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Twenty-two businesses put their wares on display at the 1989 Working Conference on Indian Economic Development in the Edmonton Inn from Sept. 26 to 28.

The tradeshow information booths demonstrated the growth of Native businesses, according to conference coordinator Don Logan.

"What we're trying to do is compare it to ten years ago when a conference of this nature took place then and what has occurred now. Is Indian business development actually

occurring? The overwhelming answer is yes!" said Logan.

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Alberta's Indians will make real dreams happen when they join forces, set goals and place a priority on education and business says Wetaskiwin MP Willie Littlechild.

"We have to set goals and examples. The Japanese decided to be number on in the world by setting goals in decades.

"They decided they were going to be number one in the world in the 1950s in textiles and they were.

"They decided they were going to be number one in the world in the 1960s in steel and they were.

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Native businessmen should be as shrewd and ambitious as their white counterparts, says former James Bay Cree chief Billy Diamond.

After all, says Diamond "we have access to the same resources as they do."

Diamond, whose business and political dealings have brought him national and international recognition, told delegates at the Indian Economic Development Conference that the

entrepreneurial spirit among Native communities is alive and well.

It just needs to break away from government control to flourish, he said.

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Indian economic development.

That was the phrase echoed over and over at the first major conference in ten years to address the economic issues facing Indian communities today.

Unlike the last major conference organized by the Indian Association of Alberta in 1979 which focused on how Indian communities could strive to forge partnerships with each other,

this conference was broader ins cope from the start.

The conference theme was dubbed "Realizing Our Potential." But it's message was directed to more than an Indian audience.

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Triple Five Corporation has removed two Indian mannequins from a shooting gallery at its Eaton Centre mall following a formal complaint to the Alberta Human Rights Commission.

Alberta Human Rights Commission officers launched an investigation into the game after prominent local artist Jane Ash Poitras filed an official complaint, calling the game "racist and

condescending."

The game, dubbed the 'Yukon Shooting Gallery' featured a domestic scene with a life-size Indian couple sitting on a from porch surrounded by pets and animals.

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The northern Alberta Sawridge Indian band has signed a self-government that will give its people control over their own affairs and provide a base for other Native bands wanting

self-government.

Chief Walter Twinn and Indian Affairs Minister Pierre Cadieux put the self-government initiative into writing Sept. 26, signing the deal in Edmonton.

The agreement-in-principle will leave the decision-making process up to the band's administration and enable it to control its own, police force, health services and school boards.

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The vision for success that started as a drawing on a cocktail napkin six years ago has now been etched in stone, says Native neophyte businessman Leo Jacobs.

Jacobs has finalized a deal with European investors for the construction of a $50 million international tourist resort in northern Alberta.

And the long awaited announcement couldn't have come at a more fitting time.

Jacobs made the surprise statement during a banquet presentation at the 1989 Indian Economic Development Conference at the Edmonton Inn.

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A land-use dispute between the federal government and the Sarcee Indian band on the southern Alberta reserve near Calgary has ended.

Windspeaker has learned that the Department of National Defence and band officials have reached a tentative agreement to clean up parts of the reserve that have been used for

military exercises for over 70 years.

Band members blockaded reserve roads connected to the nearby DND base in June, drawing national media attention, and forced the department to the negotiating table.

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Reading about a Native doll contest in the Windspeaker sparked local resident Bertha Bird to put her sewing skills and imagination to work.

The 47 year old sewing instructor entered her granny doll and won first place honors recently in The Indian Arts and Crafts Society's Native doll contest.

Bird's award was a cash prize of $1,000.

"The doll was conceived to remind the viewer to care and respect the Elders," said Bird.

Attention to detail and the endearing face determined the doll's first place finish.

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Indian hunter George Alexson never used to need help when he went into the bush to bag some elk in order to feed his family.

Now, he's facing a court battle with local ranchers who claim he's not authorized to be on their land.

Alexson says his status as an Indian permits him to hunt where he wants, and he's got the public to back him up.

When Alexson, 39, went tracking an 800 lb elk bull into the woods near Valleyview, Alberta last year, he caught the ire of provincial officials who charged him with hunting without a

license on Crown land.