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Since time immemorial, the buffalo has roamed free on the Prairies.

At that time, the buffalo was valued by Indian people because it provided such daily necessities as meat, pemmican and clothing.

The buffalo was intricately tied to the everyday survival of Plains Indians for a very long time.

Today, the buffalo is still important, in many respects.

It's a art of Indian folklore and for generations, it has represented so much about what it means to be Indian, about a nomadic life long gone but still in the hearts and minds of Indian people.

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Since time immemorial, the buffalo has roamed free on the Prairies.

At that time, the buffalo was valued by Indian people because it provided such daily necessities as meat, pemmican and clothing.

The buffalo was intricately tied to the everyday survival of Plains Indians for a very long time.

Today, the buffalo is still important, in many respects.

It's a art of Indian folklore and for generations, it has represented so much about what it means to be Indian, about a nomadic life long gone but still in the hearts and minds of Indian people.

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Remarks made by a senior provincial official defending the government's role in caring for cold wards were offensive, says IAA vice-president Percy Potts.

Potts said Hugh Tadman, senior communications officer with social services, was out of line to point fingers at families in crisis.

Those families should instead be offered rehabilitative help rather than criticism, he said.

"Social services is set up for the very purpose he's blasting," said Potts.

"Someone somewhere has to start showing care for those children."

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Remarks made by a senior provincial official defending the government's role in caring for cold wards were offensive, says IAA vice-president Percy Potts.

Potts said Hugh Tadman, senior communications officer with social services, was out of line to point fingers at families in crisis.

Those families should instead be offered rehabilitative help rather than criticism, he said.

"Social services is set up for the very purpose he's blasting," said Potts.

"Someone somewhere has to start showing care for those children."

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Remarks made by a senior provincial official defending the government's role in caring for cold wards were offensive, says IAA vice-president Percy Potts.

Potts said Hugh Tadman, senior communications officer with social services, was out of line to point fingers at families in crisis.

Those families should instead be offered rehabilitative help rather than criticism, he said.

"Social services is set up for the very purpose he's blasting," said Potts.

"Someone somewhere has to start showing care for those children."

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Remarks made by a senior provincial official defending the government's role in caring for cold wards were offensive, says IAA vice-president Percy Potts.

Potts said Hugh Tadman, senior communications officer with social services, was out of line to point fingers at families in crisis.

Those families should instead be offered rehabilitative help rather than criticism, he said.

"Social services is set up for the very purpose he's blasting," said Potts.

"Someone somewhere has to start showing care for those children."

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A Native group in west-central Alberta is threatening to break Canadian laws to uphold aboriginal rights.

"We don't recognize the laws of Canada," said Metis Dan Martel, a representative of the Assembly of Aboriginal People (AAP).

"We're going to tell our people to go out and hunt again," he said, noting some aboriginal people in the Grand Cache area had their hunting rights taken away by the province in 1985.

Martel said he may assert what he believes is his aboriginal right to hunt at times other than those set out in Canadian law.

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A Native group in west-central Alberta is threatening to break Canadian laws to uphold aboriginal rights.

"We don't recognize the laws of Canada," said Metis Dan Martel, a representative of the Assembly of Aboriginal People (AAP).

"We're going to tell our people to go out and hunt again," he said, noting some aboriginal people in the Grand Cache area had their hunting rights taken away by the province in 1985.

Martel said he may assert what he believes is his aboriginal right to hunt at times other than those set out in Canadian law.

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A Native group in west-central Alberta is threatening to break Canadian laws to uphold aboriginal rights.

"We don't recognize the laws of Canada," said Metis Dan Martel, a representative of the Assembly of Aboriginal People (AAP).

"We're going to tell our people to go out and hunt again," he said, noting some aboriginal people in the Grand Cache area had their hunting rights taken away by the province in 1985.

Martel said he may assert what he believes is his aboriginal right to hunt at times other than those set out in Canadian law.

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A Native group in west-central Alberta is threatening to break Canadian laws to uphold aboriginal rights.

"We don't recognize the laws of Canada," said Metis Dan Martel, a representative of the Assembly of Aboriginal People (AAP).

"We're going to tell our people to go out and hunt again," he said, noting some aboriginal people in the Grand Cache area had their hunting rights taken away by the province in 1985.

Martel said he may assert what he believes is his aboriginal right to hunt at times other than those set out in Canadian law.