CRIME PREVENTION We've got everything to gain! NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION WEEK NOV. 2 -8, 1986 Metis loan corporation opens business By George Poitras company, Settlement community services to any Loans of up to $100,000 agreement. One of two said Patenaude. Sooniyaw Corporation. one of the recognized Metis per business are available small businesses to be Lawrence Cunningham, Official opening ceremo- Settlement Sooniyaw settlements: Paddle Prairie, and up to $10,000 for financed by the new chairman of the board for nies for the newly estab- Corporation is responsible Fishing Lake, Buffalo Lake agricultural loans, with corporationisa laundromat Settlement Investment lished Settlement Invest- for the economic develop- (Caslan), Gift Lake, Kikino, repayment terms being on the Buffalo Lake Corporation says he sees ment Corporation launched ment and training for the Elizabeth, Peavine or East flexible and directly related Settlement (formerly this as a first move in the its commencement of eight Metis settlements in Prairie. to the ability of the business. Caslan). Owner of the new development of services to business on Monday, Alberta. Eligibility for loans will be Repayment terms will not business is Joe Patenaude. his people and "we can all October 27 in Edmonton. The objective of the given to either a person usually exceed five years. Patenaude will employ one recognize that we have to The new corporation is corporation is to assist in residing in a settlement or a In August, Settlement part -time worker in the work together to make this funded by the Native developing and financing partnership or corporation Investment Corporation laundromat. "I am very a reality." Economic Development businesses on Metis in which at least 51% is received its first payment of thankful for the Settlement Population of the eight Program (NEDP) and is settlements which will owned by a person residing $1.575 million for the first Investment Corporation wholly owned by its parent provide employment and on a settlement. phase of its contributions for making this possible," Continued Page 5 Broadcasters meet CRTC By Jamie McDonell Canadian Radio- Television Sauvageau report on and Telecommunication broadcasting policy backs HULL, Quebec: Consulta- (CRTC) said that consulta- up the Native broadcasters' tion on, access to and tion with their groups, and concern for consultation, distribution of Native better access and distribu- access and distribution. programming are the prime tion for Native programming The report supports the concerns of Native broad- on the northern service of eventual establishment of casters appearing before the Canadian Broadcasting an autonomous Aboriginal hearings on of the renewal Corporation were a language service in the the and, CBC licence to necessity if the corporation meantime, suggests that broadcast. was to properly serve the CBC share a trans- A progression of five Native people across ponder with the various Native broadcasting groups northern Canada. appearing before the The recent Caplan- Continued Page 2 Sacred Circle out on a limb 4 By Terry Lusty been active in the past in Fund (EOF) for the 1986 -87 terms of programming and school year. The present status of the decision- making but that Regardless of the demise Edmonton Public School now appears to have been of the Sacred Circle Board's (EPSB) Sacred effectively skirted by the project, says acting chair- Circle group finds them out school board which has person Jenny Margetts, the on a limb in search of assumed absolute control advisory committee is alive answers and solutions to over the now defunct but not so well. Further- their exclusion from direct Sacred Circle Education more, the committee as a participation in the school Project. It would be a whole is rather put out with F. board's Native education disservice to state that the the fact that the committee's '$ policies and programming. committee is satisfied with name was arbitrarily Now referring to them- the recent turn-around. In changed by the school selves as the Sacred Circle consequence, two recent board to the "Native Advisory Committee meetings of the SCAC Education Advisory a (SCAC), this body of have made it abundantly Committee." mostly Native people had clear that they wish to The board felt justified in remain an integral and dropping the original name ar participatory body in the because the program had area of Native education in ground to a halt. The ART SHOWS OPENED the public school system. SCAC finds this unaccept- Last week saw the of two art by Native women artists. Joan The meetings which able and has asked Mills to openings shows Maxine Noel were also attended by pass that message on to her Cardinal- Shubert (below) opened at the Vik Gallery and (above) at the This week, Maxine Noel will be Elaine Mills, the assistant superiors. Mills has told the opened Bearclaw Gallery. superintendent of instruc- committee that "the school featured on Page 12. tional