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Davis Inlet kept busy Wednesday, Sept. 7 reinforcing the blockade of their runway and getting ready for an invasion, of sorts, by RCMP.

More lumber and heavy equipment was added to accompany the existing oil barrels and other debris scattered across the airstrip. The community's leader, Chief Simeon Tshakapesh, said they were digging in for the long haul.

The protest against the imposition of a justice system that did not suit the culture or improve the situation of the people of Davis Inlet had so far proved effective.

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Representatives from the Indian, Metis and Inuit communities have joined forces in planning a friendly takeover of the Charles Campsell Hospital.

The groups want to transform the facility, due to close its door to the public this December, into a Native-run health care centre. This a centre would combine traditional healing methods and conventional medicine under one roof.

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According to a number of studies, fetal nutrition may have an effect on the development of diabetes later in life.

A study of Pima Indians in the southwest United States showed an increased risk of non-insulin dependent diabetes in adults who were low birth-weight babies.

Another study of Mexican Americans showed a relationship between low birth weight and the "insulin resistance syndrome" associated with diabetes and other diseases.

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The journey was made o foot, from their homes in northeastern Alberta to the federal government building in Edmonton, 431 kilometres to the south.

Members of the Paul Cree Indian Band near For McMurray chose to make the 11-day trip to protest government inaction on a land claim outstanding for 73 years.

the time they'd reached their destination on Aug. 31 some of the walkers were sick, most were tired and all were more determined than ever to have their issues with the federal government resolved, said Chief Robert Cree.

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A traditional sentencing circle is not in the cards for Peigan activist Milton Born With A Tooth.

Justice Willis O'Leary discounted the ceremony, saying the man convicted of weapons offences has neither admitted to any wrong doing or showed any remorse for what he has done.

"In my view his community will not benefit substantially from a sentencing circle," said O'Leary. He said the accused must first show a willingness to be rehabilitated before a sentencing circle would be considered.

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There will be two men vying for the top spot of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs in an election slated for Sept. 14.

When nominations closed for the position of Grand Chief Sept. 2 two candidates were declared. Incumbent Philip Fontaine will face contender Roderick Bushie in a bid to lead the 60 member chiefs of the organization.

Bushie is the former chief of Hollow Water First Nation, a position he has held for several terms. He also served as chair-person of the Southeast Resource Development Council Corporation.

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Native fisherman Joe LaBobe believes non-Native commercial fishermen in P.E.I. are beginning to forget a simple fact of Canadian life. That being non-Native have the privilege of fishing Canadian waters, and Native fishermen have that right.

LaBobe has watched the tensions rise over the years between the two opposing groups. He was not surprised when the atmosphere on the island turned ugly Sept. 6.

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Aboriginal leaders in Quebec and Labrador are disappointed that public hearings have been called into the plan to increase low-level military flights over Innu land.

The 26 days of hearings are scheduled to begin Sept. 19 despite strong objections from the Innu.

The Federal Environmental Assessment Plan ignored the 130 deficiencies identified by Innu experts in the Department of National Defence Environmental Impact Study, said Daniel Ashini, Director of Innu Rights and Environment for the Innu Nation.

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Innu leaders in Davis Inlet, Labrador have succeeded in stalling Newfoundland Justice Minister Edward Roberts' attempts to reinstate the sitting of the provincial court in that community.

The Innu blockaded the lone airstrip into the community on Sept. 6, frustrating the government's plan to fly in court officials.

The Innu set up dozens of oil drums on the airstrip and the people of the community, occupied the strip, making it too dangerous to land.

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If Eagleribs was alive today he would smile with approval. The vision that the Tsuu T'ina medicine warrior related to the Elders more than 100 years ago is coming true.

The boxes he saw surrounding the reserve - suburban homes, just beyond the reserve's eastern border - are bringing opportunity, not danger, just as he prophesied in 1883.

And right now that opportunity is tourism.

Chief Roy Whitney and the nine-member council recently approved a major tourism development project for the Nation.