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Woodland Cree Chief John Cardinal says his band largely consists of Bill C-31 Natives rejected by other northern Alberta bands.

"What do these people do? They're rejected all around. Isn't there something for these people? There should be something," he said.

Cardinal, 43, told Windspeaker the Woodland Cree are not going to hide who they are any longer because "they're Indians just like everyone else."

Since the members of the Woodland Cree weren't being represented by their home reserves, they decided to negotiate for their own reserve, he said.

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Woodland Cree Chief John Cardinal says his band largely consists of Bill C-31 Natives rejected by other northern Alberta bands.

"What do these people do? They're rejected all around. Isn't there something for these people? There should be something," he said.

Cardinal, 43, told Windspeaker the Woodland Cree are not going to hide who they are any longer because "they're Indians just like everyone else."

Since the members of the Woodland Cree weren't being represented by their home reserves, they decided to negotiate for their own reserve, he said.

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Native women are still at the bottom of the totem pole, a Native leader told an International Women's Day (IWD) workshop.

"Native women are pressured from all sides -- from Greenpeace lobbying against a way of life, by governments withholding dollars and tightening welfare policies and in terms of jobs," said Doris Ronnenburg.

She called on governments in Canada to settle long-standing issues with their own aboriginal people before concentrating on international issues and for Native women to be more politically active to break the pattern of apathy.

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Native women are still at the bottom of the totem pole, a Native leader told an International Women's Day (IWD) workshop.

"Native women are pressured from all sides -- from Greenpeace lobbying against a way of life, by governments withholding dollars and tightening welfare policies and in terms of jobs," said Doris Ronnenburg.

She called on governments in Canada to settle long-standing issues with their own aboriginal people before concentrating on international issues and for Native women to be more politically active to break the pattern of apathy.

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Native women are still at the bottom of the totem pole, a Native leader told an International Women's Day (IWD) workshop.

"Native women are pressured from all sides -- from Greenpeace lobbying against a way of life, by governments withholding dollars and tightening welfare policies and in terms of jobs," said Doris Ronnenburg.

She called on governments in Canada to settle long-standing issues with their own aboriginal people before concentrating on international issues and for Native women to be more politically active to break the pattern of apathy.

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Native women are still at the bottom of the totem pole, a Native leader told an International Women's Day (IWD) workshop.

"Native women are pressured from all sides -- from Greenpeace lobbying against a way of life, by governments withholding dollars and tightening welfare policies and in terms of jobs," said Doris Ronnenburg.

She called on governments in Canada to settle long-standing issues with their own aboriginal people before concentrating on international issues and for Native women to be more politically active to break the pattern of apathy.

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Chances are Rodney Pelletier will never hug his two young daughters again.

But at the moment three-year-old Amber and two-year-old Jheri are just about the only bright spots in an otherwise dreary landscape.

"Sometimes I feel that's the only thing I'm living for," says 21-year-old Rodney, and Eden Valley resident, who is trapped in a hospital bed on the 11th floor of Calgary's Foothills Hospital. He expects to be there for months.

He's hooked up to a respirator - most likely for life - paralyzed from the neck down, wondering what he has to live for.

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Chances are Rodney Pelletier will never hug his two young daughters again.

But at the moment three-year-old Amber and two-year-old Jheri are just about the only bright spots in an otherwise dreary landscape.

"Sometimes I feel that's the only thing I'm living for," says 21-year-old Rodney, and Eden Valley resident, who is trapped in a hospital bed on the 11th floor of Calgary's Foothills Hospital. He expects to be there for months.

He's hooked up to a respirator - most likely for life - paralyzed from the neck down, wondering what he has to live for.

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Chances are Rodney Pelletier will never hug his two young daughters again.

But at the moment three-year-old Amber and two-year-old Jheri are just about the only bright spots in an otherwise dreary landscape.

"Sometimes I feel that's the only thing I'm living for," says 21-year-old Rodney, and Eden Valley resident, who is trapped in a hospital bed on the 11th floor of Calgary's Foothills Hospital. He expects to be there for months.

He's hooked up to a respirator - most likely for life - paralyzed from the neck down, wondering what he has to live for.

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Chances are Rodney Pelletier will never hug his two young daughters again.

But at the moment three-year-old Amber and two-year-old Jheri are just about the only bright spots in an otherwise dreary landscape.

"Sometimes I feel that's the only thing I'm living for," says 21-year-old Rodney, and Eden Valley resident, who is trapped in a hospital bed on the 11th floor of Calgary's Foothills Hospital. He expects to be there for months.

He's hooked up to a respirator - most likely for life - paralyzed from the neck down, wondering what he has to live for.