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The hereditary chiefs of the Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en are appealing a recent B.C. court decision quashing their land claim.

The appeal was filed April 2 in B.C. Court of Appeal. In their lawsuit the chiefs asked for a declaration from the courts they still hold Aboriginal title to 57,000-square kilometres of land they consider their traditional territory.

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The leader of the Peigan Lonefighters Society is out of jail on bail.

The Calgary Court of Appeal granted Milton Born With A Tooth bail April 2. Born With A Tooth's lawyer Karen Gainer said she was worried her client would have to go through five bail hearings again before being released.

Following his arrest in September, Born With A Tooth sat through four hearings before finally being released on his fifth attempt in December.

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The president of the Alberta Metis Settlements General Council (MSGC), formerly the Federation of Metis Settlements, has resigned.

Randy Hardy has decided to run for the chairman's position at the Kikino Metis settlement where he's originally from. Elections for a chairman and four councillors are scheduled for mid-April.

Hardy was elected president of the eight Metis settlements in 1986 and was serving his second term when he resigned.

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Seventy Native people will hit the jobless rolls if BANAC can't survive a recent funding slash by the Alberta government, says the company's general manager.

Seven of the 20 businesses BANAC serves will go under if it can't find alternate sources of funding. Said Johan Louw. "That means 70 Natives will lose their jobs and go back on welfare."

He said it makes poor economic sense not to renew funding for BANAC (Business Assistance for Native Albertans Corporation).

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Making people aware AIDS could wipe out their entire community is the goal of a conference to be held in Hobbema next month.

"This is the first time an AIDS prevention and awareness convention has been held on a Canadian Indian reserve and hosted by Indian people," says Wilson Okeymaw, executive director of Hobbema's Nayo-Skan Human Resources treatment centre, one of the event's organizers.

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Thirty-six high school students from the Hobbema area will earn about Native American cultures first hand in a trip to Arizona, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico and Montana. The Osakyak Native Study Tour, which began March 26, includes students from Ponoka, Wetaskiwin and Falun high schools.

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Family and community participation was the focus of the annual Winter Fest Carnival held in mid-March at Cold Lake First Nation.

Teamed up with spring-like weather and enthusiastic participation, the three-day carnival held March 15-17 featured two evening dances, a bingo, a fancy horse parade with driving competition, a Sunday afternoon talent show and hand game and crib tournaments.

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The hearts of students and staff at Cold Lake's LeGeoff School are bursting with pride.

The school is the first in Alberta to meet or exceed standards set by the province for a federally-operated school.

On March 22 five staff at the school were given 1990-91 Deputy Minister Outstanding Achievement Awards because students a LeGeoff met or exceeded standards set by the 1988-89 school year. The province conducts achievement tests annually for students in Grades 3 and 6.

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Loretta Callioux was still on high school when she discovered she was about to become a mother. "I had to drop out of school, I didn't have any choice," she says.

After her baby was born, she spent a lot of time thinking about the future for herself and herself and her son Justin. "It didn't look bright without a high school diploma you can't pursue much of a career," she says.

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A shaken Lorna Born With A Tooth held back her tears as he read a statement prepared by her brother Milton who was sentenced Monday to 18 months in jail on six weapons charges.

She read Milton's five-page response to his treatment by the Alberta judicial system to a crow of 75 protesters outside the Lethbridge courthouse.

He said judicial system officials didn't want "to get to the truth about what kind of a human being I really am. That's why everything I've said has been used against me."