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NORTHERN ONTARIO RAILWAY BLOCKADES:

• Fresh barricades clog 2 rail routes
• CP line blocked as Ontario band takes up protest
• Indifference may fuel militance, lawyer says
• CP Rail wins injunction against blockade
• Ojibwa served with order to clear CP line
• Ojibwa lift CN rail blockade
• Ojibwa ordered to let trains pass
• Ojibwa offered top-level attention
• Ottawa tells CN to clear tracks
• Trains focus of protests
• Bleak life on remote reserve triggers Indians' demands
• Key rail lines to be blocked indefinitely
• Blockades force Via to cancel trains
• Blockades set up in Ontario
• Indians blocking rail lines
• Blockade disrupts VIA trains
  OKA DISPUTE:
• Mohawks demand amnesty for bingo
• Talks resume in Mohawk standoff
• Time seen running out in Oka talks
• Army gives in to Mohawk protest
• Army in place at Mohawk barricades
• Mohawks balk at talks after troops move up
• Riot-weary police welcome army relief
• Oka Mohawks demand new talks, say Warriors not representative
• Troops moving in to face Mohawks early tomorrow
• The Oka standoff (Warriors see selves as freedom fighters)
• Troops to replace police in standoff
• Federal official is 'optimistic' as talks adjourn
• Natives and the politics of tobacco
• Bickering over process bogs down Oka talks
• Indians doubt Siddon's promise
• Bourassa considering new move
• Talks to continue in Montreal today
• Couple to hold wedding reception circled by troops
• Some Quebeckers angered by deal
• Chateauguay enjoys first quiet night since Sunday
• Military might leaves tiny St. Benoit agog
• Newlyweds will hold reception amid army base
• Violence urged if Mohawks attacked
• Bridge may be mined minister says
• Standoff may delay start of school year
• Would-be escaper bound for reserve
• Alleged French slur at blockade derided
• Oka cops try new tack
• Quebec Mohawks resume talks
• Army moves toward Oka
• Talks await 24 observers taking posts at barricades
• Riot erupts as troops approach
• Journalists' groups condemn police attacks on cameramen
• Nobel peace prize laureate sees reason in Oka militance
  ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU'S VISIT:
• Tutu to take up native problems with Mulroney
• Tutu urges 'justice, fair play' for Canadian native people
  -PROTESTS, LAND CLAIMS AND SELF GOVERNMENT:
• B.C. vows to call on RCMP
• UOI harvesting strategy
• Native cases called landmark decisions
• First Nations get help
• Chiefs support new warriors society
  EDUCATION:
• NTCP: a new generation of teachers
  ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUSINESS:
• Quebec natives' new weapon is Education
• Temagami faces 'disastrous' days
• Beyond Bingo
• Natives threaten court action over GST
• Toxic tire-fire runoff being stored in lagoons
• Indian Affairs seeks additional $2-billion
  POLITICS
• Partisan Manitoba natives join Harper on election trail
• Chiefs split over offer to meet with Filmon
• Canada cannot tolerate violence as a political tool
  CRIMES COMMITTED ON NATIVES
• Raped on reserve, woman awarded $75,000 damages
• Police probe set into death of native
  EDITORIALS, COMMENTARY, LETTERS:
• Time to reopen Mercier bridge
• Where is the Prime Minister of Canada?
• Tutu and Indians
• Oka and Indians
• A bridge too far
• World Woes overshadow Mulroney's failings
• How will the civil authorities deal with the
• Mohawk Warriors' weapons?
• What Sartre had to say about Oka
• When bad faith sabotages a system
• PM's post-Meech words hollow
• It cannot be business as usual when the barricades come down
• National Affairs
• Natives accuse army of spying by night
• Divide-and-conquer tactics won't work anymore
• Our leaders go missing just when needed
• The demands by native leaders for full sovereignty cannot be met
• No salutes necessary!
• Home and natives' land ... ?
• After Oka, no more illusions about natives
• Bourassa's hesitation over Oka puts him in nightmarish dilemma
• See how Bourassa handles distinct society in Oka
• Mulroney's promise far from fulfilment
• Flawless irony
• Creative ideas
• Mulroney thinks American on most foreign policy issues
• Cultural regeneration vital as winning rights to natives
• Police protection
• Mulroney should show some gumption at Oka
• Tutu's suggestions not appreciated here
• Bureaucrats too, please
• Mohawks anticipate retaliation by Quebec
• Wick's outcasts
• Media reporters at Oka lacking in enterprise
• Native housing
• Natives silenced
• Political cartoons
  ARTS, CULTURE:
• Culture Comes To Kwawinga (Fiction)
• Innu rockers sidestep politics for pure pop sound
  UP COMING EVENTS:
• Conference on Adolescent Treatment
• Join the Circle Campaign
• Mob attacks Mohawks
• Mohawk chief says agreement near
• PM warns of bloodshed if Mohawks resist army (Mulroney aims to stop crimes of "extremists")
• Protest vigil held at Indian Affairs office
• Families flee reserve under "rain of rocks"
• Indians say sabotage may follow army move
• Protest blocks traffic at Tory office in Metro
• Frightened residents are preparing for the worst
• What the Mohawks are after
• Mohawks ask "for peace" at Kanesatake
• Mohawk Warriors say they'll fight back
• Women, kids "afraid of war" flee reserve
• Mohawk standoff steeped in history
• Sending army against barricades a "declaration of war," chief says
• "Our spirits are strong" say defiant Mohawks
• Army sent to remove Mohawk barricades
• Stop "insanity," Mohawks urge Canadian public
• Government resolve: to stay in power
• Anti-Mohawk mobs barring food, observers say
• Mohawks prepared to open lane on Mercier Bridge (Mohawk move aimed at encouraging talks
• Ottawa's patience wearing thin, PM says
• Lumberman willing to negotiate with Indians
• Mohawks offer olive branch
• "Special show" by PM boosts Quebec MPs
• Indian and Northern Affairs-- Media update
• Warriors represent only themselves, say Six Nations Chiefs
• Soldier of Fortune editor says Warrior attack could be costly
• All are Warriors
• Supplies depleted
• Lodged complaint
• Pessimism about chances for progress in Negotiations
• Native Blockades darken our image abroad
• Mohawk talks stall on guns, amnesty
• Assault would be folly, Erasmus says
• Oka talks vigorous but tense
• End blockade, bishops tell Mohawks
• 3 Kanesatake Mohawks in court, more arrests planned over gun battle
• South Shore residents block natives
• Army provocation could start a "bloodbath", chief warns
• Key talks pending in "tense" Mohawk" standoff
• Warrior official Thompson charged with possessing cigarettes
• Cannot tolerate anarchy, Justice Minister declares
• Soldiers advance, halt talks at Oka
• Talks break down as tension increases at Oka
• Warriors' smuggling, gambling key to Oka dispute, chief says
• Mohawks, soldiers in face-to-face standoff
• Campbell rejects amnesty for Mohawks who break law
• 44% believe natives are treated badly
• Mohawks tricked Quebec, minister says (Talks at Oka "arduous")
• Time almost up for Oka talks, Bourassa says
• Mohawks table demands in talks to end standoffs
• Indian war veterans shoved by Quebec police atblockade
• Food relief organizers -plead for support
• Police pullout removes major irritant(Talks to resume after breather)
• Church condemns "racism"
• Army to relieve police at Quebec's standoffs

FOR COMMENTARY, EDITORIALS, LETTERS AND POLITICAL CARTOONS
REGARDING THE OKA DISPUTE SEE EDITION 90-33.2.

