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Non-Natives see it as a fight for long overdue justice. But B.C. Indians see it as more than that. It's a fight for survival.

Without land and title, say the Indians, the province's aboriginal people will eventually cease to exist.

And that's why, for the past month, bands across the province have been staging a series of roadblocks.

It's the only way they can get Ottawa and the provincial government to listen to their land claims.

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"We were not terrorists," ex-Felquiste Paul Rose told writer Ann Charney in an interview published in Saturday Night in 1984.

"We wanted to avoid terrorizing the population," explained Rose, who served 12 years of a life term for the October 1970 "execution" of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte - a murder official inquiries later suggested he didn't commit.

Out of solidarity, however, Rose accepted responsibility along with Felquistes who were involved.

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There's not much humor to come out of the terribly serious confrontations at Oka and Kahnawake. But Oka's mayor, Jean Ouellette, provides the closest thing to a smile.

Mr. Ouellette has chutzpah. In abundance.

It's sometimes said the best example of a person with chutzpah is the fellow who killed both his parents with an axe and then asked the judge for leniency on grounds he was an orphan.

Mr. Ouellette has little to learn from home.

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The Canadian government is up to its old tricks.

And it's doing a masterful job.

But then it has decades of experience in deception to draw on.

In the heat of the standoffs in Quebec, a high-ranking Indian affairs' official accused Mohawk Warriors of being nothing less than a "gang of criminals."

Harry Swain (he's referred to rather unlovingly by some Natives as Swine), of course when making his comments didn't know they were going to be made public.

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Elijah Harper doesn't want Mohawk Warriors at Oka to put down their guns.

Once they do, he warned, the police will move in and arrest them.

Although he doesn't personally support violence as an instrument of change, he asks: Who's pointing the guns?"

The only reason police haven't invaded Kanesatake Territory is because the Mohawks are "sticking to their positions," he told reporters following a speech here to about 100 Indians.

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An environmental study, sponsored by the provincial government, misjudges the effects of contaminated fish on northern Alberta Native people, according to a leading Alberta ecologist.

David Schindler said a recent report issued by Finish consulting group Jaako Poyry is weak in determining that fish in the Athabasca-Peace River river systems is harmful to the people who depend on it for survival - namely Natives.

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A fence erected at Lac Ste Anne to control an alleged drug and alcohol problem fed to an angry confrontation between pilgrims and security guards.

A crowd of angry people tried to prevent the gate from being locked at the annual pilgrimage July 22-26.

Drug dealers were believed to be plying their trade and using children as runners to pass between privately-owned by Oblate fathers.

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Metis Fred House has been on the campaign trail for the last couple of months seeking the job as president of the MAA.

He's been as far north as Grande Prairie, his home riding, and Fort McMurray and as far south as Calgary.

House recently registered his name as a candidate with the electoral office of the Metis Association of Alberta.

With MAA elections drawing nearer (Sept. 4), House says one of his goals if elected is to ensure Metis at the community level will be given to opportunity to participate in MAA decision-making.

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Blood Chief Roy Fox said his band has categorically rejected suggestions of reprisals against French advocated in a memorandum recently received at the Blood tribe office.

The memorandum received the week of July 20 encourages aboriginal people to take action against French people in Western Canada if Quebec moves against the Mohawks again.

The transcribed memo read in part: "If the French in Quebec seize Indian lands, Indians must seize French lands in response. If the French destroy Indian buildings and barricades, Indians must destroy French buildings."

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The Goodstoney Nation of Morley has strongly condemned the federal government for lack of leadership in resolving the standoff between Mohawk Indians and police officers in Quebec.

In a prepared statement Chief John Snow said he strongly supported "our Mohawk brothers and sisters in their fight for aboriginal and treaty rights."

"We are extremely concerned with the lack of progress and the continuing confrontation at Oka, Quebec."