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Guest Column

The issue of fisheries is becoming more and more important, especially with the tremendous depletion of important species in virtually all parts of North America.

Native nations need to take a good, hard look at the marine and lake fisheries issue, along with the related issues of shellfish, sea vegetables, and crustaceans.

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Native nations are pushing back, bumping bellies with the big boys, putting a collective food down and says 'We're just not going to take your garbage anymore.' And all there is to say about this phenomenon is "It's more than about time.'

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Native nations are pushing back, bumping bellies with the big boys, putting a collective food down and says 'We're just not going to take your garbage anymore.' And all there is to say about this phenomenon is "It's more than about time.'

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More than 175 Assembly of First Nations chiefs who met near Calgary Sept. 21 and 22 voted to administer a dose of political pressure to ailing relations between the assembly and Health and Welfare Canada.

"We know that the government has not been listening to Native leaders for a long time," Said National Chief Ovide Mercredi at the national emergency chiefs' meeting on First Nations' health. "(The government) has clearly demonstrated a lack of respect."

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More than 175 Assembly of First Nations chiefs who met near Calgary Sept. 21 and 22 voted to administer a dose of political pressure to ailing relations between the assembly and Health and Welfare Canada.

"We know that the government has not been listening to Native leaders for a long time," Said National Chief Ovide Mercredi at the national emergency chiefs' meeting on First Nations' health. "(The government) has clearly demonstrated a lack of respect."

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A Native group from Winnipeg, hoping to raise awareness of the many serious problems facing the country's Aboriginal youth, ended a 10-week walk across Western Canada when they arrived in Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, on Sept. 13.

The group, which calls itself the Native Youth Movement and its trek Walk and Talk '95, wants people in positions of responsibility to understand that youth suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence and youth gangs are problems that require immediate attention.

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A Native group from Winnipeg, hoping to raise awareness of the many serious problems facing the country's Aboriginal youth, ended a 10-week walk across Western Canada when they arrived in Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, on Sept. 13.

The group, which calls itself the Native Youth Movement and its trek Walk and Talk '95, wants people in positions of responsibility to understand that youth suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence and youth gangs are problems that require immediate attention.

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We won't go.

That's what thousands of Quebec Crees said on Oct. 24 in a vote on whether they agreed to letting the Quebec government appropriate the James Bay Crees and their traditional lands into a sovereign Quebec.

"We are no longer prepared to be treated like cattle in the field," said Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Quebec Crees, at a Montreal press conference Oct. 25. "We and our territory will not be forcibly included in an independent Quebec."

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We won't go.

That's what thousands of Quebec Crees said on Oct. 24 in a vote on whether they agreed to letting the Quebec government appropriate the James Bay Crees and their traditional lands into a sovereign Quebec.

"We are no longer prepared to be treated like cattle in the field," said Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Quebec Crees, at a Montreal press conference Oct. 25. "We and our territory will not be forcibly included in an independent Quebec."

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The Government of Alberta has officially withdrawn from an agreement between Chief Bernard Ominayak of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation and former Premier Don Getty.

Alberta's withdrawal from the 1988 Grimshaw Accord was announced in Grande Prairie in early October by Mike Cardinal, minister responsible for Aboriginal Affairs.