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Five Alberta Indians joined the Nicaraguan revolutionary process by attending

the International Symposium dealt specifically with the autonomy process now underway pertaining to Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast indigenous peoples.

The Alberta delegation, from Saddle Lake, Cold Lake, Beaver Lake, and the Blood Tribe, was among eleven other Canadians and about 100 delegates from around

the world. Included were indigenous people from North, South, and Central America

and lawyers, writers, and social scientists from various countries.

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KEHEWIN - A problem in housing has arisen between Kehewin council and reserve members who built homes through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Last month, the CMHC checked the reserve's books to see how it was administering the low rental subsidy. What it found was that the band was letting tenants pay only the difference between their monthly payment ($150 - $30) depending on the house and when it was built, and the CMHC subsidy, which covers roughly 90 per cent of the cost.

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BATOCHE, SASK. - An coupe d'etat attempt by anti-Sinclair members to oust Jim Sinclair as president of the Association of Metis and Non-Status Indians of Saskatchewan (AMNSIS) failed during the two-day annual assembly of AMNSIS held here on July 24 and 25, respectively.

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The grassroots election of a national Metis leader is being proposed by the Metis Association of Alberta.

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On August 21st of this year, Maggie Francise Calliou, will be 85 years old. With a crispness of mind she can still recall the days of long past.

Maggie was born at home on the Stony Plain Indian Reserve, better known today as the Enoch Reserve. Her father was an interpreter for this Band as well as 4 others in the area, the Alexander, Alexis, Paul and Michel Bands. As you may know Paul and Alexis Reserves are made up of Stoney Band members.

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COLD LAKE - Although Edgar Duckett has been picking arrowheads out of his garden for over forty years, only recently has his farm been declared an official archeological site. Since the late 1930's, when he first homestead on Ethel Lake, approximately 20 miles west of Cold Lake, Duckett has collected thousands of arrowheads, prehistoric tools, hide scrapers and broken flakes of rock implements.

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Crazy Horse (Oglala Sioux)

Crazy Horse (Tashunke Witko) a military figure of the Oglala Sioux tribe, came

to power while still a young man in his middle twenties, during Red Cloud's War along the Bozeman Trail.

Unlike Red Cloud, Crazy did not settle on Sioux lands established by the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, but with his followers stayed out in unceded buffalo country to the west.

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Hi, howdy and hello. Here is a little something two consenting readers can try, just to get you into the mood for this week's particular talk. It involves tying up. It involves darkness. Okay! Now take a scarf or a sterilized sock. Tie that like a blindfold around your partner's eyes. This is where the fun starts. You lead them around the room, steering them clear of furniture, napping uncles, acting as their eyes in other words. That was pretty easy eh? Now your partner gets to lead you around like that for awhile.

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EDITORIAL

If the record of debate in the Alberta Legislative Assembly - "Hansard" - is any indication, our concerns that Native issues have been downgraded by the new provincial government are confirmed.

In the first 20 days of debate since the new session of the Legislative Assembly began sitting, there appears to be only one reference to Native people.

That reference came during Committee of Supply debates on the Department of the Attorney General, when Leo Piquette, the new Democrat MLA for Athabasca-Lac

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Calgary's Glenbow museum held its first multicultural days last week, and Blackfoot children from the Milo school south of Calgary were the first to come and listen to Indian legends, participate in Metis jigs and see the many artifacts from the Indian people of Southern Alberta.

The week-long event featured exhibits and lectures on a variety of Canadian ethnic groups, with one day set aside for the Native people of Alberta.