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Canada's treatment of Native people is still No. 1 on the list of human rights violations, says Canada's human rights watchdog.

In his annual report to the House of Commons Max Yalden pointed to last summer's violent standoff at Oka as "an extreme manifestation of a relationship between governments and aboriginal peoples that had been turning increasingly sour but that, at bottom, had never been what it ought to be."

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Aboriginal people are victims of racism and discrimination in the criminal justice system, says a report on Native justice.

Aboriginals are plagued by "cultural insensitivity by people working in the criminal justice system," said the report of the task force chaired by Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Justice Allan Cawsey.

The task force found "many accounts of racial prejudice attributed specifically to the police."

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Aboriginal people are victims of racism and discrimination in the criminal justice system, says a report on Native justice.

Aboriginals are plagued by "cultural insensitivity by people working in the criminal justice system," said the report of the task force chaired by Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Justice Allan Cawsey.

The task force found "many accounts of racial prejudice attributed specifically to the police."

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If the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en land-claim decision is allowed to stand it will have a disastrous effect on Native across the country, says a vice-chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

Ovide Mercredi said the decision will make other land claims difficult to resolve because "it's based on the idea Indians have no land rights unless given to them by the Crown."

After four years of trial and deliberation Chief Justice Allan McEachern ruled March 8 the 8,000 Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Indians have no claim to the resource-rich 57,000 sq. Km area of interior B.C.

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If the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en land-claim decision is allowed to stand it will have a disastrous effect on Native across the country, says a vice-chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

Ovide Mercredi said the decision will make other land claims difficult to resolve because "it's based on the idea Indians have no land rights unless given to them by the Crown."

After four years of trial and deliberation Chief Justice Allan McEachern ruled March 8 the 8,000 Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Indians have no claim to the resource-rich 57,000 sq. Km area of interior B.C.

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If the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en land-claim decision is allowed to stand it will have a disastrous effect on Native across the country, says a vice-chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

Ovide Mercredi said the decision will make other land claims difficult to resolve because "it's based on the idea Indians have no land rights unless given to them by the Crown."

After four years of trial and deliberation Chief Justice Allan McEachern ruled March 8 the 8,000 Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Indians have no claim to the resource-rich 57,000 sq. Km area of interior B.C.

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If the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en land-claim decision is allowed to stand it will have a disastrous effect on Native across the country, says a vice-chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

Ovide Mercredi said the decision will make other land claims difficult to resolve because "it's based on the idea Indians have no land rights unless given to them by the Crown."

After four years of trial and deliberation Chief Justice Allan McEachern ruled March 8 the 8,000 Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Indians have no claim to the resource-rich 57,000 sq. Km area of interior B.C.

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Windspeaker kept up its tradition of winning awards at the seventh annual Native American Journalists Association conference held in Denver March 14-16, 1991.

It won the General Excellence Award for a biweekly and also the Personal Statement Award in photography with the work of freelance photographer Brad Callihoo.

Windspeaker also received honorable mentions for Best Feature Story (Heather Andrews), Best Editorial (Richard Wagamese) and Best News Reporting (Rudy Haugeneder).

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Windspeaker kept up its tradition of winning awards at the seventh annual Native American Journalists Association conference held in Denver March 14-16, 1991.

It won the General Excellence Award for a biweekly and also the Personal Statement Award in photography with the work of freelance photographer Brad Callihoo.

Windspeaker also received honorable mentions for Best Feature Story (Heather Andrews), Best Editorial (Richard Wagamese) and Best News Reporting (Rudy Haugeneder).

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Windspeaker kept up its tradition of winning awards at the seventh annual Native American Journalists Association conference held in Denver March 14-16, 1991.

It won the General Excellence Award for a biweekly and also the Personal Statement Award in photography with the work of freelance photographer Brad Callihoo.

Windspeaker also received honorable mentions for Best Feature Story (Heather Andrews), Best Editorial (Richard Wagamese) and Best News Reporting (Rudy Haugeneder).