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INNU - NATO LOW LEVEL FLIGHTS:

• NATO members shelve plans for fighter base
• NATO rejects Goose Bay for base, Innu protesters claim victory
• Low-level flights - Commons Debates
• Labrador town awaits NATO-base decision
• Innu group disputes NATO version of jet crash
• The unconsidered option
  MEECH LAKE:
• Committee perpetuates myth of 2 founding nations, natives say
• MPs favor key "add-ons" after Meech accord passes
  LAND CLAIMS:
• Land claim controversy shatters cottage-country calm
• Ottawa offers band $2.47 million deal
• Webequie reserve in the wind
  THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTESTS:
  Water:
• Health hazard found in Ohsweken tap water tied to treatment plant
• Band won't drink water
• Nipigon hits "panic button" for tap water
• Hagersville effect not as bad as feared
• Severn bands battle dams
  Temagami:
• More battles predicted for Temagami
• Act now or lose forests, group says
  AKWESASNE:
• Casino owner predicts chief will lose bid for re-election
• Mohawks worry that culture being lost to lure of gambling
• Gambling on tradition
• RCMP was on alert
• CTV may sue over cop raid
• Gambling opponent charged in murder of Akwesasne Mohawk
• Mohawk murder charge laid
• Mohawk police break ties with Quebec Police
• 4 men held in reserve slaying
• Mohawk slain in bar
• Warriors angry about drug raid
• Officials ignored Indian 's prophecy
• Area Indians feel sad, stunned by violence among brothers
• Grand Portage to get casino
  BUSINESS:
• Native firms growing Air Creebec chief say s
• White corn industry booming, gets boost
• Greenland sealskin saga
• Wawatay wins former Sioux Lookout radar base
  BEDO Newsletter:
• New programming in Economic Development
• From the Editor's Desk
• Training ... that will make the difference
• Calmeadow loan program
• In harmony with the environment
• Economic Development the future
• News Flash
• Reflections and Projections
• Meet your BEDO
  HEALTH:
• Province will train doctors in North
• Fasting for better health care
• Native AIDS epidemic feared
• Infection sparks personal crusade
• Native services set to combat AIDS
• "Shaman lady" took away illness, man with AIDS virus says
• Diabetes spreading quickly among groups
  EDUCATION:
• Few colleges, universities operate special programs
• Counselling service
• Education key to a better life, counselor says
• Twelve nations become one mind
• Are you Native and graduating from high school?
• Big Trout Lake syllabics teacher doesn't go by the books
• Six Nations Council Meeting
• Funding for literacy groups
• Students walk out to protest crest ban
• Pupils fight Redmen ban
  ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Government urged to restore funding
• An art form that helped shape our country
• Art '90 exhibit gives expression to variety of Native experiences
• Native spirit
• Out of the pens of babes does pure art come
• Thomas King and Lenore Keeshig-Tobias discuss native literature
• California Cree medicine woman's Canadian link
• A remarkable woman
• Six Nations festival celebrates friendship
• Natives absent in historical plaques
• Native awareness week - Commons Debates
• Arctic cruise to silent splendor
• Island hopping can be enjoyed close to home
• The quest for truth and purpose in life
• Feminists proclaim a new era

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MEECH LAKE:

• Please see Newsclippings, Edition 90-25.1 for special coverage of Meech Lake.
  EDUCATION:
• Sod-turning for new school
• Juggling the budget to keep promises
• Students would rather go to jail than pay fine for trespassing
• Fines paid
• Increasing Native literacy
• High school gang fights threaten the education of some Native students
  POLICING, JUSTICE:
• Braids now allowed for native officers
• Police, natives try to close the gap
• Controversy grows over police braids
• Number of arrest rise after youth program cut
• Aborigines caught in cycle of despair
  AKWESASNE:
• "It's not over bingo"
• Police occupation of Akwesasne Mohawk territory
  THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH:
• Temagami wilderness agreement unsatisfactory to many
• Safe water
• Water ban lifted
• Indians want to handle health
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• A legitimate use of crime statistics
• Native self-policing
• The curse of civilization
• No objectivity in low-level assessment
• I am a Canadian
  HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Indian chief on wheels
• The lost tribe of Georgian Bay
• Indian village excavated on path of 403 extension
• Ancestral remains uncovered in southern Ontario
• Government rejects protests over purchase of native artifacts
• Kids enjoy Indian lore at day camp
• From igloo to art gallery
• Carving or sculpture?
• Native rights and universal images
• Indian Country paints picture of the dreams, hopes of natives
• Indian athletes shine in history
• Thunder Bay no longer rough but always ready for fun
• Inuit hunters harvest polar bears for cash
• Native grads keep occasion all in the family
• Commons Debates - Literacy
• N.W.T. will try to teach tolerance
• Native students succeed at Daniel Mac
• Unity sealed
• Are you Native and graduating from high school?
  HEALTH:
• Battle against killer AIDS supported by Atlantic chiefs
• Micmacs coming to grips with AIDS
• AIDS: Breaking the silence
• A Deadly Fear: AIDS
• Native nurses tackle tricky family abuse issues
  ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Vetrans observe Decoration Day
• Wet Bread and Cheese weekend
• Elder holds key to studying site
• Elder shares his knowledge of sacred belts
• Biggest swindle in history of Canada
• Altering our notions of the Indian
• History, heroes, horses on Brantford getaway
• Cree artist outlived reputation as a dangerous man
• Hard and Soft
• Ontario Arts Council First Nations Grants
• Grey Owl from the shadows
• Professional troupe dedicated to natives
• COUNCIL FOR CHANGE, PS 2000
• Racism to be probed in Indian Affairs
• Public Service 2000
• PS 2000 more than PR exercise
• "Downsized" public service still growing
• Red Tape: Rules and rigidity choke public services
• Sex, lies, and black-market Bach

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SPECIAL SERIES:
Toronto Star: Their Native Land

