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Through four days of meetings, representatives of Native housing corporations worked out a plan to try and get funding for off-reserve housing reinstated.

Pat Apikan, chair of the National Aboriginal Housing Committee, told Windspeaker that nothing was going to stop the group from getting the federal government to stop the funding cuts.

In the last federal budget; funding for off-reserve housing was set to be eliminated on Jan. 1, 1994.

The upbeat things about these meetings is that these groups are not going to take no for an answer, Apikan said.

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Through four days of meetings, representatives of Native housing corporations worked out a plan to try and get funding for off-reserve housing reinstated.

Pat Apikan, chair of the National Aboriginal Housing Committee, told Windspeaker that nothing was going to stop the group from getting the federal government to stop the funding cuts.

In the last federal budget; funding for off-reserve housing was set to be eliminated on Jan. 1, 1994.

The upbeat things about these meetings is that these groups are not going to take no for an answer, Apikan said.

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Through four days of meetings, representatives of Native housing corporations worked out a plan to try and get funding for off-reserve housing reinstated.

Pat Apikan, chair of the National Aboriginal Housing Committee, told Windspeaker that nothing was going to stop the group from getting the federal government to stop the funding cuts.

In the last federal budget; funding for off-reserve housing was set to be eliminated on Jan. 1, 1994.

The upbeat things about these meetings is that these groups are not going to take no for an answer, Apikan said.

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More than a dozen female students attending the Indian Residential School have attempted suicide over the past year - a statistic that has alarmed school and hospital administrators.

One girl died and officials haven't been able to pin down what's causing the incidents in the Native-run school of almost 200 students.

"I don't think it's a result of anything we're doing out here, I just can't see it," said Vern Bellegarde, executive director of the school, about 90 kilometres northeast of Regina.

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More than a dozen female students attending the Indian Residential School have attempted suicide over the past year - a statistic that has alarmed school and hospital administrators.

One girl died and officials haven't been able to pin down what's causing the incidents in the Native-run school of almost 200 students.

"I don't think it's a result of anything we're doing out here, I just can't see it," said Vern Bellegarde, executive director of the school, about 90 kilometres northeast of Regina.

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More than a dozen female students attending the Indian Residential School have attempted suicide over the past year - a statistic that has alarmed school and hospital administrators.

One girl died and officials haven't been able to pin down what's causing the incidents in the Native-run school of almost 200 students.

"I don't think it's a result of anything we're doing out here, I just can't see it," said Vern Bellegarde, executive director of the school, about 90 kilometres northeast of Regina.

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More than a dozen female students attending the Indian Residential School have attempted suicide over the past year - a statistic that has alarmed school and hospital administrators.

One girl died and officials haven't been able to pin down what's causing the incidents in the Native-run school of almost 200 students.

"I don't think it's a result of anything we're doing out here, I just can't see it," said Vern Bellegarde, executive director of the school, about 90 kilometres northeast of Regina.

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A single letter deleted from the United Nation's draft document on human rights will deprive Canadian Natives of their inherent right to self-determination, a Canadian non-government organization representative said.

The "s" in the term "Indigenous peoples" was removed from the fourth draft of the UN's Vienna Declaration for States at the request of the Canadian government during restricted pre-meetings for the World Conference on Human Rights in Geneva last month, said Grand Council of the Cree of Quebec advisor Bob Epstein.

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A single letter deleted from the United Nation's draft document on human rights will deprive Canadian Natives of their inherent right to self-determination, a Canadian non-government organization representative said.

The "s" in the term "Indigenous peoples" was removed from the fourth draft of the UN's Vienna Declaration for States at the request of the Canadian government during restricted pre-meetings for the World Conference on Human Rights in Geneva last month, said Grand Council of the Cree of Quebec advisor Bob Epstein.

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A single letter deleted from the United Nation's draft document on human rights will deprive Canadian Natives of their inherent right to self-determination, a Canadian non-government organization representative said.

The "s" in the term "Indigenous peoples" was removed from the fourth draft of the UN's Vienna Declaration for States at the request of the Canadian government during restricted pre-meetings for the World Conference on Human Rights in Geneva last month, said Grand Council of the Cree of Quebec advisor Bob Epstein.