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Memories of winters past Leah Pagett It's as if Father Time turned the clock back to a time when people lived in tipis surrounded by natural beauty. Alas, this particular tipi is surrounded by a chain -link fence and set off by park benches. But isn't that what New Year's is for, a time to reflect on the past and look forward to the future?

To receive Windspeaker in your mailbox every two weeks, just Peltier not recommended for parole send your cheque or money order said. in the amount of $28 (G.S.T. By D.B. Smith man Cliff Young said. The 48- year -old Lakota- mittee Lisa Faruolo -Peltier Dakota "It was a difficult blow to take. included) to: Windspeaker Staff Writer Original jurisdictionhearings Chippewas from North involve a case review by all five first went to the reservation in But we're putting out the word. WINDSPEAKER parole commissioners. Three of 1975 with the American Indian We'll keep working on it." 15001- 112 AVENUE LAWRENCE, Kan. the commission's seats are cur- Movement to protect the reser- The defense committee will EC" ' ' ' ^ERTA rently vacant, Young said. But vations "full -bloods," those who continue to petition U.S. Presi- American political prisoner the two remaining commission- supported traditional ways, from dent Bill Clinton to commute Leonard Peltier may be eligible ers could still recommend an ear- tribal council chairman Dick Peltier's sentence, she said. The NA for parole. lier release. Wilson and his goon squads. group is also planning a march But it could be more than a There was no rationale for Two other AIM members on Washington, D.C. next June. decade before he's consideredfor the examiners' decision, Peltier's were also charged in the shoot- Clinton has indicated he's release. lawyer Ramsey Clark said. The ing deaths of the FBI agents. But aware of Peltier's plight. While In a mid- December parole two men acknowledged Peltier's Bob Robideau and Dino Butler campaigning in Florida last fall, hearing at Leavenworth Prison, excellent prison record but rec- argued self- defense and were he said he would consider com- two examiners from the federal ommended further incarceration acquitted. muting the sentence. parole commission recom- "in light of the crime." There was no evidence pre- Peltier has appealed his guilty mended Peltier not be consid- "It's rather remarkable that sented at Peltier's parole hearing verdict three times. The most re- ered for parole for an additional two people who are not judicial other than a few "thin' files from cent, filed in November 1992, was 15 years. officers, with no experience... the prison bureau, Ramsey said. dismissed July 17, 1993 after a The parole examiners' recom- could say 'come back and see us An FBI agent from the Kansas three -judge panel from the 8th mendations were before regional in 15 years'. It's a cruel way to City regionalofficeaddressed the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals all parole commissioner Carol treat someone's life." examiners. ruled Peltier's due process was Pavilack-Getty at press time. Peltier to two But he had no personal not violated during his trial. :s was sentenced Pavilack -Getty can either concurrent life sentences in 1976 knowledge of the case and only A 1991 appeal to have the $40 ptions validate that decision or call for for the murder of federal agents commented on the "tragedy of trial switched toa different judge da an original jurisdiction hearing Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, the loss of life of the agents." was also denied. to recommend an earlier parole who were shot to death during a Peltier was upset at the news, Peltier's 1986appeal fora new L hearing date or an outright re- fire fight on the Pine Ridge Res- his fiancé and head of the trial was denied. See Appeal, page 3 PUBLICATION MAIL REGISTRATION S2177 lease, parolecommission spokes- ervation in South Dakota. Leonard Peltier Defense Com- PAGE 2, JANUARY -3 - JANUARY 16, 1994, WINDSPEAKER Year in Review Funding cuts, Davis In et JANUARY nor the province moved in to remove them. Police seize gambling equipment JUNE Relations between bands in Manitoba and that province deteriorated at the beginning of the Natives lobby UN for recognition year following a raid by RCMP and Dakota- Native leaders gathered in Vienna, Austria in Ojibway tribal council police on five reserves to earlyJune to lobby the confiscate gambling equipment RCMP and United Nations to DOTC officers raided the Roseau River, Sandy change the wording of Bay,Waterhen,Pine Creek and FortAlexander its human rights Reserves, seizing 48 unlicenced video lottery legislation. The "s" in terminals ,twoblackjacktablesandbreakopen the term "Indigenous tickets. peoples"wasremoved from the fourth draft Davis Inlet makes world press of the UN's Vienna The tiny community of DavisInlet,Nfld. made Declaration for States world headlines after two groups of children at the request of the were discovered high on gasoline fumes and Canadiangovernment village's tribal at meetings in April. screaming about suicide by the Bob Epstein police.Ottawa and the Newfoundland BobEpstein,anadviser governments promised immediate aid in the to the Grand Council lobbied to form of clean drinking water and proper of the Crees of Quebec, said Ottawa housing to the beleaguered community of 500 have the term changed because under several Innu. Relocating the village, located 300 km Barb Grinder other international ordinances, a 'peoples 'have rights to land and resources that "people" don't north of Goose Bay, to the mainland was also purchase of a buffalo herd by newly elected Blood Chief Harley Frank The Affairs promised. A total of 18 youths, one as young as caused trouble from the start. A scuffle ensued in March between members of have. A spokesperson from External four-years-old, were eventually airlifted to a the Buffalo Women's Society and men opposed to the purchase when trucks said the term was changed because it could treatment centre near Edmonton, Alta. containing the herd were escorted onto the reserve. The issues raised by the give unqualified sovereignty to Indigenous herd's purchase still have not been resolved. people. Ottawa would prefer to negotiate new FEBRUARY rights through standard bilateral negotiations equipment and arrested three band members. when several Native communities mounted and not through an international document, Natives blamed for fish shortages The casino eventually reopened in April, but fiery roadblocks in protest over the province's Denis Boulet said. The Assembly of First Nations put the without the video lottery terminals. The band move to apply its sale tax to purchases made by Department of Fisheries and Oceans on notice was also required to split the gambling profits Indians. Natives and non -Natives clashed in New territory ratified that Natives would no longer be sidelined by with the province and a local exhibition viol entconfrontationacrosstheprovinceduring The Inuit of the Northwest Territories became Ottawa over fishing rights. Grand Chief Ovide association. the firstweekend ofApriL ByApril l0,however, the largest land owners in Canada in June Mercredi told a gathering of 150 chiefs in the Union of New Brunswick Chiefs said the when Parliament ratified their Tungavik Ottawa that a united front in resources was the Windspeaker first to go national blockades would come down because the Federation of Nunavut'sland claim.Under the direct only path to a better life. Killing First Nations Windspeaker was thecentreofinediaattention provincehaddarified itsstand.NewBrunswick federal agreement, the Inuit receive resources is tantamount to killing Natives, during its 10th anniversary celebrations as it would only taxpurchases thatwere not bought, ownership of 353,610 square kilometres oflan d, Mercredi said. Hiscommentscameinthewake became Canada's only national Aboriginal delivered to, consumed or used on reserves. anarealargerthanNovaScotia ,NewBrunswick of continued allegations from B.C.'s Fisheries news publication. The March 29 debut issue But subsequent meetings between union and Prince Edward Island combined. They Survival Coalition that Native fisheries in B.C. saw the bi-weekly tabloid's distribution soar to officials and the province failed to work out a also receive 36,257 square kilometres of were responsible for depleted salmon stocks in more than 43,000 copies nation -wide. The feasible taxation system. subsurface rights, a cash pay -out of $1.4 billion 1992. expanded national /regional news format was over 14 years and a percentage of resource praised