• Struggling against stereotypes
• Story of one community reads like a conspiracy
• Innu find new purpose in fight against NATO
• Old-style chiefs want to exercise greater control
• Unseen natives make Toronto biggest reserve
  Globe and Mail: James Bay
• Crees, Quebec in power struggle over massive James Bay project
• There's poison in picture-perfect Chisasibi
• Native enterprises building foundation for arctic nation
• Utility's nation-building potential disputed by Hydro-Quebec critics
• Freshwater seal symbolizes fears for wildlife
• Future of massive project depends on environmental review
• Grassroots movement, lobby groups oppose Hydro-Quebec sales in U.S.
  Meech Lake, Self-Government:
• Meech committee gets an earful in its first week
• Let Meech die, start new talks Dene urge Commons committee
• Guarantee talks, native leaders say
• Voices of doubt
• Native voices facing death of 1000 cuts
• Native leaders criticize severe program cutbacks
• Inuit bid for more autonomy
  Land Claims:
• Dene, Metis sign land-claim deal with Ottawa
• Natives took last chance for land claim
• B.C. plan for wilderness park challenged by native land claim
  The environment, protests:
  Innu:
• Innu fight against NATO flights rouses resentment
• Innu denied injunction to halt flights
• Priests who joined Innu protest against low-level flights is freed
• Court turns aside Innu bid to halt Labrador jet flights
• Priest sentenced for Innu protest
  Temagami:
• Chainsaw to haunt Premier over Temagami
• Crusaders vow to save virgin trees
• Anti-logging protesters take to trees
  Fur Issue:
• Lessons for an environmental age
• Mild winters, market excess spell bad news for trappers
  Asbestos:
• Mere mention of asbestos can reduce property value
  Akwesasne:
• Tensions simmer on reserve as gambling supporter convicted
• Mohawk guilty in blocking casino raid
• Council refuses resignation of grand chief
  Youth, Education:
• Native youth urged to dream for change
• Native Olympic champ proud of being a drug-free athlete
• Kashechewan school
• Indians share skills with London pupils
• Controversial native seminary finally finds home near Winnipeg
  Editorials, letters:
• Charting a path for native people
• Bilingualism is no plague
• Small part of Temagami to be logged
• Irrevocable destruction in Temagami
• Human rights trampled at Goose Bay
• Spend fireworks money on women, natives
• Native people unfairly targeted
  Travel:
• Where the Mounties met Sitting Bull
• Back to Batoche: Recalling last battle fought on Canadian soil
  Upcoming events:
• Keepers of Our Language Conference

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OKA DISPUTE:

• Mohawks dismiss Quebec's threat
• Groups say Ku Klux Klan is active in Chateauguay
• Adviser fears Bourassa set to send troops
• Solidarity run
• Klan moving in, rights groups say
• Bourassa fires ultimatum at Oka Mohawks
• Bourassa sets 48-hour ultimatum for Indians
• Quebec rejects "unacceptable" Indian plan
• Fury in the ranks
• An ancient Warrior code
• Mohawks claim deal in works to start talks
• Residents protest Mohawk blockade
• Residents strike back
• Police ordered not to view tapes
• Quebec okays observers for standoff
• Gunshots at Oka put police force, Mohawks on alert
• Baby clothes delayed by police at Oka
• Blockade reporters rebel at restrictions of armed Warriors
• Angry commuters threaten to raise counter blockade
• Oka land-purchase plan highlights flaws in claims settlement process
• It has rights too, village says
• 12,000 protest Mohawk blockade
• End bridge blockade, furious merchants insist ·
• Antique store vandalized after owner urges "reason"
• Indians deny militants move in
• Minister must see Mohawks, Chretien says
• Mohawks hail observer plan as "breakthrough"
• Siddon rejects "barricades", turns attention to B.C. claims
• Oka refuses to sell land until Mohawks disarm
• Standoff seen hurting Canada
• Police barricade can stay up, judge rules
• It's up to the Mohawks now, Quebec says
• U.N. body ponders Oka dispute
• Ontario, B.C. Indians slow traffic over land claims
• Bridge blockade
• 2 Mohawks file class-action suit for losses caused by police barricade
• Teacher has harrowing ride to school
• Human rights official arrives from Paris
• Business is booming for canteen operator
• Unity dance part of Hamilton protest supporting Oka
• Six Nations and New Credit residents rally to the aid of Mohawks at Oka
• Positions harden as Quebec standoffs continue
• Micmacs join Mohawk protest
• A stand of support
• Natives block lane of Hwy.69
  LAND CLAIMS, NATIVE 8IGHTS:
• RCMP deny any move on dam
• Indians threaten water supply to Albertans
• Indians reject view of history
• Ottawa land bid withdrawn, lawyer says
• Ottawa won't pay B.C. land claim bill
• Feds, natives sign deal
  JUSTICE:
• Aboriginal justice system recommended
• Indians to get own courts and police
• Council asked to review remarks
  FOREST FIRES:
• Fires threaten 2 communities
• Water bombers may be sent to northern fires
  HEALTH AND HOUSING:
• Community control aids native health
• Trio's tugboat journey to aid Inuit kids
• Natives say Lalonde owes them apology
• Lalonde reverses on native housing
• Bad solution to Vaniers vicious circle
• Indians protest Vanier bid to limit native housing
  EDITORIALS, COMMENTARY, LETTERS:
• To address native land claims
• Oka talks needs clear focus
• Public support crucial in Oka debacle
• Negotiate with the first people
• Haunted by history's lively ghosts
• Did Harry Swain really misspeak?
• Don't let Peterson ignore this issue
• Anti-native racism exposed in wake of Oka tragedy
• A meeting of nations
• White politics drive Mohawks into warrior mode
• The Indians have not forgotten their warriors
• Japanese Canadian discover a common cause
• When Ottawa tries to "manage" opinion
• Lessons of the Iroquois
• Both sides deserve better
• Mohawks locked in power struggle
• The days are past when an Indian Affairs minister could sit out the job
• How TV twists the truth
• Oka dispute evokes bitter memories
• We must recognize our native's dignity
• Respect and honor bestowed upon a new Canadian hero
• Let's not allow a golf course to ruin us
• Letters to Toronto Sun
• Police search young people
• License only natives to hunt and fish
• Quebec, federal forces are gang of criminals
• Enforcing letter of law can't be done at Oka
• Remove the government guns at Oka
• Golf course sale raise more questions
• Letter to Toronto Sun
• Ottawa should give Oka land to Mohawks
• Ben Wicks cartoons
• Does history have a lesson for those using loaded words on Oka?
  ARTS, CULTURE:
• Indians' fish tales tall, but true
• From the solemn to the casual
• "Ancient images" on national tour
• Spirit, rage fuel Baker's potent poetry

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OKA DISPUTE:

