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George Chatsis, a 43-year-old full-blooded Cree Indian from the Poundmaker Reserve in Saskatchewan, will be the New Democratic Party candidate in the riding of Calgary Buffalo.

Chatsis won the nomination at a nomination meeting March 13. His candidacy breaks new political ground in the Calgary area as it is the first time that a full-blood Indian has run in a provincial election in a Calgary riding.

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Statistics Canada, with the involvement of Employment and Immigration Canada, has launched a recruitment program that will be directed at the engagement of students and youth for the census representative portions.

There are also employment opportunities for individuals other than students or youth for census positions.

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Lack of employment for Native people in the oil industry at Cold Lake, Bonnyville and St. Paul and the area is a real concern for Eric Ward, the vice-president and chairman of the Zone 2 Regional Council for the Metis Association of Alberta (MAA).

Recently in Edmonton on a business trip, Ward explained some of the problems that Metis Locals and Native people generally are facing and what they are doing about the lack of employment in the area.

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On March 14, I joined a trainload of people at the CN station in Edmonton, who were enroute to Vancouver to support the Haida Indians.

The Haidas have been trying since 1974 to stop logging on certain areas of their traditional ancestral lands, specifically Lyell Island and South Moresby Islands in the Queen Charlottes.

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Grouard residents fear that plans are underway to move major Alberta Vocational Centre programs to High Prairie, and that this is the first step in plans to move the entire facility to High Prairie.

Grouard was once a major fur trading post, but today the community of 250 relies on the vocational centre almost entirely for its economic base.

Fred Dumont, director of Alberta Vocational Centre, claims that "moving from an isolated centre would cause participation rates to increase with the added convenience of the amenities of an urban centre."

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HEART LAKE RESERVE - "Because of how much I care about and love this reserve and its people, I found the decision to resign as your chief after 22 years to be the hardest decision I have ever had to make," Eugene Monias told his band members at a meeting called to perform his last duties as chief, March 27.

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Support for the Lubicon Lake Indian Band's position in its conflict with the Alberta government has come from a federally-appointed mediator.

A discussion paper leaked to the media, prepared by E. Davie Fulton, a former Conservative federal justice minister, supports the Band's request for about 200 square kilometres of land, rather than the 65 square kilometres offered by Alberta Native Affairs Minister Milt Pahl.

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No one would have thought that so many people would have attended the film premiere of Honor of All, but the gymnasium was packed to capacity March 22 at the Poundmaker/Nechi Centre, 10 km north of Edmonton.

The two-part film tells the story of the Alkali Lake Indian Band near Williams Lake, British Columbia's fight against total alcoholism on their reserve, to where today, approximately 95 per cent of the band are abstainers of alcohol.

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The Kid cuts loose

Ahneen, say if you happen to have a cup of coffee or tea and a few minutes to spare, please pay me the compliment of reading on for the next little while.

As promised from last week, this is the part in which the foster kids is cut loose on an unsuspecting world.

After high school I went to university in the states for a year. Well, between woman problems and drinking problems I didn't have time or energy left over for classroom problems. As a result, me and my problems took off on a bus to Winnipeg.

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A series of healing ceremonies were held in Hobbema, Alexis and Alexander, during lent, with the final one being celebrated at the Native Pastoral Centre in Edmonton on Mach 19.

Lucienne Meek, a Metis and a leader in the charismatic movement, led the celebration and gave witness to the fact that we are all the Great Spirit's (God's) hands to the world, that we are all gifted with the gift of healing.

Meek shared with the congregation some of her life experiences and how God helped her.