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Peigan Nation Chief Leonard Bastien and most of his council members have had a crisis on their hands for more than a month as members of the band's Lonefighters Society attempted to divert the Oldman River.

They have time and again held emergency meetings to deal with the crisis facing the peigan people, mostly to no avail.

Bastien was caught in a dilemma as the band was warned by the provincial government to stop attempts to divert the river to its original creek bed.

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The Lone fighters Society has roots tracing back to the 1700s. But who are the Lonefighters? How they came to be and for what purpose can only be told by Peigan Nation elders.

The Lonef ighters' Society members originally lived along the bands of the Oldman River, which runs a winding course thorough Peigan land in a one-kilometer long tranquil coulee.

There on the river's banks they buried their dead, held sundances, gathered for powwows and held war council against any enemy that threatened the Peigan people.

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Don't forget the warriors, we many never see their like again.

These words were uttered by a veteran of the modern-day Indian wars of the early 70s in response to the apparent end of the American Indian Movement's most active era.

>From 1968 to 1976 AIM and its leaders were the focus of a virtual media circus whose progey remain hunkered down around Oka, Que., awaiting either resolution or revolution.

While it is true the major venue of AIM activity was the United States, the movement did attract and affect many like-minded Canadian Indians.

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The clock is ticking.

The hand are almost at midnight.

But it's not too late, Canada, to pull back from the brink to which your prime Minster and premier of Quebec have taken you.

Open your ears and listen. Open your eyes and see. Get out of the way.

Your home's on Native land.

For a brief time, it looked as if the country had pulled back from the edge of the abyss into which it threatened to be pushed.

Now thanks to the unyielding attitude of the nation's top leaders, the outlook is ominous.

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A day-care program at Alexander has been given a $77,335 grant by the federal government. The program know as Developing the Whole Child is operated by the Alexander (Kipohtakaw) Education Centre. The project was one of 11 to benefit from almost $1 million in grants from the Child Care Initiatives Fund.

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Noting the situation in Oka is "critical," 35 Edmontonians have sent a telegram to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney urging him to get "directly involved by meeting with the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy now." It was endorsed by IAA president Regena Crowchild, Edmonton Mayor Jan Reimer, Alberta New Democrats leader Ray Martin, Edmonton Ald. Brian Mason, Don Aitken, president of the Alberta Federation of Labor, eight MLAs and seven religious leaders.