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One of the highlights of the 1994 Dreamspeaker Film Festival was a four-film series of contemporary Maori dramas. The Nga Puna Maori films brought to Canadian viewers slices of Aboriginal life in New Zealand, from a story about a Maori radio station to a warm portrayal for the love between an old man and his granddaughter.

Karen Sidney, who wrote one of the series' outstanding programs Kahu an Maia, attended the Alberta festival to network with other Aboriginal film makers in hopes of establishing collaborative projects.

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10. Mohawks will beat you if you do.

9. Both parties are into the wet dream of Great Whale and NBR.

8. Romeo Saganash isn't running for either party.

7. Two words: Le Hir.

6. You're waiting for Billy and Walter's Cree Beaver Party to run.

5. The two main leaders look too much like a used care salesman and a used shoe salesman.

4. Tonya Harding's goons have been spotted wielding lead pipes outside your polling station.

3. The last political leader you trusted, Rene Levesque, is dead.

2. Two more wordss: Le Hir.

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Self-government in Manitoba came one step closer to realization after provincial chiefs approved a framework agreement on health care services for their people.

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs ratified the Health Framework Agreement for First Nations Peoples in Manitoba at a two-day conference on First Nations Health held at Dakota Tipi First Nation Aug. 30.

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(This is part one in a series looking at taxation as a means of creating a revenue base for self-government)

As of 1994, 43 First Nations in Canada were in various stages of implementing their own taxation systems; 36 in British Columbia, five in Alberta and one each in Saskatchewan and Ontario.

This trend toward the control of taxation by First Nations in Canada is growing and it marks an important step in the evolution toward self-government.

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Air Creebec was alerted to many of its serious financial and managerial problems about a year and a half ago, when a consulting firm did a detailed analysis of the Cree airline.

The consultants' report was prepared for CreeCo. President Abel Kitchen by the firm Raymond, Chabot, Manin, Pare.

The report said Air Creebec employees had a strong will to turn things around.

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Air Creebec was alerted to many of its serious financial and managerial problems about a year and a half ago, when a consulting firm did a detailed analysis of the Cree airline.

The consultants' report was prepared for CreeCo. President Abel Kitchen by the firm Raymond, Chabot, Manin, Pare.

The report said Air Creebec employees had a strong will to turn things around.

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Things are starting to look up at Air Creebec.

More Natives have been hired. The management team has been restructured and perhaps most importantly, the Cree Nation's airline company is making a profit for the first time in four-and-a-half years.

"Air Creebec has been on the hot seat for quite a long time, and it deserved to be," said the airline's president Albert Diamond.

"Bur now things are starting to turn around. Everyone is pulling together to make this airline work."

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One of the great problems in the world today is that key political, cultural and social decisions are being made by men alone, or by a large majority of men with only minimal participation by women.

This presents a great danger for the world because men, by themselves, are not wise enough or balanced enough. It takes both men and women to keep the world balanced and to protect the interests of future generations.

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As media attention moves its roving eye back to the troubled community of Davis Inlet for a second time in less than two years, it's important to be reminded that what is being seen there today is only a symptom of the chronic problems that continues to plague all Aboriginal communities across the country.

The governments of Canada and her provinces are collectively out of their league in dealing with the needs of this country's first people and turn a blind eye and deaf ear to those people who can show them the way.

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Two Native teenagers from Alaska, armed with sleeping bags and a few select tools, have been shuttled off by fishing boats to two uninhabited islands to spend more than a year in exile.

The 17-year-old youths are being punished for the brutal beating of a pizza delivery man in Everett, Wash., which left the 25-yera-old with permanent damage to his hearing and eyesight.