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Ten members were elected to the Board of Directors for the IAA during the final day of the annual assembly held in Eden Valley June 15, 16, and 17.

As results were reported, a tie for one board position in the Treaty 7 area between former treasurer Frances Weaselfat and Alfred Dixon was announced.

In accordance with IAA bylaws the two names were place in a hat and a one extra vote was given to the name drawn. Alfred Dixon's name was chosen and he was awarded an extra vote.

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A three-man "dictator-like" committee armed with widespread powers and the ability to control the purse strings of every Indian nation has been put into place by the federal government warns IAA official, Peter Many Wounds Jr.

In an emotional address at the assembly on the new corporate plan released by the Department of Indian Affairs recently, Many Wounds demanded that all DIA officials immediately leave the room.

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Grant Burwash of Leduc is suing the Alberta Amateur Boxing Association for $100,000. Burwash claism the association failed to ensure the fight was judged fairly.

The bout in question took place at the Edmonton's Canadian Native Friendship Centre on April 26. Burwash took to the ring with Fort McMurray's Brent Marchand in the Alberta championship title, when Burwash was allegedly hit by a low blow. Referee Joe McGowan stopped the fight since Burwash was unable to go on. A tally of the score up to that point gave Marchand a split decision over Burwash.

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Students at Edmonton's Edith Rogers junior high school erected a 21-foot totem pole that they built themselves. Every year the school has multicultural celebrations, and this year they are focussing on Native Canadians.

The 21-foot log was brought in from British Columbia. Carving had to begin immediately while the log was still wet. The students worked in shifts, six students at a time, until 7 or 8 p.m. and on weekends using only chisels and mallets. The totem pole was completed in 14 days.

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An Austrian museum curator has charged that American Indian Movement (AIM) tactics are "very much apparent" in the Lubicon Lake Olympic boycott.

He claims that "the Lubicon themselves certainly would not have had this idea" and goes even further by saying, "their advisor (Fred Lennarson) is a form AIM employee and even if he was not, this is a strategy . . . practised by AIM in the U.S.A. in the '70s."

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Although there haven't been any reported AIDS cases in Alberta's Native population, Indian Association of Alberta (IAA) vice-president Lawrence Courtoreille says, "I'd be very concerned if the AIDS (virus) started to hit the Indian communities.

"It never ceases to amaze me ? the type of diseases that follow the whiteman," says Courtoreille, "TB and smallpox that almost wiped us out, then cancer and other diseases."

Recently, Manitoba health experts said the first AIDS-related death of a Native is reason for alarm in the northern community.

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A long, heated and at times emotional debate on the participation of Indian nations in the Calgary winter olympic games dominated the final day of the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA) annual assembly.

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This year marked ten years since the first Blue Quills Morning Star class graduated from the two year program.

Saturday June 20, some of the 18 who completed it were reunited at the graduation-reunion celebrations.

The Morning Star Program was set up jointly by the now defunct Alberta Indian Education Centre and the University of Alberta. The Blue Quills Native Education Council picked up the program.

For one year, Morning Star was the only post-secondary program at Blue Quills.

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A new report was released recently on the subject of battered women and it reminded me of a line in an old Humphrey Bogart movie: "The only thing a dame understands is a slap in the face or a slug from a .45."

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The president of the Indian Resource Council blasted government for its "Thatcherism" and likened the deputy minister to Adolf Eichmann, the notorious Nazi commander executed for his part of atrocities committed against Jews during the Second World War.

In a scathing attack on recent policies, Joe Dion, president of the Indian Association from 1977 to 1980, called upon delegates to form a unified front against recent policy changes.

"It's the old right-wing attitude. It's Thatcherism transported from England," he says.