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It promises to be a heated fall for Quebec First Nations as the separatist government in Quebec City keeps its promise to hold a referendum on sovereignty in 1995.

Still stuck at around 50 per cent support or less, the separatists have their hands full with a deeply divided public. Ardent opposition from the First Nations isn't making their lives any easier.

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Review

Buried in Silence

By Connie Sampson

190 pages, $15.95 (pb.)

NeWest Press, Edmonton

"The whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is untrue. Only his own best deeds, only the worst of the Indians, has the white man told."

--Yellow Wolf of the Nez Perce

"While much is too strange to be believe, nothing is too strange to have happened."

--Thomas Hardy

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Review

Buried in Silence

By Connie Sampson

190 pages, $15.95 (pb.)

NeWest Press, Edmonton

"The whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is untrue. Only his own best deeds, only the worst of the Indians, has the white man told."

--Yellow Wolf of the Nez Perce

"While much is too strange to be believe, nothing is too strange to have happened."

--Thomas Hardy

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For more than 30 years, Buffy Sainte-Marie has been moving audiences the world over with her distinctive singing and tell-it-like-it-is writing styles.

While she was first known as a folk singer and writer of protest songs in the 60s, Sainte-Marie has been inspired to write love songs as well as songs for children.

"The songs I wrote back then are still valid," she said after a performance at Joseph Bighead First Nations near Pierceland, Sask. on Aug. 7.

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For more than 30 years, Buffy Sainte-Marie has been moving audiences the world over with her distinctive singing and tell-it-like-it-is writing styles.

While she was first known as a folk singer and writer of protest songs in the 60s, Sainte-Marie has been inspired to write love songs as well as songs for children.

"The songs I wrote back then are still valid," she said after a performance at Joseph Bighead First Nations near Pierceland, Sask. on Aug. 7.

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Review

Young Northern Voices

Various

BushLeague Records

The compilation of 21 children's songs that were performed by grade 5 to grade 12 students was produced with the assistance of Metis singer Don Freed and engineered by Del Ryan. The project began in the spring of 1993 with the blessings of the Northern Lights School Division and the La Ronge First Nation in Northern Saskatchewan.

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Review

Pat Braden: Listen to your heart

Self-produced, 1994

In May, Pat Braden released his second solo recording ? on cassette. He plays an interesting and seldom-promoted instrument called a Chapman Stick. This extra-wide fret-board incorporates 10 strings of both the bass and regular guitar and is played by plucking, strumming or striking. It's not to be confused with a double-necked guitar. Depending on the equipment it's run through, it can sound like either a guitar or a synthesizer.

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Review

Pat Braden: Listen to your heart

Self-produced, 1994

In May, Pat Braden released his second solo recording ? on cassette. He plays an interesting and seldom-promoted instrument called a Chapman Stick. This extra-wide fret-board incorporates 10 strings of both the bass and regular guitar and is played by plucking, strumming or striking. It's not to be confused with a double-necked guitar. Depending on the equipment it's run through, it can sound like either a guitar or a synthesizer.

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Recently I turned the magical age of 33 far-too-experienced years. And it hurt. That particular event was difficult enough but then I remembered a good friend telling me that when he turned 33, he described it as being his "Christ" year. Evidently Jesus Christ was 33 years old when he died. Charming.

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Recently I turned the magical age of 33 far-too-experienced years. And it hurt. That particular event was difficult enough but then I remembered a good friend telling me that when he turned 33, he described it as being his "Christ" year. Evidently Jesus Christ was 33 years old when he died. Charming.