• Observers arrive for talks to end Mohawk standoff
• Tear gas fired again in skirmish at bridge
• Residents, police clash near Mercier Bridge
• Mercier Bridge crowd tear-gassed by police
• Police tear-gas mob protesting native blockade
• Mohawks split over continued bridge blockade
• Mohawk talks back on track after fears on army eased
• Mohawks applaud mediator's approach
• Can't compare troop's roles, PM says
• Ottawa ready to be patient in ending of standoffs, PM says
• Soldiers awaiting orders on Oka
• Province to cover losses from standoff
• Calling the shots behind the Mohawk mask
• Ottawa sending troops to Quebec
• UN questions Canada's image
• Quebec will control army at blockades
• PM sends in troops to defuse Mohawk standoffs
• Army's role at barricades still unclear
• Bridge to Montreal open "very soon", chief predicts
• Mohawks relieved police to move out
• Oka council okays land deal
• Oka residents flee, fear battle looming
• Troops might not go to Oka, military commander says
• Mohawk might
• Oka residents flee possible showdown
• Ottawa still refuses to negotiate
• Churches ask PM to avert violence
• Frustrated residents demand army be sent in
• Native activist fears bloodshed
• Prime Minister's statement on Oka
• Oka relief drive still underway locally
  ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU'S VISIT:
• Tutu supports Ojibwa
• Ojibways warn Tutu of more violence
• Tutu upholds native struggle
• Tutu says he's willing to help out in Oka crisis
• Many faiths to see Tutu in Metro
• Ojibwa leaders keen to share problems with Tutu
• Live television exchange planned
  CHIEFS' MEETING:
• Chiefs demand premiers open annual meeting
• Chiefs fail to crash meeting of premiers
  RACE RELATIONS, SOCIAL JUSTICE:
• Report recommends working together to cure
• Sioux Lookout social illness
• Angeconeb resigns from Race Relations Committee
• Chiefs appeal for children and justice
  LAND CLAIMS:
• Policy reversed on land claims
• B.C. will join talks on land claims
• B.C. gets warning on claims
  THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTESTS:
• Council supports move to ban MNR pesticide spraying program
• Chemicals meet federal guidelines says MNR district forest manager
• Father and daughter will risk health to stop chemical spraying
• 400 protest Lake Huron nuclear plant
• Indians block CN rail lines
• Chief issues warning
• Cree compensation deal in jeopardy
  ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUSINESS:
• Indians join non-natives to build posh tourist resort
• Natives join developer
• Officials differ on future of Temagami
• Seven bands start fuel supply business in Pickle Lake
• Two bands get grants to expand television service
• Bands minding their own business
• Communications society struggles to stay on air following funding cuts
  HOUSING:
• Affordable housing project launched on
• Cornwall Island
• Talks aim to end Third-World conditions for native groups
  EDUCATION:
• Literacy program helps Natives to upgrade their literacy skills
  EDITORIALS, COMMENTARY, LETTERS :
• One law for all
• No role for Tutu
• Inching towards an Oka solution
• The Mohawks should come to the table
• An ultimatum sure to backfire
• Racism is alive and well in Canada
• National mythology behavior lesson
• Did Bourassa dither too long over crisis in Oka?
• Standoff in Quebec remains perilous
• Bourassa unlikely to send in the troops
• MNR's fire-fighting "strategy" in North baffling
• Wick's Outcasts
• Carrying a gun no way to negotiate
• Bring Clark to Oka
• Native peoples want no more token gestures
• Let red ribbons fly across Canada in support of our native people
• Native justice system long overdue
  ARTS, CULTURE:
• Focus on native issues
• Obomsawin kicks off Reel World after visit
• Winnipeg wants to build road over The Forks
• Longs for old ways
• Chippewa powwow a chance to promote Indians' culture
• Powwow enjoys international popularity
• Grand River Pow Wow - Bigger and Better
• Powwow helps preserve culture
• Native people changing ways of seeing
  OP COMING EVENTS:
• Conference on Adolescent Treatment
• Join the Circle Campaign

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Akwesasne:

• Reserve police force suggested by Cuomo
• Lack of autonomy cited in Akwesasne violence
• Mohawk victim was innocent bystander
• Sovereignty is solution to strife
• Gunfire and gambling
• "Death list" keeps Mohawks from returning
• Mohawks wait out strife in government barracks
• Gun silent but the fury remains
• Akwesasne counts cost of blood
• Stability possible native leaders say
• Ruling body proposed for entire reserve
• A cautious return
• Single native governing body may be solution
• Police peacekeepers will stay until reserve safe
• Warriors have hit list
• Five governments meet
• Show of force halts gambling war
• Cadieux defends reserve inaction
• The Akwesasne war: why can't the Mohawks settle it themselves?
• Split by a river and a mishmash of differences
• Mohawk factions fight nine-hour gun battle
• Police enter Mohawk reserve; army sends backup
• Emergency talks set to quell native violence
• Police asked to stop gun battles
• Prepared to send in troops - Cuomo tells Mohawks
• 500 Mohawks waiting off reserve amid peace talks in casino war
• Akwesasne battle creating refugees
  The environment, protests:
  Temagami:
• Deft dealing
• Temagami not yet saved, group says
  James Bay:
• Quebec Inuit reconsider Hydro project
  Land claims:
• Final Arctic agreement signed in Canada's largest land claim
  Adoption:
• Canadian-born Indian angry over adoption by family in U.S.
• Manitoba Indians try to trace lost generation"
  Justice:
• Canada urged to bar extradition of Indian
• Women's prisons
• Native women's advocacy group
• Native volunteers needed in crime prevention
• Racism still a problem, Alberta native probe told
• Reserve radicals terrorize elders
  Health:
• Cree with AIDS wants to help other Indians with the illness
• The joy and sorrow of sobering up Alkali Lake
• Remains mailed in jam box
  Youth, education, culture:
• Commons debates: Aboriginal people, needs of youth
• Support urged for native languages foundation
• Marshall urges young natives to be proud
• Hopi travels globe with message
• Native educator helps break down teepee stereotype
• Native school concept pushed
• Sweat-lodge tradition arrives
• 32 native students to graduate with degrees
• Native graduates "beat odds"
• Nicola Valley Institute of Technology
• Interest groups doom school's "Redmen" logo
• Nature of lake accurately dates Indian villages
• Lessons in democracy from the Big Stones
• Buffalo hunts vivid memory
  Arts:
• Her poetry has phases, like the moon
• Poet strives for "authentic" sketches of natives
• Native designer makes fashion statement
• Retailing tradition at Treeline Trappings
  Editorials, letters:
• Akwesasne
• Do we really care?
• Law and disorder
• Who's in charge here?
• Problems allowed to build
• Chiefs must work for peace
• Mohawk unrest obscures native entrepreneurship
• Hope remains for Meech Lake
• Abolish racist legacy
• CTV report on Akwesasne was factual
• Bad for the natives
• Reinstate funding for native programs

