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Native youth attending Elijah Harper's Sacred Assembly in Hull, Quebec last month said No to accepting the torch from Elders in a closing ceremony.

And they blamed their parents and their grandparents for not teaching them the traditional ways.

"You want us to take this fire, but we don't know how because you never taught us," one young man said.

Edie O'Mara said she refused to pass on the scroll of reconciliation to people of other nations, another part of the ceremony, "because we can't welcome other nations until our own people accept us."

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Aboriginal groups working on preventing the spread of HIV received an unexpected Christmas gift this month.

The Aboriginal Health Strategy Fund, a new incentive by Alberta Health, has released $30,000 in special project grants for programs dealing with the prevention of HIV in Aboriginal communities, and the care with HIV. The grants are intended to fund small, community-based projects.

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Aboriginal groups working on preventing the spread of HIV received an unexpected Christmas gift this month.

The Aboriginal Health Strategy Fund, a new incentive by Alberta Health, has released $30,000 in special project grants for programs dealing with the prevention of HIV in Aboriginal communities, and the care with HIV. The grants are intended to fund small, community-based projects.

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When Kathleen Greene was eight years old, they told her she had to go to residential school or her father would go to jail. So she went, kicking and screaming.

The kicking and screaming didn't last. Once inside the school, Greene soon learned how to endure the insults, the sexual abuse and beatings without tears.

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When Kathleen Greene was eight years old, they told her she had to go to residential school or her father would go to jail. So she went, kicking and screaming.

The kicking and screaming didn't last. Once inside the school, Greene soon learned how to endure the insults, the sexual abuse and beatings without tears.

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The Federal Court of Canada handed down a decision July 6 support-ing Bill C-31, which restored status to 118,000 Indians who had lost it through various means, including women who had married white men.

The 1985 bill was challenged by the Sawridge First nation in northern Alberta, led by Chief Walter Twinn, the Tsuu T'ina First Nation outside Calgary and the Ermineskin First Nation of Hobbema.

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The Federal Court of Canada handed down a decision July 6 support-ing Bill C-31, which restored status to 118,000 Indians who had lost it through various means, including women who had married white men.

The 1985 bill was challenged by the Sawridge First nation in northern Alberta, led by Chief Walter Twinn, the Tsuu T'ina First Nation outside Calgary and the Ermineskin First Nation of Hobbema.

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A small group of Kanehsatake residents is cultivating millions of dol-lars worth of marijuana and the authorities are turning a blind eye, says resi-dents of this Mohawk community wet of Montreal.

One Mohawk, who asked to remain anonymous, said that local dope growers have admitted to paying off police officers to avoid being investi-gated. The marijuana is being grown in at least three large fields owned by the Mohawks and the federal government, and possible as many as eight fields.

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A small group of Kanehsatake residents is cultivating millions of dol-lars worth of marijuana and the authorities are turning a blind eye, says resi-dents of this Mohawk community wet of Montreal.

One Mohawk, who asked to remain anonymous, said that local dope growers have admitted to paying off police officers to avoid being investi-gated. The marijuana is being grown in at least three large fields owned by the Mohawks and the federal government, and possible as many as eight fields.

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News

Non-insured health benefits, including things like eyeglasses, dental services, prescription drugs and medical supplies, may be cut or severely re-stricted under new budget guidelines being hammered out by Health Canada.

A letter sent to the Assembly of First Nations and signed by assistant deputy Health minister Paul Cochrane said there are five options the medical services branch of Health and Welfare is considering:

Prioritization of all medical services branch programs;

Review of all non-insured benefits and benefit levels;