by readers and media critics alike as a royalties. The territorieswould also be divided Band ousts chief over gambling positive and long overdue move for the Native in half, creating the new territory of Nunavut, Chief Lawrence Henry of the Roseau River press in Canada. The Aboriginal Multi Media which means "our land." The 17,500 Inuit in the Reservewas ousted byaunanimousvote of Society of Alberta's flagship newspaper also area will form their own government in 1999. band's Custom Council for expelling the became the first Native publication to join the Dakota-Ojibway tribal council police from his Canadian Magazine Publishers' Association. JULY reserve. The vote came in the wake of a petition, signed by more than half of the reserve's APRIL Micmac Nation recognized residents, calling for Henrys resignation. The premier of Nova Scotia recognized the Relationsbetweenthechiefandthecommunity Treaty chiefs splinter from AFN Micmacpeopleasanationand said theyshould soured after Henry exiled the police from the Treaty Indians, dissatisfied with their be dealtwith as such The relationship between reserve for their participation Man RCMP raid representation in the AFN, met in Alberta to try the province and the Micmac would be on the band's casino in January. Peacekeepers and form their own organization. The United conducted on a nation-to-nation level, Premier from the Anishnabe O- kii -ji.da WarriorSociety Treaty FirstNations Council would serve asan John Savage said during a speech before the took over the policing of the reserve but many instrument for bi-lateral treaty negotiations 24th annual assembly of Nova Scotia chiefs in band members were not happy with the move. with the Crown. Many of the treaty chiefs were Dartmouth July 7. 'These are not discussions unhappy with the AFN because only a third of between a government and the citizens MARCH the assembly's 600 chiefs are treaty Indians. governed. These are negotiations between nations," Savage said. Native reaction to the Funding cuts bleed programs High Arctic exiles tell of despair premier'scommentwasenthusiastic "It was so Ottawa confirmed it would slash funding for A group of 35 Inuit told a special sitting of the good I kept expecting to hear him say 'April Native economic development programs. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples that Fools'," said Union ofNova Scotia Indians head Finance Minister Don Mazankowski slashed Ottawa lied to them in the 1950's when it Alex Christmas. 'To negotiate as equals is 10 per cent from Ottawa's friendship centre promises abetter life in the High Arctic Several something we've always aspired to." It is funding and the Northern Native Broadcast of the Inuit told heart-wrenching stories of the Ron George unlikely however, thatNatives in the province Access program. Indian Affairs also cut its loneliness, starvation and death that resulted will feel any impact from Savage's comments share of community economic development when federal officials moved 14 families from MAY before the end of the year. fundingby$20 million. AFNvice- ChiefJerome their homes in northern Quebec and the eastern Morin said the cuts only pushed the NWT to remote Ellesmere Island. When the Native parliament suggested Blood saga continued government's commitment to Natives even Inuit got there, they found nothing but barren Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon raised The Blood band council was ordered to appear further out of wack Manitoba also slashed beaches of gravel, the commission was told. eyebrows across Canada when he suggested in Federal Court in September to answer grant fundingfor56Native organization across One group that was sent to Resolute Bay Natives might consider their own parliament contempt of court charges for a June 30 the province by $3 million that month. survived by scavenging in a community asanextsteptowardssecuringself-govemment. byelection held to replace Chief Harley Frank. garbage dump. Although it would not be a parliament in the The byelection violated a Federal Court order Blood council protest bison purchase traditional sense, the political body would upholding Frank's right to stay in office until at What was to be an historic celebration turned Chartered Land Act thre atens reserve consist of Native politicians administering leastNov.2. Roy Fox,who served as chief for 12 into an angry confrontation on the Blood lands Native programs, he said. The suggestion was years before being defeated by Frank in Reserve when a group of protesters blocked a Native leaders across Canada expressed their met with skepticism by Native leaders November 1992, was re- elected in the highway to keep two truckloads of bison from outrage over a piece of legislation designed to everywhere. Ron George of the Native Council byelection. Some band members said only entering the reserve. Chief Harley Frank had give bands greater control over reserve lands. of Canada said the idea only showed how far approximately 14 per cent of the band's 3,955 purchased the 84 animals for almost 5100,000 But the First Nations' Chartered Land Act removed the federal government is from the eligible voters cast ballots. The dispute dates in an attempt to get the band's economy back could result in the loss of lands if bands got into realities of Native life. back to March when Frank bought a buffalo on track But several band council members, financial trouble, members of the Union of B.C. herd which council claims was not authorized led by former chief Ray Fox, said the band's $3 Indian Chiefs and the AFN said. The act, Saskatchewan protesters defy by them. It escalated to the point the reserve million debt was too high already and barred designed by a group of seven chiefs from eviction was in turmoil, with band members afraid to Frank from his own office. acrossCanada ,metwithconsiderableresistance A year-old roadblock by a group called the speak out fearing retaliation. whenpresented toOntariochiefs a fewmonths Protectors of Mother Earth remained in effect RCMP raid Saskatchewan casino later.Mostwereconcemed theactwasacloaked on a logging road near Meadows Lake, Sisk AUGUST Employees of the Bear Claw Casino on the move by Ottawa to eliminate its fiduciary despite a court order to leave the area. The White Bear Reserve thought they were being obligations to the First Nations and steal back protesters, led by the Sakaw Aski Elders said New minister bumbles first visit robbed when masked gunmen burst into the reserve lands. they decided to hold their ground in the stand Kim Campbell might have won the casino in the wee hours of March 22. But the against clear-cutting in the region even if it Conservative party leadership in June, but her gunmen turned out to be the RCMP in yet NB Natives protest sales tax meant being arrested. The group had been on appointee to the Indian affairs ministry won another raid on an unlicenced reserve -based Hugebonfireslit up the nightskiesand scorched the roadblock for over a year when the court over few admirers at her first press conference casino. Police confiscated all of the ,casino's sections of highway across New Brunswick ordertoleavewasissued .Neitherjusticeofficials in Coppermine,NWT. Pauline Browes told an

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assembly of Native leaders, provincial and Bill C -31, the 1985 amendment to the Indian halls, the Government of the Northwest territorial officials that she supports the Act that reinstated status for some Indians, Territories finally has its own home. The new extinguishment of Aboriginal rights as a got underway in Edmonton, Alta. Sept. 20. NWT legislature building in Yellowknife condition of settling land daims. She also said Canadian Senator and Sawridge Band Chief opened its doors to the people of the North the federal government does not recognize Walter Twinn lead the challenge by three and honored guests in a flurry of pomp and Natives' inherent right to self-government Alberta bands. Bill C -31 reinstated Indian ceremony Nov. 17. 