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Leslie McLaren plans to speak out in support of Native people whenever the opportunity arises during her reign as Miss Canada 1991.

McLaren said she is amazed "how much ignorance about Native culture there is out there" and hopes her year as Miss Canada will give her many opportunities to speak out favorably on behalf of Indian people throughout the country.

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Native environmentalist Dhyani Ywahoo has been a spiritual mentor to Milton Born With A Tooth of the Lonefighters Society for the last 12 years.

They met in 1978 on the Longest Walk, a march across the United States to protest the government's plans to dissolve all Indian treaties.

Her title is Chief Umwiyuhu of Etahwa Cherokee Nation. It means she is a thick-skinned leader and a walking-stick to help people over rough places.

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Milton Born With A Tooth leaned forward and placed his hand on the note paper.

"My world cannot be documented on your white paper with words. Your dictionaries reveal the white society and show how whites go in circles. Words simply refer to words and are only excuses for what's real The real world is about fresh air as medicine going into my lungs and the enjoyment of each meal as my last one."

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The first all-Native staffed correctional center in Canada has opened its door on the Blood reserve.

The 24-bed minimum security Kainai Correctional Center is unique to Canada and is the only program of its type in North America, says director Allan Par.

"We're different because we deal mainly with sentence inmates of three months or less and we focus heavily on human elations and life skills programs. We're more program-oriented than custody-oriented."

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The director of the National Parole Board of Canada says he wants the organization to become more sensitive to Natives in order to make parole more accessible to them.

Fred Gibson says he wants members of the board to "sensitize themselves to the realities of Native culture." Gibson says he also wants to see the community more involved in understanding Natives.

"Canadians have to work together to understands Natives and to support the reality of integration."

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Daishowa Canada officials say the Lubicon Lake Indians band misunderstood the details of a verbal agreement made in 1988. Jum Morrison, the general manager f Daishowa's corporate offices in Edmonton, says "no commitments were made in 1988. We expressed sympathy toward the lubicons. We have fulfilled all our obligations with them. They understood the agreement much differently than we did."

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Ottawa will spend about $30 million in Alberta and the Northwest Territories on a new aboriginal employment and training program.

Nationwide, the federal governments' plans to spend $200 million under the new strategy - called Pathways to Success - to build a skilled aboriginal workforce, says the employment minister's special adviser on aboriginal policies.

Howard Green says the strategy was developed jointly be Native groups and Barbara McDougall's ministry.

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Lac la Biche RCMP are no closer to discovering who fired a bullet at the home of Emil Cardinal, former Metis Nation vice-president candidate, says an RCMP spokesman.

Stephane Jac says RCMP have made no arrests in the Nov. 19 incident in which a shot was fired into Cardinal's Lac la Biche trailer home.

Cardinal's wife Beverly and daughter Florence were home at the time of the shooting but were not hurt when the .22 caliber bullet entered the front of the trailer and ricocheted into the master bedroom where it became lodged in the wall.

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There was a moment during Dances with Wolves when the forgotten returned. Somewhere during Kevin Costner's historical film I recalled a scene from my life I hadn't thought of in decades.

When I was a small boy, abducted by white people through a strange system called fostercare, we were choosing up sides for a rousing Saturday afternoon episode of :Cowboys and Indians." Only back in those innocent days it was "Cowboys and Itchybums."

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Ever since the white man darkened the shores of North America, Native people have been caught between a rock and a hard place.

In 1990 that rock and that hard place, more often than not, is the provincial government and the federal government respectively.

Native people are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Take the Lubicon Lake Indian band for instance.

The federal government has little interest in settling the band's 50-year-old land-claim dispute.