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Dear Editor:

Headlines should read "Colonizers strike again." Despite protests around the world, America and Britain have declared war against Iraq in the name of democracy and peace.

First peoples of this great land, now called Canada, know all too well the price that war has had on their people, and I feel a great need to stress to the world that Canada and its first peoples do not support and will not support the "mass destruction" of innocent lives in this land or any other.

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Dear Editor:

re: The First Nations governance act (Bill C-7).

The Dominion of Canada could not have been created without the peaceful co-existence agreement that was entered into on Aug. 3, 1871 between the signatories of the seven Treaty 1 nations and the British Crown on a "nation to nation" basis.

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Dear Editor:

re: Editorial February 2003-What's wrong with inclusiveness?

I read your editorial with interest and absolutely agree with your comments and noted that you have forgotten a large group of us out there, status Natives who live and, in a few cases, work in a First Nation that is not our own. We have no rights at all in another community.

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Editorial

We've never been shy to publish opinion that is critical of the Liberal government and Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Often, the Liberal Party's approach to Indigenous issues just doesn't mesh with the way we, and many of our readers, believe things should be done.

So in the interests of fairness, we feel it's important and necessary to say there have been a couple of times recently when we've found ourselves saying-with a certain amount of amazement-that we're really proud of the position the prime minister has taken.

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Two Blood band youngsters have been selected as delegates to represent Alberta at the national crime prevention youth conference to be held in Prince Edward Island, Nov. 4 to 8.

Candy Manychiefs, 17, who attends the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute and Joey Weaselfat, 14, from the Cardston High School were selected as two of four delegates to represent Alberta.

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The RCMP and other Native service organizations must make the effort to educate themselves on Native life and culture if the vicious cycle of poverty and imprisonment is to be broken says Elder Eddie Bellerose.

"When I was a little boy the RCMP was a noble man, a man of protection, a man who looked after Indian people on reserves," said Bellerose, 64, speaking to Native Elders, and other delegates at the All-Chiefs Conference held at the Alexander reserve, Oct. 28 ? 29.

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Editor's Notebook

Each week Windspeaker publishes one or two letters. And indeed we are pleased to receive comments from our readers on the news and events that shape their lives.

We make every effort possible to produce these letters, with only minor change due to libel or space. All we ask is that they are legible, clear as to what is being said, and suitable for a general audience.

And there is one more thing they must be ? free of personal attacks.

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EDITORIAL

Remembrance Day. It's a day of recollecting thoughts of long ago when, thousands of miles across the sea, a war raged in Europe.

As we sit down to watch the Remembrance Day services on television, there is one face often missing from the crowd ? that of the Native soldier.

Many people are just not aware that in the First World War about 3,500 Indians enlisted and in the Second World War about 3,090. But these records are not complete as non-status and Metis people were not included.

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Kainai Industries, a Blood owned prefab modular housing industry is on the brink of completing 50 media units for the Calgary Winter Olympics, says the acting general manager.

Howard Beebee, said in an interview that Kainai completed all but five unites last week. "We've transported all the units to Calgary and are ready," he said.

Kainai Industries was awarded the $1.7 million contract in early July after an intense and controversial negotiations with OCO '88 officials to secure the housing contract last winter.

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Self-determination for the Metis people of Alberta came a step closer to realization Thursday, Nov. 5 in Edmonton when Premier Don Getty, Metis Association of Alberta, (MAA) president Larry Desmeules and the six zone vice-presidents signed the Framework Agreement.

The Agreement, which promotes joint planning and action in six crucial areas of concern to the Metis, is a direct response to the MAA's submission for self-government presented to the Alberta government in May 1987.