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• Manitoba natives seek Queen's help in school dispute -London
• Haida claim to Moresby is delaying federal park - Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C.
• Promises not enough to sustain logging town - Sandspit, B.C.
• Mohawks set to vote on casinos at reserve - Toronto
• Forest fire victims head home - Winnipeg
• Native 'Fred Astaire' still willing, nimble at 71 - Sarcee Reserve, Alta.
• B.C. grants new reserve to Indian band forced off land - Prince Rupert, B.C.
• RCMP were diligent, native inquiry told - The Pas , Man.
• Alberta native bands still suffering year after reserves ravaged by fire - Sunchild-O'Chiese Reserves, Alta.
• Immunity deal void if witness lies, aboriginal justice probe told - The Pas, Man.
• Sovereignty of Mohawks issue in case - Hogansburg, N~Y.
• Native feminist, 54, spends time fighting for women, families - Inuvik, N.W.T.
• The hidden price of power exports - Ottawa
• Natives did too little to bring teen's killers to trial, inquiry told - The Pas, Man.
• Let us not neglect our native people - letter to Ottawa editor
• Singing to save the trees - Vancouver
• The new lineup (Ont. cabinet) is ... - Toronto
• More about Osborne case
• Chemical Valley spills bedevil Ontario town - Sarnia
• Excavating an Indian village - Toronto
• Indians' quest for an equal place - letter to Toronto editor
• Nurses on reserves threaten to resign - Winnipeg
• More about Akwesasne blockade
• Crews fly to northeastern Ontario blazes - Sault Ste. Marie
• Hand-picked officers to teach race relations to police forces - Toronto
• More about Osborne case
• More about Akwesasne blockade
• Divide and conquer - Toronto editorial
• No move yet by district natives to sign defense pact - Thunder Bay
• Four native students help in post-secondary program - Sault Ste. Marie
  • More about forest fire danger - Parry Sound
• Animation of Inuit legend - Ottawa
• Concern for economic future - Temagami
• Chief asks annexation delay - Blind River
• More about Akwesasne blockade
• More about Temagami
• Other native groups will seek status as bands - Ottawa
• Sharing the cost of the fires - Winnipeg editorial
• An educational failure - Winnipeg
• Treatment centre opens at Rat Portage - Kenora
• More about Temagami
• Cultural genocide and child care - Toronto
• Cape Croker basket weaver - Owen Sound

The following folder includes

ABORGINAL RIGHTS:

• Natives say fishing rights victory will help with land claims
• Natives acclaim court's decision
• Governments can't ignore aboriginal rights, court rules
• Impact of ruling on native fishing is disputed
• Provinces must respect native rights, judges rule
• Aboriginal rights
• Unhappy hunting
  JUSTICE:
• Give "culturally sensitive" award, Donald Marshall's lawyer argues
• Nova Scotia accused of trying to limit Marshall compensation
• N.S. judges still insist Marshall shares blame for murder conviction
• Special compensation urged in Marshall case
• Marshall judges facing inquiry
• Defense lawyers want full disclosure
• Donald Marshall's lawyers billed $588,000
• Donald Marshall to blame for conviction, probe told
  POLICING:
• Chiefs blast Ottawa policing report
• RCMP changes policy for natives
• Darts and Laurels
• Shooting of J.J. Harper
  MEECH LAKE:
• Doer vows to stall Meech if women, natives ignored
• Native leaders press for role at conference
• Natives want to participate in conference
• Commons Debates - Aboriginal Affairs
  AKWESASNE:
• Pro-gambling candidate's victory sparks charges of "irregularities"
• Gambling supporter wins election as chief of embattled Mohawk tribe
• Tensions remain high on Mohawk reserve
• Natives hire lawyer in bid to oust leader
• N.Y. police end blockade of the Akwesasne reserve
• Mohawk Warrior in court on weapons charges
  NATIVE GOVERNMENT:
• Walpole Island council getting back to normal
  THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTESTS:
• Gull Bay's tree cutting called model
• Natives pushing for bigger share of forests
• Native forestry effort encouraged to continue
• Natives must work for more control of forests
• Hagersville Tire Fire cleanup costs pegged at 15 million
• Hydro progect's impact on environment to be assessed
• Crees call Quebec hydro hearings a sham
• The cold facts about testing nuclear arms in the Arctic
• Cadmium, mercury found in flesh of Arctic whales
• Innu ecstatic with NATO base decision, but know training flights will continue
• Innu fear toxic fumes from crash site of F-16s
• Innu question claims of high-altitude crash
  EDUCATION:
• Convicted trespassers will appeal or opt for jail
• Student group blasts native prosecutions
• Prosecutions anger students
• Native women take control of airwaves
• Meech - Lake accord will add to plight of our native people
• What hypocrites we Canadians are
• Canada's treatment of native people is a cause for national shame
• Wick's outcasts
  Upcoming events:
• Images '90

The following folder includes:

• Temagami battle could have been settled years ago Toronto commentary
• Inquiry lifts 18-year veil of secrecy on murder The Pas, Man.
• Indians guided Mackenzie to Pacific -letter to Toronto editor
• Judge won't rule on police notebooks -Winnipeg
• Alberta MP, Sarcee chief stampede toward resolving bridge blockade- Calgary
• Land deal with Metis called breakthrough -Kikino, Alta.
• Different -in a manner of speaking -Toronto commentary
• Native people want more respect -Toronto commentary
• Collecting native art riddled with controversy -Toronto
• Archeologists losing battle with site looters -Toronto
• Land-claim deal upsets Nfld. Tory -St. John's, Nfld.
• Time of slings & arrows for Cadieux -Toronto commentary
• Health care payments violate treaty rights, natives tell Ontario -Toronto
• Mohawks win special rights on boarder taxes -Cornwall
• Alberta Indians block armed forces use of land -Calgary
• Five centuries of misunderstanding Indians -Toronto book review
• Panel calls for native health authority -Muskrat Dam
• BC Indians given tax break on reserves -Vancouver
• National registry set up to reunite aboriginal families -Vancouver
• Soviets to let Inuit attend Arctic parley -Ottawa
• More about health panel report
• Kee Way Win band to continue pushing for status as reserve -Thunder Bay
• Debris cleaned up -Pikangikum
• Temagami logging road too costly, critic says -Toronto
• Mohawks join fight in support of Crees -Montreal
• Natives lose bid in persuading Commons committee on education policy -Ottawa
  -Summer Beaver's prospects for new school called good Thunder Bay
• Band opens Gardens Village apartment complex -North Bay
• More for native education -Winnipeg editorial
• Demonstration draws attention to education and budget cutbacks -Ottawa
• More about education as treaty right
• Canadians just can't stop honoring native treaties -letter to Sault Ste. Marie editor

The following folder includes

INTERNATIONAL VISIT:

• Trip to Osnaburg by Desmond Tutu
  BUSINESS:
• Greater GST relief sought by Indians
• Foundation's loan program expanding to non-natives
• Dress business expanding into new building on Tyendinaga reserve
• Down Home shop marks 256th business on S.N .
• Tourism: Natives are sitting on a gold mine
• Natives overcoming barriers
• Native youths urged to become active
• Ministry announces grant for Sandy Lake
  LAND CLAIMS, TREATIES:
• Supreme Court ruling on treaty called victory for natives in Quebec
• Indians hail "historic judgment" on 1760 treaty
• Land selection hits a snag in Delta
  MEECH LAKE:
• We must keep talking
• Oral Question Period - Commons Debates
• Special Commons Committee proposals
  AKWESASNE:
• Pro-gambler faces weapons charge
• Mohawks protest police on reserve
• Minnesota casino looks to Ontario
• News editor out on bail in reserve killing
• Tony Laughing discovers he has no deal on avoiding jail
• On St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, dogs prove trooper's best friends
• Warrior spokesman charged in dispute at police roadblock
• Lawyer claims police out of line during arrest
• "Lousy shot" George not murdering type
• Cuomo says traditionals to have role
  POLICE RELATIONS, JUSTICE:
• Rights body seeks probe of police-relations
• Native justice system encouraged
  EDUCATION:
• Natives push for aboriginal language education
• Unity sealed
• Native students get taste of Metro
• Native students need role model
• Webequie school empty since March
• School year slipping away for Webequie students
• Protesters merely exercising their rights, lawyer says
• Are you native and graduating from High School?
  THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTESTS:
• Downtrodden hold the key to saving the planet
• Time running out
• Ten Temagami protesters to be tried sometime in September
• NATO defense officials nix base on Innu land
• NWT, natives complain Defense changing tune
• Natives upset over jet base
• Minister gave warning on Indian funds
• Vancouver Island Indian bands want compensation
  HEALTH:
• Fasting for better health care -- Part 1
  ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Wild game gets "canned" in Peawanuck
• Timmins gathering has become a tradition
• Paula Gunn Allen
• Lessons that natives can teach whites
• Puppets of their own past
• A life in spirals
• AGO exhibits new Inuit donation
• National Museum home to 400,000 pieces of the Yukon
• Blackfoot artifacts are returned to Alberta
• Native theatre group
• Papers will try to continue
• CP establishes native scholarship
  TRAVEL:
• More the merrier in Heritage Year on Manitoulin
• Head-Smashed-In lives on to recall buffalo glory
• Young brave suffered for curiosity
• Danger and beauty on Ellesmere Island
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Tear it up and start again
• Witness to native betrayal
• Stop shuffling ministers
• Warriors fall to Trickster
• 200 years ago animals were fair game
• Rename Victoria Day
  UPCOMING EVENTS:
• Pow Wow Summer