'This is a truly unique Members of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and status to thousands of Natives - many of experience," House Speaker Michael the AFN walked out of the meeting, outraged them women who lost their status after Ballantyne said. "In this country, you have a that Ottawa had apparently retreated from its marrying non- Natives. When the bill passed, greater chance of seeing a total eclipse of the commitment to Natives. Ottawa put thousands of names back on sun than you do of seeing the opening of a new band lists. But Twinn maintains only bands legislative building." This was only the third Clayoquot chiefs lobby U.S. have the right to determine membership. legislative building to open in Canada this Native leaders from Clayoquot Sound invited The trial, which heard testimony from century, he said. The last, in Nunavut, will U.S. environmental lawyerRobertKennedyJr. dozens of witness for the government, open in 1999. along fora weekend tour of the temperate rain Twinn, and interveners from the Native forest around Tofino, B.C. The chiefs from the Council of Canada (Alberta), was riddled Chiefs visit UK for treaty support fivelocalbands were threatening toboycottthe with controversy. Twinn told the court Bill A trip to London, England by a group of 1994CommonwealthGantesin Victoria,B.C.if C -31 jeopardized the economic, social and Treaty Six chiefs to lobby the province didn't take their concerns over a political welfare of his band. Several support from the British land daim settlement seriously. Led by Chief witnesses for the defense were reduced to government proved Francis Frank of the Clayoquot First Nation, tears by Twinn's lawyer. Shortly before more successful than the group told the province they want to claim moving to Ottawa for the second half of the expected. The delegation the land around the sound, including parts of trial, Justice Frank Muldoon ordered the of25chiefsfromWestern Pacific Rim National Park. The chiefs later took RCMP to investigate allegations that Twinn's Canada won the support their fight south of the border to lobby officials wife had pressured certain witnesses to not of 10 British MPs and at the United Nations and Washington,D.C.in Harley Frank testify. lords in their fight with support of an international boycott of British Ottawa over treaty Columbia forest products. The group spent location for the community, Chief Katie Rich OCTOBER recognition,Beaverlake approximately 90 minutes discussing the said. But getting the rest of the vil lage there was Chief Alphonse Alphonse boycott with UN officials. The delegates also proving difficult Relocation negotiations with Candidates ignore Native issues Lameman said. The Lameman traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with the province had gone badly all spring until Native leaders From across Canada blasted House of Lords agreed federal lobbyists, Frank said. Robert Kennedy Newfoundland representativesfinallywalked prime ministerial candidates for not to form an all-party committee on Aboriginal Jr. hosted their meeting with his uncle, away from the talks in May. Premier Clyde discussing Native issues such as self- peoples and advance a motion in Parliament Democratic parry Senator Ted Kennedy. Wells said he refused to deal any further with government, education and health care calling upon the British and Canadian the Innu because the community would only during their campaign. Prime Minister Kim governments to endorse a conference on Cree toddler stays in B.C. be moving all their social problems to Sango Campbell virtually ignored Natives, issuing Indian treaties. "I was really delighted that we A British Columbia court ruled a part-Cree Bay. Rich said the Innu should be allowed to only a brief policy statement through her achieved this much because we are usually baby from Alberta would stay with his white make their own minds up about where they press office. The Liberals and the NDP spent hitting ourselves against a brick wall so many adoptive family in B.C., not his natural mother want to live. Reports issued later by an more time on Native issues towards the end years now," Lameman said.' Thi s time around whotriedtorevokeherconsenttotheadoption. independent researcher and the Canadian of the campaign. Jean Chrétiens Liberals I think we made some headway." The group Thedecisionreversedanearfierruling that said Human Rights Commission both concluded issues a comprehensive, 20 -page policy also spoke at several university gatherings the child had bonded with his mother, Teena the Innu had a right to self- determination and statement. NDP leader Audrey McLaughlin during their eight-day trip through central Sawan, in the two months before the adoption. thatthe provincial govemmentwascontinuing spoke at several gathering on the need to England. The treaty chiefs spoke to students The lower court had earlier ruled the blond - to act in bad faith. deal with Native self-government Leaders from the universities of Oxford, Leeds and haired, blue -eyedboy,whoisone- quarterCree, from the AFN, NCC and the Union of B.C. Manchester before meeting with would be better off with his mother to learn First Nation react to comic gaff Indians said Chrétienwasthe most informed parliamentarians Nov. 25. about his Native heritage. That judge had Furor over a racist comment in a widely- leader, although none were particularly grantedSawan custody,but theboy'sadoptive distributed comic book spread quickly from a impressed with any of the candidates. DECEMBER mother, Faye Tearoes, went into hiding with boycott in Alberta to outrage in the nation's thechildwhileaskingforanappeaLTheTearoes' capital. Ron George of the NCC said he was Violence mounts over smuggling PQ talks Native self- government were granted interim custody. The B.C. Appeal appalled at the "John Wayne mentality" in Cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence Quebec'sNative affairsminister told the Royal Court panel of threejudgesruled unanimously Archie Comic's Jughead Double Digest No. River at Comwall,Ont. escalated in early fall, Commission on Aboriginal Peoples that his to keep the boywith die Tearoes' astheir family 19, in which the character of Reggie said he did as did the accompanying violence. 'Traders" province must address Native issues before bond was stronger than the mother's. not want to "go Native" lest he "sink to the from the United States,Montreal and eastern tensions between Aboriginals and non - depth of degradation and despair." Reggie Ontario, and some Natives from the Aboriginals escalate. "Relations between SEPTEMBER was also concerned about becoming "a Akwesasne Reserve on the international Nativesand non - Natives are worrisome,both sniveling, snarling animal;' with "no pride" border were moving up to $50,000 in illegal for the Quebec government and for the Davis Inlet kids go home - almost and "no sense of decency." The comic also tobacco past Canadian Customs officials population as a whole," Minister Christos After six months of addiction counselling in drew the ire of Alberta minister of social every day. Gun shots on the river, bombings Sirros said. 'There is an urgent need to act Alberta, 17 children from the troubled services Mike Cardinal, who wrote a letter to in the town of Cornwall and gun battles because the residents of a number of Native community of Davis Inlet went home, but not Archie Publications in New York demanding between rival smugglers became a fact of life communities are being held hostage and the to their village. The youths, who were flown to an apology. The comic's chairman and for residents in the area. Tensions mounted social climate has become intolerable. the Poundmaker's Lodge in Alberta for publisher,Michael J. Silberkleit,laterwrotean between Cornwall Mayor Ron Martelle and Moreover, Quebecers are becoming... more intensivesolventaddictiontherapyand sexual apology, saying there was no intent to offend some Natives on the reserve after Martelle and more mistrustful of the Native people." assault counselling in January, were taken toa and that the story would not be run again. supposedly referred to them as being Natives and the Quebecoise are inevitably wilderness camp in Sango Bay, 15 kilometres "savages" and the chief instigators of the bound to each other and the province must fromthevillage ,shortlyaftertheirretumhome. C-31 trial gets under way violence. Martelle denied making the recognize the conflicts, such as the 1990 Oka The Sango Baysite is the preferred resettlement The four -month constitutional challenge of allegations but members from the Mohawk crisis, as they arise, he said. The minister also Warrior Society said it was too late to fix proposed the province develop a series of relations. A warrior society spokesman said practical measures aimed at improving living they had no policy on the smuggling, conditions in Native communities, especially although many Mohawks said the trade in the areas of health, justice and economic confirmed their right to move goods freely development. across the international border. B.0 considers talks with Natives NOVEMBER As the year closed, the British Columbia government considered