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The Cold Lake First Nations Band elected Francis Scanie as their Chief on June 17, at their reserve, located 210 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

Joining Chief Scanie on band council are Sam Minoose, Gordon Muskego, Melanie Matchatis, Rod Charland, Armand Martial and Leo Janvier. Elections for counsellors were held on June 25.

The Cold Lake community has about 1,100 residents.

Chief Scanie, 58, has previously been on Council for 14 years, serving as band councillor between 1968 and 1982.

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CALGARY - Hundreds of delegates from all parts of Canada gathered together to attend the first ever national conference for Community Health Representatives (CHRs), held in the Calgary Convention Centre June 22 to 26.

The convention was hosted by the Alberta Indian Health Care Commission and took three years to plan and organize. The conference marked the 25th anniversary of the inception of the national CHR program.

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TORONTO - Youth were not forgotten at the Native Business Summit here recently.

More than 100 Native young people from across Canada - 15 of them from Alberta - attended a Native Youth Business Leadership Conference sponsored by the Canadian Council for Native Business (CCNB).

The conference was designed "to encourage Native Youth to consider business as an option, and to position the CCNB and its member network as active advisors, not only to the delegates themselves, but through them to all members of the Native community.

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The world will be turned into Native concerns at the upcoming Second World Conference of Community Oriented Radio Broadcasters, July 25 - 29, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

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The new home of Native communications in Northern Alberta was officially opened July 3.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the occasion for the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) and the Aboriginal Radio and television Society (ARTS).

The building at 15001 - 112 Avenue in Edmonton was purchased earlier this year and the societies moved into it in mid-March, on the third anniversary of the first edition of the AMMSA newspaper, now called "Windspeaker."

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CALGARY - A bitter feud which has been raging for two years on the Blackfoot Reserve, east of Calgary, has become even more complicated this week as a second lawsuit was served against the Blackfoot chief and council and the Calgary Department of Indian Affairs.

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PEACE RIVER - Treaty 8 Chiefs are being asked to approve an education commission proposal to transfer programs from the Department of Indian Affairs to the Treaty 8 Education Commission that was established by the chiefs in November, 1984.

One of the first achievements of the education commission was a study of the area to find how the people of the Treaty see education.

Problems Ignored

The study (commonly referred to as the Sage Study) pointed out many of the problems which Indian students face when they go to school.

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In protest of recent government action to divert per capita payments of minors, 30 people marched down main street of St. Paul on July 3, to deliver their message to the Indian Affairs district office.

The protest was in response to federal government's unilateral decision, to review the manner in which per capita distributions are made to band members who are 18 years and under.

Per capita payments from the capital accounts of bands are presently given to all members of bands, with parents and guardians collecting for children.

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SADDLE LAKE - Circled by a panoramic view of the cultural park by the North Saskatchewan River, the Saddle Lake community was joined by a huge crowd of visitors and relatives from near and far, in celebrating the Saddle Lake First Nations Centennial Powwow.

Hundreds of people set up camp and more came to join the three-day celebration of the 100th birthday of the Saddle Lake reserve community.

Saddle Lake went all out in sharing its hospitality, with a packed activities program that ensuree participation by everyone of all ages.

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Hi and ahneen, hello and tansi. Canada is 119 years old now. On July lst somebody somewhere is blowing out a bunch of candles, one for each year. If we did that for each year we'd been here, imagine the kind of wind we'd get going. It would probably be enough to shake the walls of the department of Immigration in Ottawa. All those pass-ports and visas would go straight out the window, catch in the wind again and blow clear back across the ocean. Then we could go around saying, "oh, no papers, we're sorry, see you later."