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Natives don't think much of cops, the courts, and the prison system - even when Natives are the victims of crime.

And most of those polled in a recent Indian Association of Alberta survey of 32 Alberta bands had firsthand experience with the system - 40 per cent as victims and 57 per cent as offenders.

A strong majority felt Natives "are less likely to receive a fair trial than non-Natives," says the survey completed earlier this year by an independent company with no ax to grind.

Most Natives don't think the public cares.

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The Indian Association of Alberta wants the province to appoint a super boss to help the government transfer criminal justice powers - police, courts, parole - to Alberta's First Nations.

The IAA recommends the appointee - to be called the Chief Advocate for the Office For First Nations Justice Services - have the power of a deputy minister.

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Meech Lake hero Elijah Harper thinks education and the ballot box can do what violence can't - give Natives the power to rue themselves.

Reacting to thunderous applause and repeated standing ovations recently from about 300 people attending the second annual Maskwachees Cultural College graduation, he told Natives to use the democratic process to beat back decades of domination and discrimination by the white majority.

The Manitoba MLA said he couldn't have killed the Meech Lake accord unless he was part of the political system - and knew how it worked.

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The prospect of a logger-Indian confrontation has caused Japanese-owned forestry and pulp giant Daishowa to buckle to Lubicon Lake Cree Nation demands - for now.

Wayne Crouse, Daishowa's communications co-ordinator, told Windspeaker there'll be "no logging in Lubicon claimed areas by Daishowa, its contractors or subsidiaries."

But that's just this year, he warned, adding that he thinks it unfair to be caught in the middle of a federal-provincial fight with the band over ubicon land claims.

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Natives are condemning a Federal Report released August 29 that calls for the slaughter of 4,200 bison at Wood Buffalo National Park.

George Kurzewski a spokesman for several Native Bands near the park, which straddles the border between Alberta and the Northwest Territories, says the killing of the bison is an unwarranted measure.

Kurzewski, a buffalo hunter from Fort Smith, British Columbia, says the panel based their recommendations on information that is thirty five years old.

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The following article is excerpted from "A Sharing with Those Who Know", a book being written by former Windspeaker editor Dianne Meili to commemorate elders from ten different nations in Alberta. The collection of inter views ad poetry will accompanies by color photographs. Dianne Meili is the great-granddaughter of Victoria Calihoo, a well-known Cree elder born in 1860 in the Edmonton area. "A Sharing with Those Who Know" will be published in 1991.

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As a national hero among Indians across Canada and widely recognized as the man who killed Meech Lake accord, Elijah Harper is aware of his role as a politician-come-celebrity.

Yet it isn't easy for him. "I still can't get used to it," The Manitoba Native MLA said during a recent interview while he was visiting southern Alberta.

However, leadership is not new to Elijah.

As a member of student council in high school, Elijah set the course for his future profession.

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There's an old cabin somewhere in Indian country.

Actually, the cabin has long since lost the battle to the ravages of time but its foundations might still be visible. It lies nestled somewhere in the rough and tangle in the northern Ontario bush.

In the mid-50s, the Wagamese family lived here and for a short time experienced together the last vestiges of the traditional Ojibway life.

The cabin, the family and the way of life have all undergone some drastic alterations in the last 35 years.

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The tactics used by Alberta's Attorney General Ken Rostad and the RCMP to rid themselves of Milton Born With A Tooth and his Lonefighters Society stands right up there with the handling of the Mohawks at Oka, by the Quebec provincial police.

Lonefighters' leader Born With A Tooth is condemned by the provincial government and media, as a "militant," a "renegade Indian" and now for the past three weeks he sits in a jail cell.

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Organizers of this summer's North American Indigenous Games, which attracted 4,000 Native athletes from across the continent, say they are close to finding a solution for an estimated $40,000 deficit the games ran up. Among measures to see the debt clean up within a couple of months, are plans to hold casinos. The debt was encountered when more athletes than planned participated in Games events.