holding private talks B.0 justice inquiry released with Natives to address concerns over the Natives have not been well served by the expansion of a hydroelectric project in the non -Native justice system, the long- awaited northwest section of the province. The Carrier Cariboo- Chilcotin Justice Inquiry concluded. Sekani Tribal Council previously boycotted The "reactive" attitudes of local RCMP the B.C. Utilities Commission's public hearings towards Natives, combined with the over completion of the Alcan Kemano Project ignorance of the Canadian justice system of on the Nechako River. But provincial Native Aboriginal cultures, created a clash where Affairs Minister John Cashore said in early Natives lose out, head commissioner and December the NDP government might Judge Anthony Sarich said. "It wasn't just a attempt to reach an interim agreement police problem, it was a problem with the resolving Native concerns about potential whole justice system -an attitudinal problem,' environmental and economic impacts of the he said. Although the report criticized the expansion. The tribal council had already met justice system in general, Sarich focused on with a provincial negotiator to establish the role of the RCMP. "There were "government -to- government interim talks;' unquestionably some members of the RCMP tribal council coordinator Rick Krehbiel said. who used excessive force and intimidation The terms of reference for the discussions, against Native people," he said. The RCMP which began Nov. 7, were too narrow for the About 400 angry Aboriginals marched on the Tory leadership convention in had no immediate comment on the report. tribal council's participation to haveanyaffect, Ottawa June 12 to make their voices heard. Led by Native Council of Canada he said. The commission also didn't address president Ron George, the off -reserve Natives wanted to make the delegates NWT opens legislature building the extent of damage done bytheprojectinthe aware they paid taxes and voted and it was time for them to stand up and be and salmon runs on the counted.. After years of conducting official business in 1950's to flooded land ... school gymnasiums,' hotels And community Neeha4rand Fraser.Rivers 16, 1994, WINDSPEAKER PAGE 4, JANUARY 3 - JANUARY Our Opinion Mistrust between Aboriginals and non - Natives persists

The International Year of the World's Indigenous Peoples wrapped up last month without much fanfare by Ottawa. In fact, the whole event went virtually un- noticed by the federal govern- ment. It hasn't had much positive impact on the First Nations, either. A couple of news stories from last month provide the chief reason why. The first involved the tiny Innu community of Davis Inlet, Nfld. The community's leaders gathered in the village's church hall Dec. 20 to welcome the new minister of Indian affairs on his first The official tour of the remote and impoverished community. minister never showed up. News of an alleged riot between Innu youths and local RCMP which occurred a few days earlier apparently frightened Minister Ron Irvin off his trip. RCMP reported an angry mob had driven a provincial justice out of the village and then attacked a police building, allowing five Innu prisoners to escape. Chief Katie Rich gave a slightly different version. She said an angry mob told the justice he could not hold court in their territory building was by snowball- so he left. The attack on the police Illustration by Don Kew wielding children. And the prisoners simply went home to the village. Irwins no -show suggests the brand new minister is firmly fixed in Ottawa's age -old mistrust of Natives. He never bothered to Remembering all our relations call Chief Rich to ask what was really going on. When she tried to reach him, she could only get as far as one of his assistants. If Irwin The influence of patriarchy had taken the call, he would have learned that the incident with the (more than any other colonial judge and the police had dissolved a lot of tension and solidified the imposition), so deeply imbedded spirit of the community. Instead, he simply failed to show up. in our families, communities, and The other major news story involved Native political prisoner nations, discourages Native peo- Leonard Peltier. His parole hearing in Kansas came and went last ple's quest for self -government. month but the Lakota -Chippewas is still behind bars. Despite Patriarchy, or male centered admissions of falsified extradition papers, invented witness affida- power, creates imbalance and vits and coerced testimonies, the non -Native justice system still disharmony within our selves, requires Peltier to be guilty. It needs a scapegoat. But that need goes homes, communities, and na- courts' requirement for a guilty party. That need pre- the the know empts the possibility that the courts were wrong to jail Peltier in the Elders remind us in prayer, cer- to erase countless generations of When someone wanted to first place. emony,andcelebration arepara- my maternal relations. who I was they merely inquired Many Native activists, including Peltier's white lawyer, be- mount in our quest to govern Following the Department's "who isyour mother." If theywere lieve that reluctance to admit error and release him hinges on ourselves. lead, the Catholic church, repre- unfamiliar with my mother's Peltier being Native. Being expendable and Indian often appear Native women's autonomy sented at the time of my birth by name, Chi Fille, they'd ask "well, [Grand- synonymous in the realm of the non -Native justice system. Just ask - in her home, community, and nuns who named me Mary (just who is your Koochum the LaChance family in Debden, Sask. or most Native folk in nation -has been eroded through like my previous three sisters), mother].' As a result of being strongly indoc- Williams Lake, B.C. very powerful forces. Over the flexed its patriarchal muscles by brought up and The white justice system needs some one, needs an Indian, to years, those forces have stealing my mother's right to trinated in the colonial patriarchy peo- pay for the deaths of two FBI agents. It appears the majority of devastatingly impacted on wom- name her children. Furthermore, however I, like other Native from people, American and Canadian, are willing to accept that notion. en's lives through institutions like when I went to residential school ples, have been discouraged Some may express their outrage but most will not call the White the government, laws, churches, my identity was constructed by honoringandcelebratingourcon- House asking for a presidential pardon. So Peltier stays in jail. ' schools, and the media. authorities who privileged my nection to our mothers' history. in The end of 1993 marks the close of a difficult year for Natives My first contact with patriar- father's history over my moth- Thus, our mother's influence, here in Canada, too. Despite an international year to further chal power was at birth when the er's. Subsequently, maternal fam- relation to our sense of self, has understanding around the world, or the efforts of the Royal Com- intrusive "Registration of Live ily connections seemed to disap- become insignificant. mission on Aboriginal Peoples here at home, there is still an Birth of An Indian" was stamped pear from one generation to the I am most distressed how- ingrained mistrust between Natives and non -Natives in Canada. at the top of my birth certificate. next. When I asked my mom ever because our own people al- But this political mood must not be taken as a signal that we To me, that "Indian" label trau- questions about her family, I only low patriarchal power to intrude should stop trying to close this rift. There's no denying that the matically altered the course of my saw pain and sadness in her eyes. upon our relations with each Canadian government fails to consider First Nations concerns as life for it was at that point that the Anyone who grew up in a other. Think long and hard about we would have them do. But the obligation to make Ottawa Department of Indian Affairs first Native community knows that how we continue to allow our recognize Aboriginal rights is as much our responsibility as it is imposed its patriarchal authority women are the centre of our cul- sense of self to be determined by theirs. on my life. The Department con- tures. Previous to residential Euro-Canadian laws instead of 1994 is a new year. structed my so-called Indian iden- school,myidentitywasintricately our own ways, according to our Let's use it. tity and in that process attempted connected to my female relations. connection to all our relations.