The following folder includes

• Fur-bidding sessions are link to past-Manitoba
• Comments demand inquiry - Toronto commentary
• B.C. bands on brink of self-government - Vancouver
• Elmira plant· told to stop dumping of chemical
• Toward native self-sufficiency - Toronto commentary
• $50,000 spent to promote bingo on reserve - Toronto
• Fighting for justice - Alberta
• Food prices in North to jump - Montreal
• Death arouses criticism - Winnipeg
• Native people's dilemma: tradition vs. jobs-Edmonton
• Reserve protests train cut - Winnipeg
• Lubicons ask Getty to clarify offer - Edmonton
• Candles lit to support Lubicons - Edmonton
• Remove "racist, sexist" judge - Edmonton
• Order of Canada honors skater - Toronto
• Whitefish, Sturgeon Lake band claims finalized
• Indians reach land deal - Calgary
• Death rate triple for Indians under 35 - Toronto
• Fur auction prices drop from last year's levels
• Lubicons get better offer from province - Edmonton
• Sexual assault in NWT less violent, judge asserts
• New act requires police to hire more minorities
• Remember the ones we too often forget - Toronto
• Indian land claim threatened - Edmonton
• Goose Bay opposes LIA petition
• AFL backs Lubicon oil shutdown
• Mohawks divided over casinos - USA Today
• Games boost economies - USA Today
• Bands without reserve status may have case heard again
• Chiefs turn down offer to re-write Indian Act

This following folder includes

• Churchill is the solution - Toronto commentary
• Dredging halt demanded by Walpole Island - Toronto
• Shots fired as buses leave bingo parlor - Cornwall Island
• Band extends school boycott over buildings - Ohsweken
• Ottawa using Indian funds as source of cheap loans, band says - Toronto
• Marshall case judges cannot be questioned, Supreme Court rules - Ottawa
• Native system of justice is possible: - Sioux Lookout ex-grand chief
• Public review expected for Jackfish power plans - Thunder Bay
• Native self-govt hinges on changing opinions: leader - Thunder Bay
• Bones unearthed at Whitefish reserve - Sioux Narrows
• Group fighting for Shoal Lake mine gets nod for grant - Winnipeg
• 9 protesting jets over Innu land dragged from ·govt sit-in- Toronto
• Manitoulin chiefs seeking cash settlement for lands - Gore Bay
• Almost 1 in 4 family murders involves natives - Toronto
• More about Six Nations schools
• Low-level jets draw legal flack - Toronto commentary
• Manitoba native-justice inquiry holds up a mirror with ugly reflections - Toronto commentary
• Museum scraps plans for native showcase - Ottawa
• Racism in 1971 fed coverup of killing, native probe told - Winnipeg
• A headdress for a new chief - Toronto
• More about the Manitoba justice inquiry
• Animal rights activists launch anti-fur protests - Toronto
• Native producer hopes tape will help reduce racism - Ottawa
• Natives should take lesson from Japanese: native MP - Edmonton
• Native mental health conference in Thunder Bay
• Native justice system a threat to charter, attorney general says - Ottawa
• Why don't we work with nature instead of fighting it - Toronto commentary
• Cadieux: we need more places like technical school - Belleville
• Minister promises more funding - Belleville
• The sky's the limit for these natives - Belleville
• Tyendinaga institute opens aerospace program for natives - Kingston
• More about Walpole Island dredging concerns
• Native Canadians focus of church events - Kingston
• The Temagami road protest - Sault Ste. Marie editorial
• Six Nations claims Edinburgh Square - Ohsweken
• Lack of funds cited as mining problem - Dryden
• Sarnia force hires first native female
• Looking out for aboriginal rights - Ottawa commentary

The following folder includes

NORTHERN ONTARIO RAILWAY BLOCKADES/LAND CLAIMS & PROTESTS:

