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For Walter Twinn and the other plaintiffs to say their Federal Court challenge to Bill C-31 is not about anything except protecting Indian communities and the members' right to decide who comprises those communities reveals a truly astounding belief in the gullibility of the general public.

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On July 6, 1995, Judge F. Muldoon of the Federal Court trial division dismissed our claim that sections of the Indian Act are unconstitutional as being inconsistent with section 35 of the Constitution of Canada by infringing the Aboriginal and treaty rights of Indian Bands or First Nations to determine their membership.

We will appeal this Judgement in the Federal Court of Appeal.

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On July 6, 1995, Judge F. Muldoon of the Federal Court trial division dismissed our claim that sections of the Indian Act are unconstitutional as being inconsistent with section 35 of the Constitution of Canada by infringing the Aboriginal and treaty rights of Indian Bands or First Nations to determine their membership.

We will appeal this Judgement in the Federal Court of Appeal.

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Although, it seems Doris Ronnenberg feels uncomfortable with the title role model, her life experiences and the contribution she has made to Native community declare her to be nothing less.

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Although, it seems Doris Ronnenberg feels uncomfortable with the title role model, her life experiences and the contribution she has made to Native community declare her to be nothing less.

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I must and will confess. I recently saw the new Disney film Pocahontas. I was curious to see how the Land of Mickey would treat this all-American Native legend. Briefly, the music was naturally marketable; the animation was, of course, fabulous; animals of the forest cute (though subconsciously you couldn't help knowing Pocahontas's people made a regular habit of eating Bambi and Thumper); and it sort of confirmed the old adage: "Never let facts get in the way of a good story".

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I must and will confess. I recently saw the new Disney film Pocahontas. I was curious to see how the Land of Mickey would treat this all-American Native legend. Briefly, the music was naturally marketable; the animation was, of course, fabulous; animals of the forest cute (though subconsciously you couldn't help knowing Pocahontas's people made a regular habit of eating Bambi and Thumper); and it sort of confirmed the old adage: "Never let facts get in the way of a good story".

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Entertainment

Review

The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba-Ethnography Into History

By Irving A. Hallowell,

128 pages, $25.95 (pb.)

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Our voyage begins in 1930 with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell boarding a steamboat and venturing up Lake Winnipeg-destination Norway House.

Eighty kilometres to the east is a new railroad to Churchill, opened the previous year. A grain elevator, capable of storing two million bushes of grain, had been erected there.

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Entertainment

Review

The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba-Ethnography Into History

By Irving A. Hallowell,

128 pages, $25.95 (pb.)

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Our voyage begins in 1930 with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell boarding a steamboat and venturing up Lake Winnipeg-destination Norway House.

Eighty kilometres to the east is a new railroad to Churchill, opened the previous year. A grain elevator, capable of storing two million bushes of grain, had been erected there.

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Review

This Dragon Won't Sleep

By Don Ross

Sony/Columbia, 1995

The guitar wizardry of Micmac artist Don Ross immediately grabs the listener from the opening note like a jaguar pouncing on its prey and holds on until the closing of the album fades into a deeply satisfied silence. This Dragon Won't Sleep is an amazing compact disc that contains Ross's most impressive work to date.