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ALTA, U.S.A., QUE National Aboriginal Cheeko Desjarlais ONT, MARITIMES, NWT Canadian Magazine Publishers Association ' PUBLICATION MAIL REGISTRATION #2177 Publisher: Bert Crowfoot WINDSPEAKER, JANUARY 3 - JANUARY 16, 1994, PAGE 5 News Indian Affairs minister a no -show in Davis Inlet By D.B. Smith with the chief and see the condi- encircled Provincial Justice Robert While she did not actually see Windspeaker Staff Writer tions in the community first -hand Hyslop's bench at the community the incident, Rich said there was but that it was inappropriate to go hall and told him that future court some pushing and shoving at the into the community of 500 "given circuits would not be allowed. airstrip as Hyslop left. When the DAVIS INLET, Nfld. the current situation." Rich said she led the delega- five remaining prisoners were let One of his assistants tel- tionwhichpresentedthejudgewith out of the patrol building for trans- Leaders in the impoverished ephoned Rich to request the meet- a letter condemning his court. port to Goose Bay, the crowd "took Innu community of Davis Inlet ing be moved to Goose Bay, 330 Hyslop threatened to charge them home." are outraged that Indian Affairs kilometres to the south. the group with contempt of court, RCMP reported the crowd of Minister Ron Irwin cancelled his The community met on Dec. she said. When the Innu refused to about 150 hum youth then vandal- meeting with Chief Katie Rich 19, however, and decided the con- budge, Hyslop excused himself to ized the patrol building by throw- without warning. ference should be held in the inlet, "make a quick phone call" and did ing logs and ripping lumber from A reception group waited for Rich said. not return. the porch. two hours at the villages church Irwin cancelled his visit after Several RCMP officers then Some children were throwing hall on the morning of Dec. 20 for RCMP reported a recent jurisdic- showed up and began removing snowballs at the buildi ng, Rich said. the new minister, Rich said. tion dispute between the villagers court documents. The lumber from the building's Word that he had cancelled his and provincial justice officials had The Innu gathered outside porch was taken to make a bonfire trip finally came six hours later in the turned violent when a group of the RCMP patrol building where for the gathering crowd. form of a press release that Indian Ron Irwin about 150Innu youths gathered and Hyslop and six Innu prisoners At one point, an RCMP officer Affairs faxed to the band office. I have no faith in any government. began throwing logs and lumber at were waiting to leave for Goose emerged, ripped the remains of "I have yet to meet the man," What else is new ?" the RCMP's patrol building Dec. 16. Bay, said Rich. The judge eventu- one railing off and took it back into Rich said. "From what I have seen, Irwin said he was anxious to The alleged riot erupted after ally left the community with one the building to keep it from being and I have said this a long time ago, discuss health and safety concerns a group of 25 Innu, led by Rich, prisoner. used as firewood. Parole Trial may determine Native fishing rights By D.B. Smith by the Micmac Nations and the treaty. A mid -1980s decision by ward to being at the centre of atten- Windspeaker Staff Writer British authorities of the time, rep- the Supreme Court of Canada tion again. appeal resents the only written recogni- ruled theMicmac'shuntingrights But a decision in his favor tion of the Micmacs' traditional under the 1752 treaty were still could have far- reaching effects. ANTIGONISH, NS. right to fish outside federal juris- valid, allowing them to hunt out Tensions between Native and non- diction, Zscheile said. side provincial jurisidiction. Native fishermen are running high pending The trial of oneMicmac fisher- Marshall was charged this past This latest case will focus on this year, especially with last man scheduled for next summer fall by Fisheries officials with fish- thecommercial aspect of the docu- spring's closing of the East Coast Continued from page 1. could determine the course of Na- ing without a licence, fishing out of ment. fishery. Appeal court judge tive fishing rights in the Maritimes. seasonandfishingwiththeintentto Marshall is not new to contro- Several Native fishing boats Gerald Heaney ruled the The outcome of Donald sell the catch. versy. The 39- year -old Micmac is were vandalized and some even original trial record left no Marshall's trial on charges of ille- IfthecourtupholdsMarshall's renowned for initiating reforms set ablaze last summer by those doubt that the jury accepted gal fishing will hinge on the valid- treaty right, it would mean the within the province's justice sys- who see the Native right to fish the government's theory ity of the 1752 Treaty of Peace and Micmac could catch and sell fish tern after serving 11 years for a outside federal jurisdiction as un- that Peltier had personally Friendship, Confederacy of Main- without a licence. murder he did not commit. fair. killed the two wounded land Micmac lawyer Eric Zscheile This is not the first time the Although he recognizes the A trial date has been set for agents by shooting them at said. confederacy has gone to court to importance of treaty rights, June 6. The confederacy agreed to point -blank range with an The treaty, which was signed defend their rights under that Marshall said he is not looking for- pick up Marshall's legal costs. AR-15 rifle. Heaney, now a senior First Nations judge with the 8th circuit Treaty commission swamped by anxious court, later wrote a letter territories. urging then -President VANCOUVER ious to get moving and get mov- Alberta in the 1890s. traditional Treaties between the Crown Filing the notices was only George Bush to consider ing very quickly." First Nations tradition - the first step in a six -step proc- commuting Peltier's prison First Nations in British Co- The commission, which was and the claims to ess. When the commission de- sentence. lumbia appear anxious to begin appointed last spring under an ally outlined territorial First things as land, hunting, fish - cides it has all the information it Peltier's case as a po- the treaty rights negotiations proc- agreement signed by the such rights, needs, it will arrange a meeting litical prisoner has also gar- ess. Nations Summit, the province ing and resource is to accom- Connaughan said. But these new between the province, the fed- nered a significant amount The B.C. Treaty Commission and Ottawa, trying argeements will have to cover eral government and the indi- of international support, was swamped with29 statements modate an "understandable" more. vidual First Nations. Ramsey said. The Peltier of intent to negotiate treaty rights frustration within the First Na- is Once a negotiation process defense committee has col- Dec.15, its first day of operation, tions, he said. "In our system, everything by band and tribal councils from "Were catching up to every- on the table; governance, hunt - is agreed to, a treaty can be lected more than one mil- enacted. signatures world- across the province. body else in the country." ing, land compensation, all of that. worked out, ratified and lion to work The commission's role is to wide. And another seven First Na- Most First Nations in B.C. It's up to the government it out." help the process along without committee is peti- tions governments had submit- are without treaties. When the The The re- actually negotiating on anyone's tioning supporters to tel- ted their notices by press time province entered Confederation commissioners the majority of submis- behalf. ephone the White House Dec. 21. in 1871, the only treaties in effect viewed Dec. 16 and 17. Applica- The commission will also in Washington, D.C. at 202- "There were no surprises in werethel4agreementsonsouth- sions tions outlined issues such as channel funding to First Nations -1111 to ask for Peltier's terms of the numbers," Chief em Vancouver Island, covering 456 constituen- from the federal and provincial release pending the parole Commissioner Chuck about 358 square miles. Native government types of government governments to prepare for the commission's decision. Connaghan said. "We had indica- Part of Treaty Eight was later cies, the tions that people were very anx- extended into northern B.C. from and the locations and sizes of negotiations.