services, struggled board sees a need for the through the difficult Task of advisory committee" and coping with the fact that that she is present at their Sacred Circle is history as meetings "to listen and pass far as the school board is on advice to the board." concerned. What is annoying to the INSIDE THIS WEEK The Sacred Circle project SCAC is that major changes was first instituted back in regarding Native education 1981 as a five year pilot are being implemented THE GRAND CENTRE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE is closing down due to the which concluded this without the participation or hard facts of economics. See story on Page 5. summer and has since been sanction of their group. LOCAL 1885 held its 2nd Annual General Assembly. Find out what o absorbed by the public Reacting to the closing happened on Page 4. system at large. To assist statements of a May 9, 1986 them, the public board document on "Native THE CALGARY WINTER OLYMPICS board will appoint a Native board c member. it received a whopping Education" which went Read about on Page 3. $610,000 from the province's Educational Opportunities Continued Page 3 A NEW DAWN IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS J PAGE 2, October 31, 1986, WINDSPEAKER Saskatchewan Indian College Groups make submissions to hold first annual meeting Broadcasters meet CRTC REGINA - The end of "People at the band level October will see the would acquire information From Page 1 into the equation. beginning of a new annual about the SIFC's existing "Southern Native people trend at the Saskatchewan role and its potential future Native communications need access to their Indian Federated College role, what it does, and what societies so they can culture," said Bear after the (SIFC). it could develop for the provide greater service to hearings, "and how can On October 29 and 30, band," Brass says. Native peoples in the north. these needs be met if there the college will be holding During the two -day While the report supports isn't any appropriate its first annual conference event, conference -goers an extension of Native programming." at the Regina Inn. Or- will be taking a hard look at services to Aboriginal Access to programming ganizers of the SIFC SIFC's 12 programs through peoples across the north for all Native people should conference '86 say they're workshops and daily general and into the south, it simply be a priority for the trying to gather Indian assemblies. Workshop suggests research and government, if only so that education policy makers sessions will include consultation on Native its money won't be wasted. and personnel in a general examinations of the role needs in the south (In Says Bear, "the investments assembly "to present and traditional spiritual leaders Alberta, the "South" starts made by the federal govern- discuss the college's man- play at SIFC; the low level just north of Edmonton, ment are not going to see date, programs and alterna- of post -secondary education according to the report). dividends that they expect tives." funding available from If the report does not if programs produced will "We're the only Indian - Indian and Northern Affairs actually ignore southern not reach the intended controlled university college Canada (INAC); SIFC Native needs, it places audience." in Canada and we're student services and other them well behind the needs Native groups other than interested in showing areas. of Natives in the north NACS making submissions people just what we're all Invitations to Conference where Aboriginal peoples to the hearings were Native about," says Sid Fiddler, '86 have been extended to are a majority. Communications Incor- vice -president in charge of band governments, band However, as Jeff Bear of porated from Manitoba, administration and special education authorities and the National Aboriginal Missinipi Broadcasting projects for the college. school committees. The Communications Society from Saskatchewan, "We also want to discuss new executive of the told the CRTC, there is Northern Native Broadcast- how our programs fit in Federation of Saskatchewan more to the matter than ing from the Yukon and the with the general thrust of Indian Nations (FSIN) and population figures - Inuit Broadcasting Indian self- government. education personnel from JEFF BEAR educational, social and Corporation of the North- Dr. Oliver Brass (B.Th., INAC district, regional and ..,wants appropriate programming other considerations work west Territories. B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), is a Ottawa offices are also Saskatchewan Indian and expected to participate. As the new SIFC president well, the,rnedia and native they say. As a result, they say they've been cheated out He says the Indian commu- education personnel from of millions of dollars. nity as a whole will be the some provincial govern- OTTAWA The department's reaction to the controversy has beneficiaries of the annual ments are being encouraged been interesting.