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Two tragic accidents, only days apart, have taken the lives of Blue Quills Native Education Centre secretary Priscilla Brertton and student Terrance Moosewah.

Nineteen year old Brertton was killed near Lamont the same week Moosewah died on Saddle Lake reserve. Both were residents of the reserve.

Students and staff alike mourned their loss last week and attended both funerals, only days apart.

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The annual meeting for the Federation of Metis Settlements held in Edmonton saw Ernest Howse elected as vice-president on June 27.

Howse, a member of the Metis Settlement of Buffalo Lake (Caslan), was elected after four rounds of secret ballot box voting took place. He defeated two other candidates vying for the position. Alberta Wanuch of Paddle Prairie and Lawrence Cunningham from Peavine.

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The Metis Association of Alberta (MAA) has announced its annual assembly will be held on August 15 and 16 in the Peace River area, at the Bear Lake Stampede grounds (three miles west of Grimshaw).

The assembly will be used to discuss issues and accept nomination for the election, to be held before September 1. However, nominations for candidates will begin on July 2 and close before the assembly on August 1.

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The Indian Association of Alberta (IAA) is about to start a closer working relationship with the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), however, President Gregg Smith sidesteps the question of reconciliation with the assembly.

"We will be working with the AFN but I see it as a protocol arrangement, not a reconciliation. It (IAA) would prefer to see them join us," he added.

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If tehre was a hall of fame for Native communications, Josepi Padlayat and Paul Lumsden would have been in it a long time ago. After all, they built the northern Quebec Inuit broadcast organization and they ran it for years. The organization is Taqramiut Nipingat Incorporated (TNI). Josepi Padlayat used to be the TNI president. Paul Lumsden used to be the administrator. Together, the two men built TNI into a $2-million-a-year operation.

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NATIONAL

Why do we educate ourselves? What purpose does it serve? Is it just to satisfy our curiosity? Is it just to help us make more money and get a better job?

Do we use education to control social behavior and to dominate others?

These questions faced over 1,500 educators at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples' Education held in Vancouver, June 8 to 13.

For six days, those who teach and those who develop curriculum shared their dreams, visions, experiences, concerns and methods of dealing with their problems.

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An alliance of 50 Alberta and Saskatchewan Indian chiefs are refusing to bow to Canadian government policies and tactics designed to alter or remove what they consider their base Treaty rights.

The chiefs who make up the Treaty 6 Chiefs Forum, recently sponsored a delegation to meet with support groups and government in London, England. According to Allen Jacob of Cold Lake, the group is looked upon as "rebels" because of the strong stand they took by not participating in the constitutional talks.

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Northern Alberta Indian bands have led the way in taking control of their membership under Bill C-31.

Seven of the first 12 bands to establish band membership codes in response to Bill C-31 are from northern Alberta, two are from B.C., two from Ontario and one from Saskatchewan.

The first band in the country to take control of its membership was the Sawridge band of Slave Lake. Its membership code went into effect July 8, 1985 ? less than two weeks after C-31 provisions allowing bands to establish codes went into effect.

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EDITORIAL

It's good to see the government reacting positively to a report put together by a working committee regarding Native child welfare services.

And it's fitting to hear a member of the working committee say that, at all times during the child welfare study, the interests of the foster children themselves were kept as top priority ? not the interests of the adults or society in general.

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New-status Indians, who recently received status through Bill C-31 and who are predominantly urban dwellers, are to be represented on the Board of the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA) by a non-voting appointee.

A resolution was made to include "urban Indian" involvement in the association during the final day of the IAA annual assembly after several new status delegates had addressed the meeting calling upon the association to recognize their rights.