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By Norma Ramage she says. bridges in the mountain national 'Then I got my marks back and parks. She also consults on struc- CALGARY they were right up there." tural work on a variety of Parks At the end of her first year in Canada buildings in Western W hen pressed, Kare n Decontie, Ottawa she made the school's honor Canada. P. Eng., admits it is sometimes diffi- roll. Despite her high marks and her She is currently completing her cult - and tiring - to be a role determination to succeed, she says master's degree in structural engi- model. now that it wasn't always easy. neering at the University of Calgary Then she smiles and tells you "I thought about quitting. Once "because I would like to stay in the that it is also important to her to tell I even packed my suitcase and got technical field and because to de- otherNativewomenaboutherwork on the bus to go home. But then I sign large structures today you need as a structural engineer, and to en- asked myself what Iwas going back a master's degree." courage them in pursuing their own to, and the answer was 'not much'." She also spends more and career goals. When she graduated from high more time acting as spokeswoman "It's very difficult for Native school with an 88.8 average, she still and role model for Native people. women," says the soft-spoken 27- wasn't sure whether she wanted to Her involvement started more by year -old who works for Public be an engineer or an architect. She accident than from any plan on her Works Canada in Calgary. "I can chose the former because "I was part. People would call her up and give them encouragement and talk more into the math than the crea- ask her to speak to a group, and to them about some of the obstacles tive aspects. I think I made the right before long she was making pres- they will face." decision because I like building entationsas far awayasNewfound- Although she downplays the things. It's more concrete." land. obstaclesshe herself faced,Decontie She applied to the University of 'That was last year when I was says her decision to become an en- Toronto, Queen's and McGill. All the keynote speaker at the Women gineer met with opposition not only three accepted her, but she chose in Science and Engineering Confer- from non -Natives, but also from McGillbecause itwasdosertohome. ence in Grand Falls /Windsor. That some of her own people on the She remembers her days there was a real honor." Algonquin Reserve at Maniwaki, withfondness,although she admits When she participated in a re- Que. ` with a smile that "I was pretty cen- cent career fair at a reserve near Alta., says When I decided to go to uni- tred on work." A year after she Hobbema, Ms. Decontie versity to study engineering, the graduated, l4 womenwere gunned "itwasa very positive experience for people at home asked me why I was down at the Ecole Polytechnique in me." doing it. They told me we didn't Montreal. When the kids complained need engineers on the reserve and "I was shocked. When I was at about the number of years of school Hard work and a little bit of stubborness got Karen Decontie told that I could never come back home McGill, the atmosphere was open it took to be an engineer, she through engineering school. Here she's taking a break from and receptive to women." Nor did them,"intoday'sworld,ahighschool to work." her work on Parks Canada projects at Jasper. As she talks about the prob- she encounter any professional or education isn't going to get you the lems she faced, her voice remains me not too long ago that only three me more determined. But my Mom academic prej ud ice because she was things you want out of life." quiet and composed. But it's not per cent of women on reserves in and Dad know the other side of me, a Native. Talking to other Native peo- difficult to sense the strength and Saskatchewan ever graduate from the side that sometimes wants to "Maybe it's because Montreal ple is two-way stree t for Decontie. determination that helped her high school. I was shocked. give up. That's when they would is such a cosmopolitan city, and "When you grow up in a place like achieve success in a profession that "I think it's harder for Native get stubbom and ask me why I because there were so many foreign Maniwaki where your family has isn't always easy for any woman, women than it is for Native men. wanted to throw away all my hard students at the university from so lived for thousands of years, you by go- let alone a Native one. One of the reasons is that in the past work." many different cultures.Iwas never need to re- generate yourself "lthinklalwayswanted tobuild we had a culture imposed on us And it was hard work. It made to think aboutbeing a woman ing back to those roots. I can't come things," she says. "I remember when which discriminated against started when Decontie was 13 and or being a Native." home all the time, but I can re- to Native I was six I told my Mom I wanted to women and which encouraged she realized that to improve her Things were different when it charge myself by talking be an architect" Native men to discriminate against chances of reaching university, she came to summer jobs, as counsel- people here. I need that support." She believes her interest in women." would have to finish high school in lors in government Native assist- Once she completes her mas- time for a building things was a natural out - However, she credits much of Ottawa, 140 away. For ance programs ter's degree, it will be growthofa familytraditionofwork- her own success to a very important three years, she lived with her two into accepting clerical jobs. hard look at where her career is would like ing in construction. woman, her mother, a qualified brothers and "even riding a bus to "I told them no way. I wanted to going. Eventually she to "My father and my uncles all teacher and the first principal of the school was a major culture shock be an engineer and I wanted to do to move back to Quebec, closer worked in construction and in high reserve school. for someone who had always engineering work in the summer. I Maniwaki. '1 have a piece of land on the steel work. And when I was grow- "My Mom has respect, she's walked." just went out and found my own and I would like to have a ing up, I remember my Dad telling the head of her home. She's a very She also came face -to-face with jobs." reserve I do that me that all the barns and ware- independent woman who went to prejudice. One suchjobwithPublic Works home there. But know Ican't shrugs houses on the reserve were built by university and who told me I could "Thewomanwhoranmyboard- Canada led to her first position after in the immediate future. "She I have the my grandfather. And you know, no do anything I wanted if I worked ing house told me she usually didn't graduation, working with the de- and adds, 'That's OK to living matter how much snow we got, hard enough." take Native grls as boarde rs beca use partment in Hull, Que. Contacts career I want. I can adapt practise at none of those buildings ever col- Her father, who owns his own she thought they all got pregnant made there resulted in a transfer to anywhere. I've had a lotof lapsed." construction business, also encour- when they came to the city." She Calgary, to be dedicated to the Ca- adapting." Decontieknowstheeducational aged her to study engineering. pauses and adds without inflection, nadian Parks Service. (Republished with permission of of odds are stacked against Native "I'm pretty stubborn," she says, "She made an exception for me." As a structural engineer, The PEGG, the monthly publication Engi- women. her sudden smile lighting her face, Teachers and counsellors at her Decontie has built bridges on Van - the Association of Professional neers, Geologists & Geophysicists ofAl- "I don't know what the figures "and usually when people put ob- Ottawa high school "doubted" she couverlsland's WestCoastTrailand are for Maniwaki, but someone told stades in my way that just makes would ever make it to university, is now working on similar trail berta.) 'Pest Wishes for Christmas and the ,New Year to all ourfriends and customers

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A can income taxation guidelines un- Instinct is also what served of beans is a can of beans whether til Dec. 31, 1994, the Depart- him well while devis ing a grass- it's sitting on plywood or ment of Indian Affairs and roots solution to furthering the chrome." Northern Development an- economic self- sufficiency of First His fledgling company has nounced last week. Nations people. established lines of credit with The extension was granted "I knew we were paying several of the largest distribu- to allow those affected by the more than we should for the tors in the world. new legislation to "rearrange cost of things, so I started to It will be able to supply First their affairs if necessary." investigate the real prices. Nations retailers with bulk pur- The income tax exemptions, "There are too many middle chasing power for all products which were announced last has set up Northern Creek Enterpr;ses, most of Vincent McComber except tobacco, alcohol and fire- men. By getting rid of on to a larger March,applyonlyinsituations: which he hopes will help Native people hold arms. them, Native peo ple can get back chunk of the money they spend on non -Native goods and where the work is per- to what the prices really are," he services. This includes food products formed on a reserve. says. (fresh and tinned); dry goods; where the work is done McComber is getting rid of riginal people and organizations well as the success of Native audio and video equipment; primarily on a reserve and ei- the middle men by brokering in Canada spent approximately retailers on- reserve, depended computer hardware and soft- ther the Native employee or goods and services through a $21 million on goods and serv- entirely on volume of sales. Now ware; sporting goods and con- employer resides on the re- new bulk distribution business ices in 1990. (This extrapolation he knows that viability means struction materials. serve. that sells to distribution centres is based on all taxes paid by working 16 -hour days and trav- NCE utilizes the fact that where the work is done located on Native territories and status Indians - $4.27 billion in elling 40, 000 kilometres by car First Nations retailers are ex- off -reserve but the employee owned by Native people. 1990 - the amount estimated at to reserves from Iqaluit to Six empt from federal and provin- or employer resides on the re- Through his company, 20 per cent of total revenues). Nations and from Eskasoni to cial sales and excise taxes. They serve. 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I am beckoned by commitment I listen patiently to your woos ready to share your sorrow 1994 tranquillity my only ally My focus never sidetracked by fear my free spirit allowed to soar giving precedence to independence W-e *eait always backing justice and innocence. Empathetic to your feelings consoling is my intent a soul without virtue has not purpose. ete By Eugenia Last I AM THE DOG 1771777

