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The leaders of the four national Aboriginal peoples organizations are angry that they have been totally ignored at the constitutional talks held at Meech Lake recently.

"It is incredible that Brian Mulroney and the premiers can contemplate such major amendments to Canada's Constitution without us, especially when most of the agenda items affect us," said Georges Erasmus, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, the group representing the First Nations in Canada.

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The past council of the Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement has not been able to account for a $268,590 deficit.

At a January 19 general membership meeting of the settlement, a motion by a Buffalo Lake resident that an audit be conducted of all the settlement's financial accounts was passed unanimously.

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Two head-on collisions, which claimed six Alberta Native lives in a recent five-day period, have heightened controversy about the quality of both roads.

An April 25 crash on Highway 2A north of Ponoka took the lives of Charlie Orr, 57, of Hobbema, Gary Gunn and his mother Julie, 53, of Rocky Mountain House. All were travelling in a van.

Four other Wetaskiwin residents were killed in the same accident. Their Suburban truck was struck by the on-coming van which strayed across the centre line of the highway, according to police.

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Editorial

There seems little doubt that North America faces a crisis in political leadership.

Item: The leading contender for the U.S. Democratic Party presidential nomination drops out of the campaign, leaving his supporters ? and the party ? high and dry. Reason: a respected and award-winning newspaper reports that he spend the weekend with a model and former beauty queen in Washington while his wife was back home ? and this in the middle of the campaign.

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On a prime minister tour of smaller cities in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Mila Mulroney stopped here to visit Native artists and view their work.

The show was held in the Cronquist House; a three-story dwelling built shortly after the turn of the century in the beautiful Bower Ponds along the river.

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Native students at the University of Lethbridge are not optimistic about Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's promise to investigate cut-backs in funding by Indian Affairs.

A small group of mature U of L students told the prime minister on May 6 that an Indian Affairs policy, Circular E-12, has discontinued funding for about 16 Native students.

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I have a confession ? I'm an addict. I'm not addicted to heroin, cocaine, alcohol or even tobacco. Instead, I'm hopelessly and helplessly addicted to fishing. In fact, if I don't get my fix on a regular basis, I get withdrawal symptoms ? my skin breaks out in a rash, my eyes get blurry and I get very cranky.

When I can't be out on the water, I control my craving by watching fishing shows on television, reading fishing magazines, browsing through the fishing section in department stores, telling fish stories to anybody who'll listen.

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Indications are that Pope John Paul will keep his often-repeated promise to return to the Northwest Territories before 1989.

Almost three years have passed since his September 1984 Canadian tour.

In '84, the Pope was scheduled to visit Fort Simpson. People of all ages, including many Elders, made the trek to Fort Simpson to catch a glimpse of the religious leader. But heavy fog prevented flights in or out of the tiny community, and the Papal tour stopped, instead, in Yellowknife.

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A squabble involving former Metis Regional Council Zone 4 representatives Ben Courtrille and Ron LaRocque on one side, and the Metis Association of Alberta (MAA) and interim officials of Zone 4 on the other, heated up again last Wednesday when the two men tried to take official part in a MAA board meeting in Edmonton.

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Every man, woman, and child in the Peigan band will receive $1,025 on June 1 as compensation by the federal government over a land claim dating back to 1909.

Band councillor Stanley Knowlton says the Peigan nation approved the distribution on April 21 when 558 members voted in favor of the $5.2 million out of court settlement. Only 22 negative votes were cast.

The band was 2,600 registered members.

It was not until the fourth referendum that the Peigans accepted the federal offer.