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The president of the native-owned Cree Airways says he and his company are being pushed to the brink of bankruptcy because of a lawsuit which he says led to the seizure of assets and the freezing of the company's bank accounts.

The company, which began offering flights to northern Alberta in August, received a lawsuit from a former marketing manager and Edmonton city police Const. Randolph Kim Klonkeid. Klonkeid is claiming $185,167.80 for alleged breach of contract says Roland Calahasen.

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The Louis Riel memorial which is enacted each Nov. 16 on the steps of the Alberta legislature took a new turn this year as two separate sects of Metis gathered to remember their great leader.

As the legislature clock struck noon, Ron LaRocque, acting president of the new Metis Nation Alliance, took the microphone to speak of Riel as the great Metis father.

"We are gathered here today to remember that Riel fought for the Metis and died for our nation," he told about 50 members of his organization.

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The president of the Metis Association of Alberta is unhappy over the formation of a splinter group but feels the group is elitist and will not appeal to most Metis.

Reacting to a Riel memorial ceremony held by the Metis Nation Alliance headed by acting president Ron LaRocque, Larry Desmeules said he felt "sad to see a group, especially when they were working within our democratic process, break away."

"There are a lot of disgruntled people, but it is better to work than fight," he said during an open house held at Local 1885 in Edmonton Nov. 16.

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The new Alberta Metis Nation Alliance is "now in action," according to acting president Ron LaRocque, who spoke at a meeting held in Edmonton friendship centre Nov. 8.

More than 60 people, some from as far away as Lac La Biche attended the three hour meeting, including five Local presidents.

LaRocque led a discussion about a variety of problems he feels are facing the Metis people of the province and blamed many of these problems on the current administration of the association.

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American Indians are offended by the display and storage of their ancestors' bones in museums and want them returned.

Bill Tall Bull, a cultural leader and tribal historian from the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in south-eastern Montana says he has enlisted the help of politicians including the Senate's senator who plans to introduce a bill to help the recovery of bones and sacred objects.

Indian leaders say when a white person's grave is dug up it is called grave robbing but when an Indian burial ground is tampered with it is considered archeology.

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Canada World Youth launched its 1988 recruitment campaign with the news that 378 Canadians would be participating in this coming year's youth exchange program with developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Canada World Youth, funded in part by the Canadian International Agency (CIDS), is at present accepting applications from young people between the ages of 17 and 20 who are interested in learned about development and inter-cultural communication in both Canada and the Third World.

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The tough restrictions on lynx trapping that were imposed by the Alberta government Sept. 30 will stay in place despite a plea from a united opposition of Aboriginal organizations.

Leaders of Alberta's three Aboriginal associations met with Wildlife Minister LeRoy Fjordbotten last week to discuss the disputed decision and to call for the easing of the quota which restricts the trapping of lynx to one per trapping area.

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Two United States radio stations are refusing to play the songs of Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson because the two stars played at a benefit for Indian activist Leonard Peltier.

President of KQLH San Bernardino and KWRM Riverside, Pat Michaels said the performance of the singers at the Costa Mesa Amphitheater for Peltier was an insult.

The Indian veteran's association is about to call upon the Soviet Union to put pressure on Canada for a better deal for Indian war veterans.

Hugh Taylor, the executive director of the national association said he chose the Soviet Union because it has been a war time ally and would draw attention to the plight of the Indian veteran.

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This week Remembrance Day ceremonies were held all across Europe, but one special ceremony was performed for the Indian soldiers who gave their lives to the first and second world wars.

Seventeen Indian veterans, mostly from Ontario, revisited the European battle fields in remembrance of the soldiers who they say have been forgotten.

Indian veterans held special burial ceremonies for their departed comrades and placed eagle feathers in the branches of trees that overlook the cemetary where many fallen Indian soldiers are buried.