The Dog is concerned with injustice. He is a worrier, ready to stand up for what's right. He is on the lookout for things to criticize and will never back down in situations that require gallantry. The pessimistic Dog will look for the negative and will expect nothing to be done properly. He will eagerly disagree with anyone who voices an opposing thought. He is relentless in his pursuit to make the world a better place to live. The Dog is the most loyal, faithful and honest of animals. Intent on performing whatever his task might be. He is an introvert by nature and will always feel the pains that others suffer. The Dog will be empathetic to those experiencing disasters, breakdowns, hunger or other distressing situations. The Dog will be the turning point for the existing problems that have been plaguing the world in general. Politically the year of the Dog will bring revolutions if serious changes aren't already being made. The Dog will stir up plenty of action in the political arena. A more liberal approach will win favors from the public. Those politicians ready to force their will, taking a few steps to the left, will gain ground. The Dog will help all the weak unite into a force much greater than those who have held the power for so long. Yes indeed, The Dog will bring justice to a world that desperately needs it. Aries (Mar 21 -Apr 19) This able to make changes that will will be a great year for the Ram help those less fortunate. Truly a to make residential moves. They creative and fruitful year for this will have an inner sense when it relentless sign. They can achieve comes to unusual investments. A their long -range goals and build time for Aries to go into business a solid base for their future. for themselves or expand the one Weight gain or over - indulgence they already have off the ground. may pose a problem. A year of hard work yes, but high Sagittarius (Nov 23 -Dec 21) returns as well. Limitations will surface at a per- Taurus (Apr 20 -May 20) sonal level if the Archer has been New and valuable connections ignoring all the complaints that can be made. An excellent year loved ones have vented. This dip- for travelling or learning. This lomatic sign will have to face the will be a time for new beginnings music and make changes if they and completions. It's out with the want to salvage that which they old and in with the new for this thought to be secure. A good year rather staid sign. Commitment for them to re- evaluate their own and stability can be the outcome motives. if the Bull will compromise. Capricorn (Dec 22 -Jan 19) Gemini (May 21 -June 21) This will be a period of change The Twins must put all their ef- for the Goat. Favorable results forts into getting ahead profes- will come through their hard work sionally. This will be their year to and, patience. They will gain sup- change career direction if they are port from those they least expect. dissatisfied with their present The confusion of the past will dis- course. Personal limitations will sipate and they will be able to get result if they ignore, neglect or back on track. This will be the leave out the ones who love them year for them to speak their piece. the most. Aquarius (Jan 20 -Feb 19) Cancer (June 22 -July 22) The Water- bearer must not force The Crab will enjoy the year of issues at a personal level. They are the Dog. This will be the time for best to avoid emotional confron- them to open up, to take part in tations. They will make their best groups and get involved in part- gains through creative endeavors nerships. These pursuits, in turn, that will lead to financial profits. will bring them greater knowl- will not be the time for them to Libra (Sept 23 -Oct 23) They will have insight into their edge. This will be a year that the fight back or try to initiate their Money will be the issue this year. career direction, but severely lack Crab can make changes that have beliefs. Opportunities will allow them to intuition with loved ones. been too difficult for them in the Virgo (Aug 23 -Sept 22) This move in professional directions Pisces (Feb 20 -Mar 20) past. will be a stabilizing year for the that should bring them greater sat- What a great time for the creative Leo (July 23 -Aug 22) Ex- Virgoan. They will have the op- isfaction and a higher earning po- Fish. They will accomplish their travagance will be the Lions portunity to speak their mind and tential. Too much work and no goals and develop their talents. downfall. Limitations will set in make a difference when it comes play will be Librans downfall. They can make personal changes if they have picked the wrong to solving problems. A wonder- Lack of attention to loved ones successfully this year. This will be friends or partners. These indi- ful year to get involved in part- will result in loneliness. a good period for them to start a viduals would be best to lie low nerships. They will be able to ask Scorpio (Oct 24 -Nov 22) family or do more with children. and try to conform to the circum- for favors and receive help from What a wonderful year for the Educational pursuits and travel stances that surround them. This those in a position of power. dedicated Scorpion. They will be will be enlightening. PAGE 14, JANUARY 3 - JANUARY 16, 1994, WINDSPEAKER Arts and Entertainment' Artist practises ancient art form

By Gina Teel fully selected," she said. "You have Windspeaker Correspondent to pick uniform scales - it's a lot of time -consuming work." Once sorted, Wabie dyes the EDMONTON scales either blue, green or red. Although she has used natural Dianna Wabie may practise dyes in the past, she now prefers an obscure Native art form, but clothing dye. she doesn't have any trouble find- "It works better," she said. ing materials. From there, the scales can either That's because her husband be sewn or glued into place. is a commercial fisherman. In keeping with traditional Wabie creates likenesses of Whitefish scale work, Wabie con- wild flowers using Whitefish centrates on floral patterns. scales and porcupine quills. The "I was told long ago that the school teacher and cattle farmer design inspirations came from from Lac La Biche, Alta. bases her things growing in the bush. That's work on an ancient art form used why I do the Alberta wild rose." by the Woodland tribes to deco- In addition to her Whitefish rate clothing. scale art, the multi -talented Wabie But instead of decorating carves jewelry out of deer and elk clothing, Wabie mounts and antler and bone, and makes fur frames her work, thus creating a mitts and mink fur brooches. unique piece of art. Her work is so "I have been exposed to Na- unique, in fact, that the Treaty 6 tive art forms all of my life. I re- Chiefs from her reserve recently member seeing things in my purchased two of them to take to grandparent's house like birch the Queen of England next spring. bark things and beaded things and While the art in itself is strik- I always thought they were neat." ing, the delicacy of the work is Gina Teel Wabie, who has degrees in politi- perhaps its most intriguing as- Dianna Wabie uses Whitefish scales to create her unique wild flower designs. cal science and Native studies, pect. The texture of the fish scale mounted on velvet and framed. for her art. they dry, some more than others. cuts and sands the bone jewelry flowers resemble live chrysan- Although Wabie dyes some of "Other fish scales are just "There is no control over curl- by hand, carving such intricacies themums. The uniformity of the her scales, the natural beauty of large," she said. 'Whitefish scales ing," she said. Once the scales are as a wild rose or a leaping stag. scales is the perfect, and rows of the unaltered scales makes for a come in small, medium and large." dry, Wabie sorts them to size, then Jewelry prices run from $12 'petals' are seamed invisibly to- stunning display against a black After her husband scales the again to grade of curl. This is to to $80. Her Whitefish scale pic- gether. The flowers, perched atop velvet background. fish, Wabie carefully washes and ensure consistency in her art. tures start at $125 and up, de- porcupine quill stems, are Wabie only uses Whitefish air dries them. The scales curl as "The scales have to be care- pending on their intricacy.

