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Windspeaker celebrates 10 years by going national

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It was early in 1977 when Bert Crowfoot began his newspaper career as a freelance writer for the Native People newspaper, which was published by the Alberta Native Communications Society.

He rose through the ranks to become the editor in the early 1980s. He involuntarily left the Native people because of philosophical differences with the board of directors of ANCS.

Government celebrates year of Indigenous with funding cuts, raids

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March marked the end of the first quarter in the United Nations International Year of the World's Indigenous People.

And it was quite a month for Natives in Canada.

Federal and provincial officials celebrated the international year in their own special ways. There were funding cuts to Native programs across the country and in Manitoba, armed police raids on a reserve in Saskatchewan, and continued government disinterest in the Third World living conditions at Davis Inlet.