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This week a senior citizen won a landmark case over compulsory retirement. And sine the announcement, the media has lauded the ruling as a precedent-setting case that will not only assure against compulsory retirement but give a boost to women's rights, too. However, the media seems to have overlooked one important fact. This landmark case was won by Olive Dickason, who is also Metis.

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You should have been there. In fact, Canada's entire Native population should have been in Calgary last Friday night to see Chief Bernard Ominiyak address the audience at a benefit concert in support of his band's land claim.

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Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominiyak is dismayed by the recent announcement by Calgary mayor Ralph Klein that a Blackfoot band member will receive an all-expenses European tour to counter-act the Lubicon boycott of the Calgary Winter Olympic Games.

"The main point is that I hate to see our people being used in this way against the objectives of Native people across the country," said Ominiyak in an interview from his Little Buffalo office.

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She lives in Hawaii, an ocean away. But Buffy Sainte-Marie still holds this nation's Aboriginal rights close to her heart and on Oct. 23 she came to Calgary to testify to that in song.

Sainte-Marie performed before an appreciative audience of both Native and non-Native background. While she sang many of her classic and more popular songs, it was her call for support of the Lubicons that were heard strongest.

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Hundreds of people crowded into Calgary's Jubilee auditorium Oct. 23 in support of the Lubicon Lake Indian band and their 47-year-old land claim against the federal government.

The concert featured Indian singer Buffy Sainte-Marie who told the audience that the band's boycott of the Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics is just and should receive the support of Calgarians.

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MAA heats up over ousting

The Zone 4 vice-president and director of the Metis Association have been asked to resign over the ousting of two members by the Association board in September.

Jo-Ann Daniels, president of Edmonton Local 83 has demanded that Dan Martel and Leonard Gauthier both resign or reinstate ousted members, Ron LaRocque and Ben Courtrille.

However, Martel, who says he received the demand from Daniels says he is not prepared to discuss the issue, yet.

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Saddle Lake in membership dispute

No royalty cheques will be issued to Saddle Lake band members until Ottawa stops insisting Bill C-31 members are also to be paid says the chief.

During a band meeting on the reserve this week a decision was made to curtail all payments until the issue of band membership is resolved.

According to band lawyer Bob Roddick the band had earlier tried to exclude C-31 members from royalty benefits but was advised that this was illegal.

Royalty cheques range from about $25 to $40 say band officials.

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Ten years ago, I was in California, on a holiday from my job in British Columbia. I checked into a hotel in San Francisco. The desk clerk was an East Indian woman.

She looked at my registration form and in a lilting accent said: "You live in Vancouver? There are many Indian people living in Vancouver, I am told."

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Government funded and controlled economic development programs have failed, so Metis leaders feel it's about time they were allowed to take control of their own destiny said delegates at a Saskatchewan economic development conference Oct. 22 and 23.

"We must take a new direction in the use of funds available to Native people from government ? for the supply is limited and we, as leaders, must not waste it or squander it," said Yvon Dumont, president of the Manitoba Metis Federation.

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67-year-old wins retirement fight

After being "sent out to pasture" at age 65, a Metis university professor won a provincial arbitration decision, Oct. 23, supporting her fight against mandatory retirement.

Olive Dickason, now 67, believes the ruling will "establish a precedent nationally" and pave the way for others to work past the mandatory age for retirement.