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By D.B. Smith producer and co- creator Barbara Windspeaker Staff Writer Samuels said. There are people there who cannot stop drinking, who have died or tried to com- BRAGG CREEK, Alta. mit suicide. "We wanted people to be Tom Jackson is in the foot- able to see something of them- hills of southern Alberta pre- selves that hadn't been shown tending to be in the Northwest on television before," she said. Territories. "We wanted people who had Standingjust off to the side of never seen that aspect of Abo- an airstrip tooshort fora real plane riginal communities to see it and to land on, he munches a sand- realize there were different wich in front of a camera while things going on." waiting for the director's cue. That particular vision of the Except for the length of the North - of a troubled commu- airfield, the scenery resembles nity re- shaping itself - has been any number of tiny Native com- criticized by some reviewers as munities north of the 60th paral- too bleak for television audi- lel. A small airplane sits next to a ences. But many northern Na- run -down Quonset hut. Little tives say they see a lot of them- buildings, some no more than selves and their communities in shacks, dot the area. Two big, each episode. pink fuel tanks marked "aviation "Teaching how to live or kerosene" squat near a satellite how things should be is not our dish pointed upwards and south. intention here," she said. "It's The sandwich disappears, just to explore what happens somebody yells "action," and when you throw abunchof char- Jackson slips momentarily north acters together in a small town." and into the life of Dene Band North of 60 may not be a Native Chief Peter Kenidi. D.B. Smith forum for advancing "Then we shouldn't be rights in Canada, but it has Tom Jackson munches lunch while waiting for the director's cue on the set of North of 60. spending $1,200a dayon a front - brought Jackson, and conse- end loader," he shouts at an better part of the noon -hour and fashion. It was not a criticism, it like getting to playa heroic char- quently Native issues, into the empty space off -camera. Pre- is dragging on too long into the was a compliment from the peo- acter. I don't find that to be the mainstream media. A string of tending to be in the NWT doesn't afternoon. The light is changing ple that watch the show." toughest thing in the world. I popular television movie roles look too easy on a warm winter quickly and the snow won't melt Set in a small Dene village think probably if I were to play and a recurring part on PBS's day when the mercury has on cue. in the southwest corner of the a villain, it might be a tougher children's' show Shining Time peaked well over the freezing After three more takes, NWT, North of 60 reflects two thing, personally, for me to do. Station have also helped put the mark and the set crew are slowly Jackson retires to his dressing world views, where north meets Technically, as an actor, I think 45- year -old from the One Ar- stripping off layers of jackets room. It is one of the few long south and the Native and non - Peter is a pretty interesting guy." row Reserve near Batoche, Sask., and sweaters to keep from over- breaks the Winnipeg -based ac- Native worlds constantly clash. Now in its second season, into the limelight. heating. tor gets. But he doesn't mind Breathing life into the Lynx North of 60 offers Jackson more But he takes little credit for "We shouldn't be spending hard work, particularly when River chiefs character each week of a chance to explore Kenidi the new insurgency of Native a penny until the tender is ap- it's this honest. is something that Jackson en- and his role in the community issues in the entertainment in- proved," someone replies. "Mybelief, based on the feed- joys. Having "dined with the than last year, when the show dustry. "The tender is a formality. back that I've gotten from peo- prince and the pauper," it's easy revolved around new RCMP "I don't think I'm the leader We cannot afford to lose the ple, particularly in the North... is to find the energy to create a Constable Eric Olssen (John of the pack although in some winter..." that the show is true to form," he realistic character. Oliver) and his struggle to fit in. small, minute way, I accept the Somebody yells cut. Shoot- said. 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It's store's early hours. ten they carry an higher alcohol "It's a risk reduction A man also easier to shoplift a bottle ap- walks into a Winni- concentration than products of hair spray than a bottle of proach," Blasetti says. "The goal peg drugstore and searches the regulated for consumption. wine." is to get people who used to shelves for rubbing alcohol. The study reports that an drink NBAs early in the morn- Unable to find any, he asks the estimated 10 -15 per cent of 'Skid ing off of them - Evelyn Kohlman, manager of and onto bever- pharmacist where he might find Row' alcoholics are NBA users. Edmonton's AADAC age alcohol." Some people are it. He says he needs it to nurse In comparison to other alcohol- Recovery Centre chronic drinkers and alcohol an injured leg. ics, people who regularly ingest regulated for consumption is the Convinced the man isn't tell- NBAs are less likely to have a lesser of two evils, she said. ing the whole truth, pharmacist home.Evelyn Kohlman, man- Control Centre based in Winni- spray consumption has become For people wanting to kick Larry Leroux apologizes and ager of Edmonton's AADAC peg, insists alcohol is the key a fad in two communities in the habit - whether they feed it says although he carries it, he Recovery Centre, says NBA us- substance causing health prob- particular." through NBAs or regulated al- can't sell him the product. ers are given the same treatment lems with NBA users. He says Although Torrie refused to coholic beverages - Blasetti rec- "Then Lysol do you have as alcoholics. he's often asked about the toxic- name the communities, she says ommends checking into a de- spray ?" is the customer's next "Let's face it, it's not the hair ity of Lysol when he gives talks some members believe there is a toxification centre. question. "For your injured leg ?" spray they're attracted to. It's in the United States. correlation between increased "A lot of people need a su- asks the pharmacist. the stronger alcohol for what- "Lysol spray has a very high hair spray use and a rigidly en- pervised, safe, drug -free envi- It's a story that takes place ever money they have. It's also concentration of alcohol. It's forced bylaw banning alcohol. ronment. It can be a terrible re- in any city where retailers have easier to shoplift a bottle of hair mainly plain alcohol poisoning Sadly, many of the NBA sponsibility for family members non -beverage alcohol products, spray than a bottle of wine." that people risk. It's not neces- users are youths. to have to play policemen." or NBAs, behind the counter to The big difference between sarily that there are otherchemi- "If you stay intoxicated day After detoxification, recov- sell at their discretion. The con- alcoholics who use NBAs and cals in it that make it more poi- after day when you're 14 years ery is up to the individual. sumption of some non- bever- those who don't is the degree sonous." old, by the timeyou re 18, you've Blasetti recommends the 12 -step. age alcohol products has been their health is affected. Tennenbein, who also missed out on four years of your Alcoholics Anonymous pro- such a significant problem in "If what they're drinking is works as the director of Winni- life. There's a great social, intel- gram, as well as Poundmaker's Leroux's neighborhood that he twice as lethal, their bodies are peg's Children's Hospital emer- lectual delay with those people. Lodge. now refuses to carry them. less likely to last," Kohlman says. gency services, says NBA use is You don't grow up when you're Grassroots movements de- "Suddenly a certain prod- In other words, the deteriora- an issue mainly for poverty- drunk all the time," Torrie says. signed to combat the consump- uct would be selling very well tion commonly caused by alco- stricken people. Some communities are tion of NBA substances are and I'd find it in the back lane holism speeds up. "In the eastern United States, questioning how well prohibi- springing up across the country. with a hole punctured in its bot- She says NBA users get it's the blacks who use non -bev- tion works. Consuming regu- In Winnipeg, pharmacist Larry tom," Leroux says. He may be numbness in their hands and erage alcohol," he says. "With lated alcohol products sold in Leroux works for the Non -pota- losing money but at least he can feet, perspire, experience trem- the upheaval and disintegration liquor stores is preferable to con- ble Abuse Coalition, a loose -knit do business in good conscience, ors and hallucinate. And those of the former Soviet Union, suming NBAs, they say. committee which includes mem- Leroux says - contrary to others who hallucinate are in critical vodka has become very, very Community activists in Ed- berships from politicians, resi- who purposely stock the prod- danger if they don't come out of expensive. People therearestart- monton lobbied for the 8 a.m. dents, police and street people. ucts because of their retail suc- the psychosis, she says. ing to abuse NBA substances." opening of art inner city liquor The key to solving NBA cess. "Their blood pressure goes Anthropologist Jill Torrie store in 1991. abuse, Leroux says, is to take a According to a University up. 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