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When Dwayne Roth walked from Saskatoon to Regina in November and declared the beginning of a modern day Metis rebellion, a number of Metis people apparently took what he said to heart.

Roth, the president of the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan (MNS), made his statements, and his 250-kilometre journey, to protest the provincial government's decision to suspend its funding of the organization and its refusal to recognize the results of the MNS election held at the end of May.

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Five men and one woman have been charged in connection with the abduction and murder of a 44-year-old Regina man.

Wayne Gerald Friday was found dead in a wooded area on Muscowpetung First Nation on Nov. 20. Friday had been assaulted and abducted from his home in Regina earlier that day.

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While classes have resumed at Payepot school, it will be a long time before school life returns to normal.

Two groups of protestors left the school on Nov. 10, ending a month-long sit-in that disrupted classes and divided the community.

One group, which originally started the protest, demanded an end to the school's modified learning curriculum, while another group, who took over another area of the same building in early November, demanded an end to the original demonstration and the re-starting of classes.

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According to a recent poll, most Canadians do not consider improving the quality of life of Aboriginal Canadians to be a high priority for the federal government.

"It's a reflection of what the future holds," said Lorena Fontaine, professor of Indigenous studies at the First Nations University of Canada's Regina campus. "Unless the issues are definitely affecting the public, why would they place it high in terms of their considerations?"

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Just under 16 per cent of Canadian children-more than one million-live in poverty. Among Aboriginal children living off-reserve, that percentage jumps to 40 per cent. These staggering figures are only part of the story told by a recent report by Campaign 2000, a non-partisan organization formed in 1991 to build public awareness and support in the fight to eliminate child poverty and to remind all elected officials of their responsibility in that fight.

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More than 150 students from the University of Saskatchewan, First Nations University of Canada and Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies gathered together in the frosty morning hours of Nov. 19 to take part in a march for justice.

Students from the three schools walked to the Saskatoon Police Service building to show their support for Stonechild Inquiry Chief Commissioner Judge David Wright and Saskatoon Police Chief Russell Sabo.

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NAIT in Motion mobile education units are coming to a community near you.

To provide access to technical education to those living in the more remote parts of the province, NAIT built-at a cost of $1.4 million-two tractor-trailer units to function as classrooms on wheels. They are outfitted for programs ranging from business to trade-related programs, such as electrical, pipe trades and welding.

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Sheila Fraser and her staff released a report on Indian education that says the department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) is not making the grade. The auditor general (A-G) said INAC does not know whether funding to First Nations is sufficient to meet the education standards it has set or whether the results achieved are in line with the resources provided. The budget for this program is over $1 billion annually.

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Just under 16 per cent of Canadian children-more than one million-live in poverty. Among Aboriginal children living off-reserve, that percentage jumps to 40 per cent.

These staggering figures are only part of the story told by a recent report by Campaign 2000, a non-partisan organization formed in 1991 to build public awareness and support in the fight to eliminate child poverty and to remind all elected officials of their responsibility in that fight.

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It may have been the rock groups that scooped up the lion's share of the awards going at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards show Nov. 26 in Toronto, but it was the traditional group performances that rocked the audience that evening.