• CP Rail traffic back to normal
• Indians block road
• Schedule normal again for CP rail
• Native rail blockades razed
• PM under fire over blockades
• Band lifts blockade of CP Rail
• Governments turn ear to natives
• Worry grows over cost of Indian rail blockades
• Pays Plat band told to clear track
• Band lifts CN blockade after injunction granted
• Court order won't open route
• Peigan Indians attempt to divert Oldman River
• CN asks court to remove natives (Railway blockade costs mount)
• Natives block highway
• Railway blocked at Long Lake
• Indian Commission agrees to disagree
• Quick-fix plan on land claims seeks progress within a month
• Federal commitment to Ontario Indians confirmed
• Report makes far-reaching recommendations for four Windigo communities
  ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:
• 4,000 bison should be killed federal panel says
• Northerners return home after fire evacuation
• Chemical spraying north of Sioux Lookout postponed
  ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU'S VISIT:
• Tutu visit made Ojibwa reserve visible-- briefly
• Support for Indians seen as trap for Tutu
• Tutu comes to Osnaburgh (Tutu brings message of hope to residents of Osnaburgh)
• Wawatay broadcast of Tutu visit cancelled
• People come from near and far to shar~ in Tutu's visit to Osnaburgh
  RACE RELATIONS AND NATIVE RIGHTS:
• Race relations training plan to be tested by Metro Police
• Report reveals Sioux Lookout has a race relations problem
• Independent First Nations Alliance calls Geneva trip "fruitful"
  EDUCATION/ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT:
• Obstacles bar chief's quest to finance Inuvik College
• Indians continue cross-country run
• Education Task Force Up-Date
• MDs urged to remove barriers to natives
• Reserve to have woman's shelter
• Band in charge of nursing station construction
• Native nursing hone proposal rejected by Health Ministry
• Council stands firm against GST
  CRIMES COMMITTED ON NATIVES
• Slashed body identified as drifter, 27
• Hunt for long-lost son has tragic end
  POLITICS:
• Status Indians number half a million
• Land-claim dispute may hurt NDP
• Manitoba native woos northern vote
• Difficulties stem from archaic, paternalistic Indian Act
• A different, quieter point of view: Canada's native MPs and senators
  COMMENTARY, EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Commentary
• Rae speak with forked tongue?
• The first native blockade
• PM's style invites crisis
• Support this native protest
• Warriors respect soldiers
• Does Canada want a Wounded Knee?
• People who throw stones
• A royal commission could help all Canadians grapple with native issues
• Don't stop to conquer
• We're on the brink of civil war
• Army ready to smash way in
• First Nations or one nation?
• Inquiry must end this mess
• Next steps after the barricades come down
• The trouble with using the military is that force has unintended results
• Where were the other voices?
• Emergency projects offer commuters dubious gains
• Tell us what's happening, please
• Recall Parliament to deal with crises
• Shifting Political landscapes in a surreal Quebec
• Time for Unity
• Hanging Frogs & Burning Indians
• CBC's usually staid Journal flips over the Mohawk crisis
• Repeal the Indian Act and stop blockades
• Strange images of Canada
• The Ugly Canadian
• Native justice denied
• A resource of people
• Editorials
• Two-faced justice in Mohawk crisis
• No winners here
• How support is lost for native causes
• Playing for time
• Quebec's justice is on trial
• The Summer of Discontent
• How will the civil authorities deal with the Mohawk Warriors' weapons?
• The Squeaky-Wheel Syndrome
• Unpack your troubles...
• Seaway motor road: yes, but
• Peaceful outcome is possible
• Natives in Parliament
• Letters
• Indian land claims are preposterous
• No empty promises
• How much longer are we going to allow native people to defy the law?
• Improved by Indians
• Mohawks not subject to Canadian law
• Invisible native people
• Wicks' Outcasts
• Canada's natives, wild animals exloited by fur lobby
• MOHAWKS: Is it right to punish them for our prolonged neglect of their plight?
• Political Cartoons
  ARTS, CULTURE:
• Common mother tongue speaks to the brotherhood of man
• Can authenticity flourish within boundaries?
• Native display besieged at CNE
• Book review: One man's attempt to understand the Indian experience
• Oka understood by native conductor and benefactor
  UP COMING EVENTS:
• Conference on Adolescent Treatment
• NIPA '90: A Conference on Native Photography and Art
• Sound of the Drum Conference
• Join the Circle Campaign
• National Addictions Awareness Week
• Do You Need Our Help? (Native Canadian Centre of Toronto)

This following folder includes

• OPP bill almost $1 million in Temagami logging fight
• Indian bands back protest on logging
• Wells close after Lubicon band's threat - Little Buffalo
• A Lesson in Misery - Canadian Indians look back in anger at residential schools
• Attempt to squelch Meech discord inflames showdown
• Six Nations Schools
• Violence feared over crackdown on bingo - Montreal
• Native groups demand role in Alberta mill - Edmonton
• Opponents of pulp-mill projects give Environment Minister earful - Calgary
• Ottawa sets up panel on Indian health care
• Indian status didn't change - Toronto
• Lubicon land-claim offer won't change - Calgary
• More about Six Nations
• Police issue warrants for top 3 organizers of Kahnawake bingo
• Native dancer's sci-fi connection - Toronto
• More about Kahnawake
• MP demands judicial inquiry into native suicides
• Chief acclaimed - Brantford
• Companies hire too few minorities - Ottawa
• Native Women challenge art ideas - Ottawa
• More about Kahnawake - Montreal
• Foes of Meech riding a wave of intolerance Peterson says - Saint John
• more about the Lubicons
• Disabilities hit Indians on reserves at almost twice rate in non-natives
• Chief encourage Innu to shoot at military jets - Winnipeg
• The native nightmare of Alberta - Standoff, Alta.
• more about disabilities on Northern reserves
• more about the Mohawks of Kahnawake - commentary
• Shots fired at police car on reserve - Cornwall
• Letters about native housing and Temagami to Toronto editors
• Their brother's keeper - Edmonton
• Shooting at phantoms - Halifax commentary
• Indians will set up schools if no teaching reforms are made native Manitoba judge warns - Winnipeg
• Indians to be consulted on education - Ottawa
• Speed lands claims officials told - Winnipeg
• Inquiry ends with calls for native legal system- Winnipeg
• more about Six Nations schools

The following folder includes

• Native peoples downgraded, letter
• Manitoba natives form Liberal club
• Alliance of Indian bands forms to fight for rights
• Military flights cancelled over NWT, Alberta
• Heroes who battled tire fire fantastic volunteers
• Inuit images of trees
• Burn or recycle tires?
• "Visual reminder" of Literacy Year
• Cuts will kill native newspaper - letter
• Funding reductions block dialogue - letter
• RCMP bowed to N.S. politics
• Rain could hurt Hagersville cleanup
• Innu vow not to end protests over flights
• RCMP admits bungling Marshall investigation
• Who speaks for Cree? - letter
• Sequel puts Phillips in contact with his native roots
• N.S. court gives Micmacs constitutional right to fish
• RC church building NWT centre for natives
• Cabinet sifts plans to fix tire hazards
• The unkindest cut - political cartoon
• Micmac rights case hailed as landmark
• Carl Beam
• Native novel explores white appropriations
• Indian leaders call for flexibility in uses for welfare payments
• Ontario band chief in U.K.
• Chretien's policies too vague, natives say
• Mulronev "sceptical" low-level base will be built
• Temagami protesters interrupt meeting
• Why multiculturalism can't end racism
• Metro's tire-recycling plant may close
• Dancing boosts native children's images
• Ottawa hypocritical in marking Inuit literacy
• Close women's jail - native leader
• Akwesasne propose closing the border
• Akwesasne
• Welcome to Mulroney's latest $30-billion bonfire
• Canada's growing intolerance
• Kanesatake chief fails to renew court injunction
• More shooting hist Mohawk's reserve
• Ottawa, natives hit treaty snag
• Native people need to reassess their values, says psychiatrist
• Native people must solve own problems
• 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival no cause for celebration S.A. Indian says

The following folder includes

LAND CLAIMS:

