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The treatment of Native people in Canada is shabby and unjust, says a former Liberal member of Parliament.

Keith Penner, who chaired a 1983 parliamentary committee on Native self-government, want an end to the withering away of aboriginal rights. He is calling on the federal government to stop "the century old habit of alternating between two ridiculous policies that have been used to deal with Natives."

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Is racism on the rise in this country?

I believe the answer is yes. Just ask retired broadcaster Keigh Rutherford who was beaten and partially blinded in one eye when two neo-Nazi skinheads attacked him outside his home near Edmonton because of a broadcast he id in 1960 on alleged Nazi war criminals.

It's been 30 years since his broadcast and he's attacked by young men barely in their twenties!

It proves racism never sleeps.

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Prime Minister Brian Mulroney brushed aside concerns about Canada's international image during the summer of Native discontent.

Canada's international reputation was just fine, he said: the government's abdication of leadership in the Oka crisis wasn't a factor in a "law and order" problem.

Now that the United Nations human rights committee has censured Canada's dealing with Native grievances and its restrictions on a free press, perhaps the prime minister will find time to worry about the way Canada is perceived elsewhere.

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A letter circulating in Lethbridge calling for the murder of aboriginal people is hardly a lark.

Fil Fraser, head of Alberta's Human Rights Commission, says insulting racial minorities is turning into the fad of the 1990s.

It's replaced things like mooning and streaking, he says.

Some people get a "cheap thrill" by making racial slurs, he says.

C'mon, get serious.

Circulating hate literature which says it's open season on Native people is hardly some boyish prank.

It must be condemned in the strongest possible language.

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A plan to slaughter 4,200 bisons in Wood Buffalo National Park ha been quashed.

The likely alternative, said the grand chief of Treaty 8, is a proposal by Treaty 8 chiefs to quarantine the bison in the 44,800 km park, which straddles the border between Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

Frank Halcrow, after meeting with federal Environment Minister Robert de Cotret and Agriculture Minister Don Mazankowski in Edmonton Oct. 26, said the federal government "finally went at the problem in the most reasonable way."

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Alberta Metis settlements will receive 1.25 million acres of land as part of a $310 million land settlement signed by Premier Don Getty Nov. 1.

The move also paves the way for increasing self-determination for the eight Metis settlements.

"The legislation provides the base we can build on and the tools to make and meet our own destiny," said Randy Hardy, president of the Metis Settlements General Council.

Getty signed over ownership of the land to the 5,000 settlement Metis. The $310 million will be provided over 17 years.

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The Lubicon Lake band will stop a High Prairie lumber band will stop a High Prairie limber company from building an access road to timber-cutting areas, says the Lubicon chief.

"We're not going to stand by and watch them. We're not going to allow any more logging," said Bernard Ominayak.

Buchanan Lumber is preparing a logging road which the Lubicons claim infringes o their traditional hunting and trapping area.

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The adviser to the Lubicon Lake Indian band says the federal Indian affairs minister doesn't understand Native issues.

"As in the case with most that Siddon says, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about," said Fred Lennarson, referring to Oct. 24 comments by Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon.

In the House of Commons Siddon said the "Lubicon demand is vastly in excess of the settlement which has been achieved with most other Native communities in Canada."

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The leader of the Lonefighters Society may be a step closet to freedom, says spokesman Devalon Small Legs.

Small Legs said the dismissal by the Court of Queen's Bench in Lethbridge of the province's application for civil contempt charges against Milton Born With A Tooth may be an indication other charges will be "kicked out on the grounds he was protecting what he thought was his property."

Justice Roy Deyell threw out the application saying it lacked detail and was deficient.

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The Peigan Lonefighters Society is optimistic construction on the Oldman River dam may be stopped following a closed-door meeting with federal Environment Minster Robert de Cotret in Edmonton.

Lonefighters spokesman Devalon Small Legs said he's hopeful the department of environment may step in with an environment assessment before the $350-million dam northeast of Pincher Creek is completed.