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OTTAWA - The Honourable Bill McKnight, Minister of Northern Affairs and Northern Development, has confirmed that he has requested the Honuorable Robert de Cotret, President of the Treasury Board, to undertake a major review of the management of the lands, revenues and trust functions of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (INAC). Mr. McKnight's request was contained in a letter to his Cabinet colleague.

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The Alaska National Board marched in carrying the Soviet flag. A song welcomed the USSR neighbors but there were no Soviet Inuit in attendance when the Inuit Circumpolar Conference opened recently, near the Bering Strait.

Soviet officials had lead organizers to believe that two Inuit would be allowed to make the short trip cross the Strait.

They were to join other Inuit from Alaska, Canada and Greenland for a week of meetings and cultural activities. The Soviet government apparently thought the meetings were too political.

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BLOOD RESERVE - Located near where an old Indian burial site and a whiskey trading post existed a hundred years ago, the Old Man River Bridge was officially opened here, October 14.

After 13 years of negotiations between the Blood Band, the County of Lethbridge and the provincial government, the opening ceremonies culminated the highway and bridge construction started two years ago.

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Hello, ahnen and tansi. A few weeks ago we left off our treaty talk on how land could be lost by one and acquired by some other. Remember that? It's sorta like us as owners or landlords of a building. These tenants show up asking to move in. A deal is made. They move in. All of a sudden, though, those renters start complaining about the rent. Back in the days before some of us became steadily businessmen, the rent wasn't

set high enough to begin with. Then those talents begin heavily insinuating that they, not us, owned the place after all.

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Armistice Day, a day designated in our calendar year, an anniversary of a day in 1918 in which the hostilities of World War I ended, a day to remember, November 11.

Imagine that - to live in a far away country, fighting for the freedom of your country with the possibility of never seeing your family or friends again. I can only imagine what it was like. To actually feel myself there is impossible, though many of our fellow men have.

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BLOOD RESERVE - The Blood Tribe chief and council unanimously voted October 22 to rescind an amendment to hold a referendum during the November band elections on the new four year council terms.

In a telephone interview with Chief Roy Fox, he said council made the motion while a Blood protester's group occupied their council chambers to demand the withdrawal of the new amendment made in August.

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BLOOD RESERVE - The Blood Tribe chief and council have admitted they breached the election bylaws in the Indian Act by rescinding an earlier motion on changing council terms of office, says John Chief Moon Sr.

Chief Moon is a member of a protest group who opposed the new four year council term and stormed the Blood council chambers here October 22. After an intense meeting, they were successful in their efforts to get council to withdraw their original motion. Instead, council voted unanimously to hold a referendum during the Blood elections in November.

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Peter Francis, the chief of the Heart Lake Indian Band, is still in office despite recent attempts to have him step down.

An October 25 article in the Edmonton Journal described the previous day's band meeting as "a hair pulling, fist swinging free for all" following the chief's refusal to vacate his position after what had been termed "a six-month probationary period" which the Journal said Francis had failed to pass.

In speaking with Francis, Windspeaker was told that the issue is a "local one" and that he wishes to leave it at that.

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Three Native inmates continue their hunger strike at the Edmonton Correctional Institute just east of the city as a protest to what they consider unfair treatment. Willie Blake (NWT) and Dennis Okeynan (Alberta) began their fast on October 22 and were joined by Wesley Crowe (Saskatchewan) on the 29th in a show of solidarity.

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Ahneen, tansi and hi, who are you? Yep you read that right. And nope it wasn't a typing error on my part either. Just exactly who are you and for that matter who are us.

This past winter we ate at two Indian restaurants here in Gretszkyville. At one place we ate parathos and samosa which we washed down with a glass of lassi. At the other it was as goat roti, sugar cake and ginger beer.