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Dear Editor:

Lies, lies and more lies. I watched the CBC Newsworld live announcement May 30 regarding settlements to former students of Canada's Indian residential schools and I am hurt and saddened but not surprised. Instead of announcing a settlement package, the government representatives are pursuing yet another study.

A Supreme Court judge will study us yet again for who knows how much money and fuel another year of useless bureaucracy that will cost the same as any settlement would.

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Dear Editor:

Lies, lies and more lies. I watched the CBC Newsworld live announcement May 30 regarding settlements to former students of Canada's Indian residential schools and I am hurt and saddened but not surprised. Instead of announcing a settlement package, the government representatives are pursuing yet another study.

A Supreme Court judge will study us yet again for who knows how much money and fuel another year of useless bureaucracy that will cost the same as any settlement would.

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Dear Editor:

When I was growing up, people would trap animals, and also hunt and kill them. The skins or furs would be sold and the meat of trapped and hunted animals would be eaten. My father sold the furs of the muskrats he trapped, and we ate the meat. As a child, I assumed that everyone lived this way: our life was ordinary, and we were just folks.

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Dear Editor:

When I was growing up, people would trap animals, and also hunt and kill them. The skins or furs would be sold and the meat of trapped and hunted animals would be eaten. My father sold the furs of the muskrats he trapped, and we ate the meat. As a child, I assumed that everyone lived this way: our life was ordinary, and we were just folks.

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The cat's definitely out of the bag now: things are transforming on the national Aboriginal political stage.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine and Prime Minister Paul Martin, with Indian Affairs Minister Andy Scott close at hand, signed a deal May 31 and-especially in the case of Scott-uttered some words that should mean that things will change dramatically and permanently.

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The cat's definitely out of the bag now: things are transforming on the national Aboriginal political stage.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine and Prime Minister Paul Martin, with Indian Affairs Minister Andy Scott close at hand, signed a deal May 31 and-especially in the case of Scott-uttered some words that should mean that things will change dramatically and permanently.

Page 22 When Joe Augustine was young, he and his father would walk through the woods near their home community of Red Bank First Nation, now known as Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation, located near the Miramichi River in central New Brunswick. Their regular route would take them along a path beaten down over the years by caribou. Each time they walked the path, father and son would stop and rest next to a small mound next to the trail. They'd make a fire and have some tea or a bit of something to eat, and Augustine's father would tell him of the history of this place.

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When Joe Augustine was young, he and his father would walk through the woods near their home community of Red Bank First Nation, now known as Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation, located near the Miramichi River in central New Brunswick.

Their regular route would take them along a path beaten down over the years by caribou. Each time they walked the path, father and son would stop and rest next to a small mound next to the trail.

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Young people interested in the world of aviation now have another avenue to explore for training.

Churchill Community High School in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Ronge is offering the only Aircraft Maintenance Orientation

Program in the province. Ten students, three girls and seven boys, several of whom are of Aboriginal ancestry, have now completed the first course.

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Young people interested in the world of aviation now have another avenue to explore for training.

Churchill Community High School in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Ronge is offering the only Aircraft Maintenance Orientation

Program in the province. Ten students, three girls and seven boys, several of whom are of Aboriginal ancestry, have now completed the first course.