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The Micmac people of Nova Scotia are a nation and should be dealt with as such, the province's premier said.

The relationship between the province and the Micmac must be conducted on a nation-to-nation level, Premier John Savage said during his speech before the 24th annual assembly of Nova Scotia chiefs in Dartmouth July 7.

"When a non-Native government deals with the Native community, the relationship is nation-to-nation," Savage said. "These are not discussions between a government and the citizens governed. These are negotiations between nations."

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The time for talk is over. It's now time for action on Aboriginal education.

That was the major theme coming out of a three-day conference held July 7, 8 and 9 in Ottawa.

Verna Kirkness, director of the First Nations' House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, told delegates the educational needs of Aboriginal people have been studied to death.

"What we need is action," she told the National Round Table on Education, organized by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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The time for talk is over. It's now time for action on Aboriginal education.

That was the major theme coming out of a three-day conference held July 7, 8 and 9 in Ottawa.

Verna Kirkness, director of the First Nations' House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, told delegates the educational needs of Aboriginal people have been studied to death.

"What we need is action," she told the National Round Table on Education, organized by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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The time for talk is over. It's now time for action on Aboriginal education.

That was the major theme coming out of a three-day conference held July 7, 8 and 9 in Ottawa.

Verna Kirkness, director of the First Nations' House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, told delegates the educational needs of Aboriginal people have been studied to death.

"What we need is action," she told the National Round Table on Education, organized by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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The time for talk is over. It's now time for action on Aboriginal education.

That was the major theme coming out of a three-day conference held July 7, 8 and 9 in Ottawa.

Verna Kirkness, director of the First Nations' House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, told delegates the educational needs of Aboriginal people have been studied to death.

"What we need is action," she told the National Round Table on Education, organized by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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When the gasoline-sniffing kids of Davis Inlet made headlines earlier this year, Ruth Morin knew their recovery would be a challenge. Like everyone else, she saw the images of despondent, gasoline-stoned children rolling around in an unheated fallen-down shack. She heard them cry out in Innu "We want to die. We want to die."

The desperate images shocked the country. But Morin, director of Poundmaker's Adolescent Centre, says the deplorable situation is not all that unusual.

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Leaders of the remote village of Davis Inlet will not turn to the justice system to deal with recent allegations of child sexual abuse.

"We decided we didn't need to go through the system, the courts and all, because justice would not be done," Chief Katie Rich said. "In the white man's system, there would be one winner and one loser. Nothing is gained for the victim. We will deal with the problem. You have to keep in mind that both the victim and the abuser need help. The abuser is sick and needs help."

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Leaders of the remote village of Davis Inlet will not turn to the justice system to deal with recent allegations of child sexual abuse.

"We decided we didn't need to go through the system, the courts and all, because justice would not be done," Chief Katie Rich said. "In the white man's system, there would be one winner and one loser. Nothing is gained for the victim. We will deal with the problem. You have to keep in mind that both the victim and the abuser need help. The abuser is sick and needs help."

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Leaders of the remote village of Davis Inlet will not turn to the justice system to deal with recent allegations of child sexual abuse.

"We decided we didn't need to go through the system, the courts and all, because justice would not be done," Chief Katie Rich said. "In the white man's system, there would be one winner and one loser. Nothing is gained for the victim. We will deal with the problem. You have to keep in mind that both the victim and the abuser need help. The abuser is sick and needs help."

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Leaders of the remote village of Davis Inlet will not turn to the justice system to deal with recent allegations of child sexual abuse.

"We decided we didn't need to go through the system, the courts and all, because justice would not be done," Chief Katie Rich said. "In the white man's system, there would be one winner and one loser. Nothing is gained for the victim. We will deal with the problem. You have to keep in mind that both the victim and the abuser need help. The abuser is sick and needs help."