Alberta T5J OH1 encouraged to apply. St. Thomas University is committed to employment equity for women, Native persons, members of visible minority groups and persons with disabilities. PAGE 16, MARCH 28 - APRIL 10, 1994, WINDSPEAKER MATERIAL CULTURE IN FLUX ake the preaching of the ]t, REPATRIATION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY Good News your lije's work!., A CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC LAW AND POLICY

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