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The wife of a man found dead underneath the city's Whoop-Up Bridge in 1984 denied having anything to do with his death.

When Lenore Sinclair was asked by a Blood Band lawyer if she had anything to do with Ivan Garry Chief Moon's death emphatically said no.

Chief Moon's body was found under the bridge Dec. 9, 1984. Police believe the 25 year old man fell accidently.

Commission lawyer Michael Stevens-Guille told Sinclair Wednesday, at the Rolf Inquiry investigating strained relation between the band and police, of a rumor implicating her in his

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A federal court decision giving the go-ahead to the controversial Oldman Dam isn't the end of the road for the Peigan Band, says a band lawyer.

"They're on a different track all together" than the Friends of the Oldman River Society which tried to stop the project, said Vancouver lawyer Louis Mandell, who will represent the

band at a hearing Tuesday in Calgary.

A preliminary application is to be heard by the Alberta Court of Appeal in a landmark case involving aboriginal water rights.

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High-alcohol content cooking wines are being pulled from Alberta grocery store shelves because it has become the drink of choice for Edmonton's skid-row Natives.

Inexpensive cooking wines, with an alcohol content of 38 per cent, will be removed from corner grocery counters Sept. 1.

The alcohol content will be reduced to 20 per cent.

The decision by the government to regulate the traditional cooking liquor comes as a result of pressure by two Edmonton downtown beat policemen and a social service physician.

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A Kehewin couple is blaming Alberta Social Services for the death of their youngest son.

"They took him from us when he was healthy and brought him back in a box," said his mother Lila McCarthy.

"They just ripped our hearts out," said the devastated mother at a press conference last week in west Edmonton.

Dallas Soloway of Ardmore was killed Aug. 5 after a car in which he was a passenger was hit from behind on the outskirts of Grand Centre.

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Metis politicians are feeding their followers false hope about the future of Native people, charges recently retired Metis association representative George Amato.

During the 61st annual general assembly of the Metis Association of Alberta in St. Paul on Aug. 12, Amato took centre stage and denounced the association's current policy makers

for ignoring the rights of Metis people in Alberta.

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It is customary for Native people to hold a memorial in honor of a deceased loved one about one year after the death.

Ruth McNab's memorial for her beloved husband Bill, who passed away May 24, 1988, is by way of publication.

Being away from the reserve that had been their home, McNab believes that by publicizing a memorial of her late husband, she will reach more of his friends.

Bill McNab hailed from Gordon's reserve in Saskatchewan, where the couple lived since their marriage in 1961.

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The cradleboard for babies has become virtually obsolete.

But an Edmonton Native couple has started their own small business, manufacturing the boards, which serve as a crib, playpen, carriage and car seat for infants.

Lise and Adelard Jacko, formerly of the Chipewyan Cold Lake band, said the high cost of baby furniture gave them the idea to build a cradle board for their expected child.

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Native artists are beginning to depict more of the power of the spiritual work in their art.

And it's that kind of new development which artist Jane Ash Poitras believes is a trend away from the forceful, negative messages which have appeared in many previous works,

including her own work.

"I can see what we've already done. We've thrown the negative side in there, showed the issue of the residential schools, the exploitation of Indians. People look at it and say: God,

it's so depressing!" Said Poitras, who is Cree.

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Art has always been an obsession with Edmonton artist Kim McLain.

The 1987 winner of the Alberta Indian Arts and Crafts Society's ASUM MENA Native Artists Festival says he has always been fascinated with art since he was a teenager.

"I became obsessed with art when I was 16. I just found it so fascinating....looking at abstract paintings and seeing them in a new way," recalls the 25 year-old artist.

"It's just a drive in me that tells me I have to paint and draw."

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Canada's first national Native art gallery has opened and will send a signal to gallery owners across the country that art made by Native artists should be given more serious

consideration.

That's the view of Gerald McMaster, curator of the Museum of Civilization which opened its doors to the public in June 26.

The museum, located in Hull, Quebec, houses the Indian and Inuit Art Gallery.

McMaster says this is the first opportunity for Native artists across Canada to exhibit their work nationally on a continuing, rotating basis.