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Metis Nation of Alberta (MNA) Zone 1 is actively pursuing framework agreements with the municipal governments within its boundaries.

Those agreements would cover issues such as housing, employment, education, and economic development.

"The Metis people do not settle in the communities to depend on social assistance," said Zone 1 Vice-President Rick Boucher. "This initiative would give us respect and support for each other within our jurisdictions."

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Changes to Early Intervention funding could leave dozens of children and teens at the Kikino Metis Settlement and in Lac la Biche without a place to call their own.

Alberta's Child Services department announced late last year that the province has altered its focus on where early intervention dollars will be spent. The funds will now be directed toward helping children who are already at risk, rather than preventative programs like those offered at the youth centres in Lac la Biche and Kikino.

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This week we begin a three part series linking Canada with the Sioux Lakota Nation in northern United States. To Native people, the boarder between the United States and Canada was artificial and Indians travelled across without notice. The settling of the West created two nations, yet to the Indians the border was not a barrier.

This series covers several "border incidents" involving Louis Riel, Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, and from our own time, Indian prisoner, Leonard Peltier who was extradited from Canada in 1974 and is now serving time in a U.S. prison.

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Acclaimed as the father of contemporary Canadian Native art, the works of Ojibway Indian artist Norval Morrisseau are currently being featured as a one man show in Edmonton until May 2.

For Morrisseau who was bestowed the Order of Canada for his contributions to the art scene, this is his third appearance within 16 months in Edmonton at the Manulife Building. The exhibition is being jointly sponsored by Galal Helmy of EA Studio in Jasper and Canadian-born actor John Vernon and his wife, Nancy.

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Encompassing nearly 75,000 acres of arable Alberta flatland, the 6,000 plus members of the Four Bnads of Hobbema dwell in relative harmony.

The fertile land is, in most cases, suitable for agricultural crops including wheat, oats, barley and canola.

Oil boons have also figured in the financial independence of the Four Bands.

Annual royalties, paid out according to population size, have helped to create the successes of today.

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At 39 years of age, Cardinal is finally gaining long sought recognition and acceptance in his chosen field of endeavor. A Metis and self-taught artist from the small community of Fishing Lake, Cardinal has no regrets for not having completed his high school education. After all, and more importantly he is doing what he likes best to do. In pursuing a vocation in art, he has proven to himself as well as others that education isn't always everything and that one does not necessarily need it in order to be successful.

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Guest Editorial

Newspapers, magazines and other like print material are instruments designed to create an awareness and understanding of what happens in the world around us and to impart such information to the public.

No informational tract, however, can operate in isolation and each has a duty to its readership. That role cannot be accommodated when the self-interests of individuals or groups do not cooperate.

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The Peigan Nation will go to the polls again for the fourth time on April 21 to determine whether the $2.5 million settlement reached in 1981 over a 1909 land claim be distributed among band members.

Albert Yellow Horn Sr., Peigan band councillor and well-known land claims researcher, said the Band Cuoncil is recommending to its membership that they accept the out of court settlement rather than pursuing the matter in federal court.

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In the summer of 1984 AMMSA conducted a community survey in virtually every Native community in northern Alberta. The purpose of the survey was to generate the opinions of Native people as to what kinds of interests and preferences they might have in terms of radio, television and newspaper programs and information.

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If you want an example of some people who are fighting the good fight just look at what's going on in Big Trout Lake. Two years ago Big Trout Lake was like a lot of other Indian villages ? it had an alcohol problem. It doesn't have one now ? at least it's not as big as it used to be ? but the band has other problems because of the fight it's putting up to beat the bottle.