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United Tribes bring out the hitters

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Eight ladies? and five men?s teams met at Brandon University on Nov. 24 and 25 for the United Tribes Volleyball Club?s annual all Native tournament.

Hosted by United Tribes, the tournament was attended by teams from many parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, including Winnipeg, Peguis, Norway House, Ebb ?n? Flow and a good showing from southwestern Manitoba.

Chiefs vow to protect sacred lake

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A decades-old controversy over who should control use of a lake that the Okanagan Nation Alliance considers sacred is heating up again around the town of Osoyoos, about 13 miles north of the United States border.

The property containing Spotted Lake is currently owned by descendants of the late Ernest Smith, who once had the idea of developing a spa there but who was thwarted when Native people and their supporters blocked rezoning of the property.

Chiefs vow to protect sacred lake

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A decades-old controversy over who should control use of a lake that the Okanagan Nation Alliance considers sacred is heating up again around the town of Osoyoos, about 13 miles north of the United States border.

The property containing Spotted Lake is currently owned by descendants of the late Ernest Smith, who once had the idea of developing a spa there but who was thwarted when Native people and their supporters blocked rezoning of the property.

Injunction halts protest at RCMP building site

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Despite a strict injunction granted to Peigan chief and council blocking Peigan Nation members from protesting the construction of an RCMP building in Brocket, the general population endorsed Chief Peter Strikes With A Gun in tribal elections held Nov. 30.

Strikes With A Gun was returned for his third term as chief, only two months after successfully obtaining an injunction from a Calgary court that forbade any member from gathering at the construction site.