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Where have all the fish gone? They may not have been there in the first place, said Ernie Crey, a spokesman for the Sto:lo Fisheries Authority.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans have reported that of the fish it counted entering the Fraser River system, 1.3 million salmon have gone missing on their way to spawning grounds.

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Tripartite land claim negotiations for Davis Inlet have been suspended until the Innu allow the provincial court to operate in their community again.

This was the edict of Newfoundland Minister of Justice Edward Roberts when the military and RCMP-backed attempt to restore the court by force failed earlier this month.

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Family and friends of activist Milton Born With A Tooth called it a moral victory as he was sentenced on weapons charges recently.

The leader of the Peigan Lonefighter Society was handed a 16-month term on five weapons charges related to the group's stand against RCMP at the Oldman River dam in September 1990.

"For us it's been a victory," said his sister Lorna Born With A Tooth, who fought back tears outside the courthouse.

"We've brought the eyes of the world watching what's happening to the Oldman River Dam."

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Manitoba chiefs gave their enthusiastic endorsement to Phil Fontaine by overwhelmingly electing him to a third term as Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

Fontaine, 49, was re-elected on the second day of the AMC's sixth annual assembly held in Winnipeg on Sept. 24. He defeated challenger Rob Bushie by a margin of 41 to 17 votes cast by 58 of the 61 chiefs within the alliance.

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As Quebecers went to the polls to elect a near-record number of separatists to power, Cree Elder Robbie Matthew Sr. was getting ready for his yearly four-month stint on his trapline. Like the vast majority of Native peoples in Quebec, he didn't vote.

"Myself, I was not really concerned about who won and who lost. Myself, I was more concerned about what are we going to do about the land issue," said Matthew, a trapper from Chisasibi, the community most affected by Hydro-Quebec's James Bay hydroelectric project.

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REVIEW

Brother Frank's Gospel Hour

W.P. Kinsella

Harper Collins, 190 pages, $23

As books go, W.P. Kinsella's latest is like a badly behaved and unrepentant teenager. Brother Frank's Gospel Hour is full of deliberately obnoxious attitudes and habits.

For his 16th book, Kinsella revisits his fictional favorite, a rowdy group of Natives he first created years ago who are loosely based on the four Hobbema bands. Frank Fencepost, Silas Ermineskin, Fat Etta and the others are once again up to their old tricks in these 11 short stories.

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Time is running out for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake to complete environmental assessments under a trilateral agreement signed by the Algonquins, the federal and Quebec governments.

The agreement was signed in 1991 but the Quebec government refused to honor it, delaying the implementation. Now, the work will not be completed by the time the agreement expires, said Russell Diabo, Algonquin spokesperson.

"We're concerned the Quebec government is going to come in and say the job wasn't done. We're asking for a two-year extension."

Swan Hills chiefs protest plans to import toxic waste for treatment.

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Toxic substances are moving up the food chain in the Swan Hills area in northwestern Alberta, and the provincial government is funding the company which is putting them there.

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Golden eagles are occasionally sighed these days flying high above the Akwesasne Mohawk territory that straddles the international border alongside the polluted waters of the St. Lawrence River near Cornwall in Eastern Ontario.

The return of the majestic bird, which has a special spiritual significance to Mohawks, is a sign of hope for Henry Lickers, director of the Akwesasne Mohawk Council's environment department on the Canadian side of the Native territory.

"It's an indicator of something happening," the Mohawk biologist said. "There

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The voices of Native youth in the prison system don't come out in a recent report on youth justice in Saskatchewan, just cold, hard facts, much like the cold, hard prison walls which surround them.

Aboriginal youth are over-represented in the courts, remanded in custody more often than non-Aboriginal youth, and sentenced to custody more frequently, according to the report.