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Band control of reserve schools here on the Blood reserve, will take effect in the next school year, says Dr. Pier DePaola, director of the Blood Tribe Education.

DePaola said the Blood Tribe Education Committee hopes to have total control of their education by Sept. 1988 or 1989. He said the idea should take effect next September.

"The committee wants a written constitution for the school board, to co-operate as a non-profit organization," said DePaola. "The final draft will be ready for approval by February."

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Athabasca University is delivering its new on-site Academic Preparation Program for the first time to students at Blue Quills First Nations College in St. Paul.

The program's goal is to boost students' self-confidence and improve their study skills. Developed by the university's Student Services department, it teaches students time management, organization, reading and memory skills, note taking and exam preparation.

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In the battle against the anti-fur lobby Native people are turning to modern technology to teach British children about native survival and hunting traditions.

Georges Erasmus, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, says an "interactive video game" will be part of an education package for British children.

The game will be based on the type developed for European children by Saudi Arabian officials who wanted to teach westerners about Saudi culture.

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Canadian Natives, in London recently to promote the fur trapping industry in a city that leads the European anti-fur lobby, received little play from the British media.

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Collins back on ski team

Former Olympic ski jumping star Steve Collins has returned to the slopes and is back on the Canadian National Ski Jumping Team.

The Fort Williams band member left the team last season for personal reasons but has continued to train on his own with private funding.

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Everett Soop straightens his plaid shirt, tugs at this pants, leans forward in his wheel chair and takes the microphone.

He hardly needs an introduction. The renowned Blood cartoonist/writer is in a league of his own. Many have tried to copy his success but have not reached the heights he has.

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EDITORIAL

By the time you read this, Christmas Day will have come and gone. For most of us, our strongest memories are of the children in our lives. Christmas is made for them . . . they are the ones who believe in glitter and magic, and that anything they imagine is possible.

Olympic torch run protested

Petro-Canada got a chance to share the blame for ill treatment of Lubicon Indians as its Olympic Flame advertising bandwagon hit this city Dec. 16.

Waiting for the company's publicity show were a group of protestors demanding justice for the Lubicon band in their fight with the federal and provincial governments, Petro-Canada and other oil companies.

"We're not against the Olympic torch relay," said Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak, after the protest, "it's the people behind the relay, like Petro-Canada . . . using it for advertising.

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A Peigan band councillor says he feels "pretty good" about the recent Calgary court decision which declared the province's construction permits for Oldman River dam invalid.

The ruling stated that the province failed to get written permission for the dam from the district of Pincher Creek where the dam site is situated, or from the federal and provincial ministers of highways.

Leander Strikes With A Gun says he met with the Friends of the Oldman River Dec. 8. The group recently took the dam issue to court.

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Blyan has questions for Hardy at face to face meeting in Edmonton

About 50 members of the Metis Settlement Members Coalition headed by chairman Joe Blyan addressed the annual meeting of the Federation of Metis Settlements in Edmonton Dec. 11.

In a speech to the assembled councils of the eight Metis settlements, Blyan said he and his fellow settlement members were concerned over problems on the settlements and particularly with the Buffalo Lake (Caslan) settlement.