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Both the Blood and Sarcee Nations in southern Alberta have received the required 50 plus one votes necessary to pass its proposed membership codes before the June 28 deadline required by Indian Affairs.

Kirby Many Fingers, constitution coordinator of the Blood tribe, says a final count was made on June 23 to determine that over 1,600 Bloods have signed a petition being circulated on the Blood reserve.

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Members of the McLeod Lake Indian band are blockading a forestry road to stop logging operations by Balcean Enterprises.

The band says the land and the timber north of Prince George belongs to them according to a federal treaty which offered them 51 hectares of land per band member.

The road block was prompted when negotiations for the land claims stalled on June 23. The band is also seeking a court injunction to halt all logging.

Balcean Enterprises is also seeking a court injunction ? to have the blockade removed.

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Georges Erasmus, grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations has suggested the formation of an agency, independent of government support, to assist Native people fighting in court battles over issues such as land and treaty rights.

"We've tried to work it out peacefully, but it hasn't worked," said Erasmus, referring to the last First Ministers Conference where the AFN failed to reach a deal with Ottawa on self-government.

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Allegations that the Calgary Urban Affairs Committee is "toothless" and is just a "public relations exercise" made by a city alderman who resigned from the committee in March have become a catalyst which could see the committee move from a purely advisory capacity to a commission.

In a recent interview Alderman Ann Blough, who was assigned to the committee, complained that city council had "walked all over" a committee proposal to fund the New Status Indian Association of Alberta headed by committee member, Fred Fraser.

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Two Calgary artists have designed a protest painting which, they say, symbolizes the "road block" Canada Council of Arts has erected across their work.

John Langeveld and Clifford Crane Bear, who work in conjunction, have painted a familiar scene from the Stoney Indian reserve west of Calgary. The scene is of a 1A highway near the Morley turnoff. However, a large red-and-white roadblock traverses the road and cuts off the beautiful scenery.

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People must stop thinking the $250,000 OCO (Olympiques Canada Olympics) will be contributing toward a $1.25 million plan to involve Natives in the upcoming winter Olympics as funding, says chairman and president Frank King.

In an interview from his Calgary office recently, King pointed out that OCO is not a funding agency, but an organization formed purely to organize the Olympics games scheduled to begin February 13, 1988.

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The Region 6 chapter of the Alberta Native Women's Association (ANWA) elected a new executive at a workshop here, June 20 ? 21, to start working towards incorporating their chapter.

Rose Yellowfeet, newly elected president and a Blood tribe member, told about 30 Native women at the workshop "we've got a lot of work ahead of us."

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Indignant northern Ontario bands hand back money to Bill McKnight

It's not every day that Indian people hand money back to the Government. But that's what six chiefs from Northern Ontario did recently. They collected the treaty money their people recieved this year and returned it to Indian Affairs Minister Bill McKnight. They gave the money back because they say the Government has broken their treaties. It wasn't a lot of money ? only $5,000 or so ? but it's just about the only money they get.

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As a native communications outlet, the Northern Broadcasting Society in Terrace, British Columbia, has an objective to one day reach self-sufficiency.

At present, their efforts for reaching this goal consist of pre-taped radio programs and research into the establishment of community radio stations across northern B.C.

Native Broadcasting officially opened its door in the spring of 1985. The society receives core funding from the Secretary of State (federal government).

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A lightning flash that killed three buffalo on the Morley reserve west of Calgary is responsible for the reinstatement of ecumenical conference, a spiritual gathering hosted by the Good Stoney Band, July 27 to 30.