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A combination of bush smarts and determination kept three teens alive after being stranded on a small lake island for 24 days without food or shelter.

The youths, two girls and a boy, survived on wild berries and water, keeping warm by the heat of a camp-fire they kept lit day and night. By the time an RCMP search team reached the island, the girls were so weak they couldn't walk.

Their three-week nightmare ended less than two hours after the RCMP boat and helicopter team started searching the Frog Lake area.

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An outbreak of meningitis in Manitoba and Saskatchewan resulting in the death of five children has prompted a massive immunization program in the two provinces.

A total of 77,000 children, on all reserves in Manitoba, in Saskatoon, and seven northern communities in Saskatchewan, will be vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis during the intense three-week campaign.

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An outbreak of meningitis in Manitoba and Saskatchewan resulting in the death of five children has prompted a massive immunization program in the two provinces.

A total of 77,000 children, on all reserves in Manitoba, in Saskatoon, and seven northern communities in Saskatchewan, will be vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis during the intense three-week campaign.

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An outbreak of meningitis in Manitoba and Saskatchewan resulting in the death of five children has prompted a massive immunization program in the two provinces.

A total of 77,000 children, on all reserves in Manitoba, in Saskatoon, and seven northern communities in Saskatchewan, will be vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis during the intense three-week campaign.

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An outbreak of meningitis in Manitoba and Saskatchewan resulting in the death of five children has prompted a massive immunization program in the two provinces.

A total of 77,000 children, on all reserves in Manitoba, in Saskatoon, and seven northern communities in Saskatchewan, will be vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis during the intense three-week campaign.

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Native sovereignty and the smuggling of cigarettes are touchy subjects with the Mohawks of Akwesasne.

Many of the eastern Ontario reserve's 8,500 residents see the movement of contraband cigarettes across the international border as their inherent right to free trade and commerce.

But some in the St. Lawrence river community, 100 kilometres south of Ottawa, see the "trade" as a violation of both Native and non-Native laws.

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Native sovereignty and the smuggling of cigarettes are touchy subjects with the Mohawks of Akwesasne.

Many of the eastern Ontario reserve's 8,500 residents see the movement of contraband cigarettes across the international border as their inherent right to free trade and commerce.

But some in the St. Lawrence river community, 100 kilometres south of Ottawa, see the "trade" as a violation of both Native and non-Native laws.

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Native sovereignty and the smuggling of cigarettes are touchy subjects with the Mohawks of Akwesasne.

Many of the eastern Ontario reserve's 8,500 residents see the movement of contraband cigarettes across the international border as their inherent right to free trade and commerce.

But some in the St. Lawrence river community, 100 kilometres south of Ottawa, see the "trade" as a violation of both Native and non-Native laws.

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Native sovereignty and the smuggling of cigarettes are touchy subjects with the Mohawks of Akwesasne.

Many of the eastern Ontario reserve's 8,500 residents see the movement of contraband cigarettes across the international border as their inherent right to free trade and commerce.

But some in the St. Lawrence river community, 100 kilometres south of Ottawa, see the "trade" as a violation of both Native and non-Native laws.

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Turning 21 is usually a big event in a person's life. For Bill Woodward, a Cree from northern Saskatchewan, it was the day he was marched into German POW camp Stalag 7A.

The year was 1944. Woodward had enlisted as a 19-year-old, escaping from unemployment and hunger, the legacy of the Dirty Thirties.

"I was tired of bumming around the country starving to death," said Woodward with a laugh. He had been living in the Ft. McMurray area since leaving Buffalo Narrows, Sask. at the age of five. The army seemed the best ticket out of a desperate situation at home.