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Ottawa reached new levels in bureaucratic backward-thinking last month. Federal negotiator Ross Reid and Indian Affairs Minister Pauline Browes suggested in a letter to Davis Inlet Chief Katie Rich and Innu Nation President Peter Penashue that the Innu register under the Indian Act to receive federal government programs.

Reid and Browes called the registration a "stepping stone" to a modern relation-ship between the Innu and the federal government. Registration will help meet the Innu's request for federal programming sooner, rather than later, the letter said.

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Natives who regained their Indian status through a controversial amendment to the Indian act will not be welcomed back to their reserves, a federal court was told.

The influx of Bill C-31 Indians to their ancestral reserves will only create trouble and hostility in the communities, said Ermineskin Band member Wayne Roan.

Roan is one of three prominent Alberta Native leaders suing Ottawa over Bill

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Natives who regained their Indian status through a controversial amendment to the Indian act will not be welcomed back to their reserves, a federal court was told.

The influx of Bill C-31 Indians to their ancestral reserves will only create trouble and hostility in the communities, said Ermineskin Band member Wayne Roan.

Roan is one of three prominent Alberta Native leaders suing Ottawa over Bill

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Natives who regained their Indian status through a controversial amendment to the Indian act will not be welcomed back to their reserves, a federal court was told.

The influx of Bill C-31 Indians to their ancestral reserves will only create trouble and hostility in the communities, said Ermineskin Band member Wayne Roan.

Roan is one of three prominent Alberta Native leaders suing Ottawa over Bill

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Natives who regained their Indian status through a controversial amendment to the Indian act will not be welcomed back to their reserves, a federal court was told.

The influx of Bill C-31 Indians to their ancestral reserves will only create trouble and hostility in the communities, said Ermineskin Band member Wayne Roan.

Roan is one of three prominent Alberta Native leaders suing Ottawa over Bill

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Natives who regained their Indian status through a controversial amendment to the Indian act will not be welcomed back to their reserves, a federal court was told.

The influx of Bill C-31 Indians to their ancestral reserves will only create trouble and hostility in the communities, said Ermineskin Band member Wayne Roan.

Roan is one of three prominent Alberta Native leaders suing Ottawa over Bill

Page 3

Natives who regained their Indian status through a controversial amendment to the Indian act will not be welcomed back to their reserves, a federal court was told.

The influx of Bill C-31 Indians to their ancestral reserves will only create trouble and hostility in the communities, said Ermineskin Band member Wayne Roan.

Roan is one of three prominent Alberta Native leaders suing Ottawa over Bill

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Natives who regained their Indian status through a controversial amendment to the Indian act will not be welcomed back to their reserves, a federal court was told.

The influx of Bill C-31 Indians to their ancestral reserves will only create trouble and hostility in the communities, said Ermineskin Band member Wayne Roan.

Roan is one of three prominent Alberta Native leaders suing Ottawa over Bill

Page 3

Natives who regained their Indian status through a controversial amendment to the Indian act will not be welcomed back to their reserves, a federal court was told.

The influx of Bill C-31 Indians to their ancestral reserves will only create trouble and hostility in the communities, said Ermineskin Band member Wayne Roan.

Roan is one of three prominent Alberta Native leaders suing Ottawa over Bill

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Natives who regained their Indian status through a controversial amendment to the Indian act will not be welcomed back to their reserves, a federal court was told.

The influx of Bill C-31 Indians to their ancestral reserves will only create trouble and hostility in the communities, said Ermineskin Band member Wayne Roan.

Roan is one of three prominent Alberta Native leaders suing Ottawa over Bill