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Federal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said preparations are being made within his department to line up the cash that will be needed to pay for residential school compensation.

During a Sept. 9 meeting with Windspeaker, the man responsible for formulating the federal government's budget promised there will be money available. An exact figure has not been set.

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Members of southern Louisiana's Indian tribes are facing a grim future. The recent hurricanes that hit the Gulf Coast area have seen their homes destroyed by floodwaters and their livelihoods eliminated with the cancellation of the shrimp, oyster and crab fishing seasons.

Hardest hit of the southern tribes is the United Houma Nation. Principal Chief Brenda Dardar said the 3,500 members in Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes in southeastern Louisiana are destitute.

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Members of southern Louisiana's Indian tribes are facing a grim future. The recent hurricanes that hit the Gulf Coast area have seen their homes destroyed by floodwaters and their livelihoods eliminated with the cancellation of the shrimp, oyster and crab fishing seasons.

Hardest hit of the southern tribes is the United Houma Nation. Principal Chief Brenda Dardar said the 3,500 members in Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes in southeastern Louisiana are destitute.

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The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) committed itself in 1996 to achieving a 50 per cent Aboriginal employment rate and, as recently as this year, gave its own efforts on meeting that goal a passing grade. But a report compiled by an Aboriginal INAC employee questions the department's methods of collecting the data that produces the employment rate.

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The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) committed itself in 1996 to achieving a 50 per cent Aboriginal employment rate and, as recently as this year, gave its own efforts on meeting that goal a passing grade. But a report compiled by an Aboriginal INAC employee questions the department's methods of collecting the data that produces the employment rate.

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As Sept. 6 came and went, the beginning of the second decade since the fatal shooting of Dudley George began with a fight over release of information between the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the chief commissioner of the inquiry into the Native activist's death.

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A mediation panel created by an act of Parliament has been in existence for 12 years and has never heard a single case.

The terms of Canada's largest and most internationally heralded land claim agreement are protected by Section 35 of Canada's Constitution but the separate contract that governs how the agreement will be funded is not.

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A mediation panel created by an act of Parliament has been in existence for 12 years and has never heard a single case.

The terms of Canada's largest and most internationally heralded land claim agreement are protected by Section 35 of Canada's Constitution but the separate contract that governs how the agreement will be funded is not.

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Dear Editor:

The agreement proposed between the Assembly of First Nations and the federal government in the settlement of the long-standing issue on residential schools was released recently. For some former residential school students, the proposal may seem justified, when merely focusing on the aging, sick and those who did not experience excessive physical, mental or sexual abuse.

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Dear Editor:

The agreement proposed between the Assembly of First Nations and the federal government in the settlement of the long-standing issue on residential schools was released recently. For some former residential school students, the proposal may seem justified, when merely focusing on the aging, sick and those who did not experience excessive physical, mental or sexual abuse.