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Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Ovide Mercredi, received a less-than-warm response to his speech two weeks ago at the Native American Journalists Association conference in Kamloops, B.C.
And no wonder. The Big M mounted the stage before 150 Native journalists and proceeded to tell the assembled throng of writers, editors and publishers that they weren't doing their jobs right.
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Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Ovide Mercredi, received a less-than-warm response to his speech two weeks ago at the Native American Journalists Association conference in Kamloops, B.C.
And no wonder. The Big M mounted the stage before 150 Native journalists and proceeded to tell the assembled throng of writers, editors and publishers that they weren't doing their jobs right.
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Windspeaker staff came away from the Native American Journalists Association Kamloops convention with a stack of awards.
Publisher Bert Crowfoot won first place for news photo for his shot of Chief Marvin Charlie of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation surveying a graveyard flooded by an aluminum smelting development on the front page of the Aug. 3, 1992 issue. He also took honorable mention for sports photography for his picture of an irate baseball player kicking dirt at an impassive umpire. That photo appeared on the front of the Aug. 17, 1992 paper.
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A lawyer acting on behalf of the RCMP has apologized for writing a sarcastic poem about the Williams Lake judicial inquiry.
Prince George lawyer Brian Gilson apologized last week to an assembly of Shuswap and Chilcotin Chiefs at the Toosey Reserve for writing a short poem that many Natives said ridiculed the inquiry.
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A lawyer acting on behalf of the RCMP has apologized for writing a sarcastic poem about the Williams Lake judicial inquiry.
Prince George lawyer Brian Gilson apologized last week to an assembly of Shuswap and Chilcotin Chiefs at the Toosey Reserve for writing a short poem that many Natives said ridiculed the inquiry.
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A lawyer acting on behalf of the RCMP has apologized for writing a sarcastic poem about the Williams Lake judicial inquiry.
Prince George lawyer Brian Gilson apologized last week to an assembly of Shuswap and Chilcotin Chiefs at the Toosey Reserve for writing a short poem that many Natives said ridiculed the inquiry.
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A lawyer acting on behalf of the RCMP has apologized for writing a sarcastic poem about the Williams Lake judicial inquiry.
Prince George lawyer Brian Gilson apologized last week to an assembly of Shuswap and Chilcotin Chiefs at the Toosey Reserve for writing a short poem that many Natives said ridiculed the inquiry.
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European Economic Community restrictions on wild furs will cause suffering similar to that experienced by the Inuit following the 1983 ban of sea fur, an Assembly
of First Nations vice-chief said.
"The practice of trapping by First Nations has provided a sustainable and ecologically sound livelihood for our people for thousands of years," said Ontario regional vice-chief Gordon Peters.
"Trapping is more than an economic supplement to families, it is a way of life on the land."
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European Economic Community restrictions on wild furs will cause suffering similar to that experienced by the Inuit following the 1983 ban of sea fur, an Assembly
of First Nations vice-chief said.
"The practice of trapping by First Nations has provided a sustainable and ecologically sound livelihood for our people for thousands of years," said Ontario regional vice-chief Gordon Peters.
"Trapping is more than an economic supplement to families, it is a way of life on the land."
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European Economic Community restrictions on wild furs will cause suffering similar to that experienced by the Inuit following the 1983 ban of sea fur, an Assembly
of First Nations vice-chief said.
"The practice of trapping by First Nations has provided a sustainable and ecologically sound livelihood for our people for thousands of years," said Ontario regional vice-chief Gordon Peters.
"Trapping is more than an economic supplement to families, it is a way of life on the land."