• Band ordered to remove barricades blocking road
• Mohawks refuse to end blockade
• North Shore bands moving to forge plan of action for land claim dispute
• Chilcotin Indians threaten blockade
• Lubicons threaten action
  THE ENVIRONMENT:
• Beaufort spill warning disputed
• Ottawa rapped over oil spill plans
• N.W.T. leases land for air base
• War to save Great Whale
• Tragic toll of a power struggle
• Band hopes unilateral declaration will halt loggers
• Indians escape MNR violations
• No obvious damage from caustic spill
• Conservation serious business
• Indians optimistic after fishing ruling
• Micmac hunting regulations proposed
  HEALTH:
• A monument to Inuit sorrow
• Alcoholism means an end to the Dreaming for Aborigines
• Alberta Natives open addiction treatment centre
• Diabetes striking native children
• AIDS misconception
  LANGUAGE, EDUCATION:
• "Language nest" helps Maoris recover ancient roots
• Striving to save a dying language
• Guardians of Inuit culture
• Micmacs lament loss of newspaper
• Manitoba's youngest native graduate
• UOI post-secondary negotiations
• Native education strategy
• Tuition agreement to benefit students
• Webequie pupils to pass despite lost school days
  HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Indian adventure greets camp kids
• Camp teaches kids Indian heritage without modern-day stereotypes
• Twelve "Canadianisms" that make us special
• O Canada
• Native site discovered
• Rock drawings
• Lake a natural museum of our early past
• A portrait of a rare Canadian original
• Signs of struggle
• Sculptor to receive $100,000 award
• Calling for planes in Iqaluit "like calling a cab" in Ontario
• A prayer for the nation
• Indigenous Games "will make us strong"
  UPCOMING EVENTS:
• Non-Insured Health Benefits
• Gull Bay Pow-wow

The following folder includes

BUSINESS:

• Indians threaten court action over GST plans
• Indians come up with plan to counter GST
• Indians promise to lead charge against new tax
• Native business can work
• Can Ojibwa learn from Bangladesh?
• Res '90
• National Conference on Native entrepreneurship
• Natives focus on development
• New pipeline part of takeover
• New training program urged for native day-care workers
  NATIVE JUSTICE:
• Native enjoy taste of tribal justice
• Marshall, family awarded $700,000
• 19 Years covered by chronology
• Marshall feels "pretty satisfied" with $700,000 in compensation
• Ottawa may share cost of award to Marshall
• Native inmates seek permits for ceremonies
• RCMP guard ignored suicide threats
• Indians in B.C. fight for better treatment
• Minnie Sutherland's children sue City of Hull
• Young natives to get taste of RCMP
  AKWESASNE:
• Casinos could open soon, says new St. Regis chief
• Bid to pass gambling law angers Akwesasne leaders
• Pro-gambling chief sworn in
• Akwesasne invites Nelson Mandela for visit
  MEECH LAKE AFTERMATH, SELF-GOVERNMENT:
• Who murdered Meech?
• Ontarians optimistic that Canada will survive
• Natives want more control
• Indian chiefs "determined" to claim rights
• Indian leaders ask PM to form commission on aboriginal affairs
• Indian chiefs hail Harper for his role killing Meech
• National chief's summit
• All's Well that ends Wells
• Native leaders say they've felt Ottawa's snub
• Indian chiefs hold summit
• Queen shares "sadness"
• Alberta Indians seek Queen's aid
• PM finds scapegoats for accord's failure
• The text of Brian Mulroney's speech to Canada
• Common's debates: Meech Lake and Aboriginal Peoples
• Natives protest foot-dragging on status claims
• U.S. Indians fight to regain tribal rights
  EDITORIALS, COMMENTARY, LETTERS:
• A just settlement
• Meech Lake swamped
• Older and much better
• What the original French-English bargain means in a nation of minorities
• Patient realism is better than ultimatums
• Let's listen to the first claim to a distinct society
• Some of the other rights of Natives
• Wells, Harper left nation bitterly divided
• PM taking back offer to natives disgraceful
• Program open to all
• If the country is to survive it must stop tinkering around the edges
• After 300 bitter years a native hero appears
• With Harper and Wells Canada will rise again
• The people are superior to the Constitution
• NATO should cancel low-level training flights
• Aboriginal people got their message across
• The natives' struggle for justice
• Muzzles the media
• Dedicated MLA
• Harper lauded
  PLEASE SEE NEWS CLIPPINGS EDITI ON 90-27.2 FOR MORE NEWS

The following folder includes

Land Claims and Treaties:

• Indian land claims deal breakthrough
• Largest land claim must be declared "null and void": Quebec Crees
• Hurdles remain in settling land claims
• B.C. called "thief" during land claim trial
• Negotiators optimistic Dene-Metis will sign
• Judge clears Iroquois on hunting. charges, cites 1701 land treaty
• New forum for treaty disputes
• Standing committee on aboriginal affairs
  Akwesasne:
• Mohawks stall probe of shots at copter
• Roadblocks keep U.S. officials from reserve
• Pro-gambling Indians burn two blockades
• Police-Mohawk standoff enters third day
• Gunfire from Mohawk land downs helicopter
• Mohawks burn reserve blockades
• Anti-gamblers rebuild roadblock
• Judge refuses mistrial call
  The environment, protests:
• Innu hope ruling will help end NATO flights
• Ground jets during review, Innu say
• Nato's base
• Temagami group threatens to blockade road
• U.S. militants to join protest
• Province yet to decide on logging
• Quebec Cree hope to stop hydro project
• Native leaders meet mediator
• Quebec natives continue paddle
• Fur and loathing in Toronto
  Judicial inquiries:
• Marshall "stuck to his guns"
• Money can't ease ordeal, Marshall Sr.
• Probing Minnie's death
• Native artist spent 4 years at Alfred reform school
  Economy:
• $5.8 million commercial complex announced Moose Factory
• Native newspaper gets boost in funding
• Prospectors stake claims in Temegami
• Walpole faces deficit crisis
• Walpole to have more say in running school
  Health Care and Social Issues:
• Gov't "slow" to move on native AIDS risk
• An eagle feather honors native AIDS victim
• Alcohol abuse
• Natives ask rights group to help trace children adopted by whites
• Food prices soaring out of sight in N.W.T.
  Government:
• NAN gets the go-ahead to look into restructuring
  Policing:
• RCMP may allow natives with braids
• Just like Canadians
• Walpole Islanders oppose transfer of OPP constable
  Editorials, letters:
• Shameful debt to native peoples
• To focus on Canada's native peoples
• Human rights begin at home
• No distinct aboriginal society
• Northern Canada's bleak statistics
• Serving people who move
• Meech Lake - letter to the editor
  The Arts:
• Letting the stone speak
• Theytus books: native material by natives
• Fiddler from Wiki wins O.A.C. award
• Open house at the new Indian Centre
• Legend: Why the loon cries in the morning
  Upcoming events:
• Neo Lithic: Stone carvings

The following folder includes

• Indian Act probe due in Metro - Toronto
• Restoration of lost status proving costly, Indians say - Toronto
• Fictional reservations in foothills - Toronto
• Artistic differences - Cardinal the architect - Toronto
• Reopen church school, Osnaburgh Indian parents urge
• Anger grows as officials unable to trace poison in Six Nations' water - Toronto 5
• Judge rules Micmac treaty no longer valid - Antigonish, NS
• Quebec Mohawks to be 'nation within a state' - Montreal
• Four anti-fur groups face tax threat - Toronto
• Other sources possible in water contamination, company official says - Elmira, Ont.
• Native group misses deadline for base plans - Sioux Lookout
• White Lake (Mobert) draft management plan - Marathon
• Sioux Lookout still waiting for decision over radar base
• Wider self-rule for natives foreseen in '90s - Toronto
• A human rights issue - letter to Toronto editor about Temagami
• Support the aboriginal languages bill - letter to Toronto editor
• Webequie natives waiting for minister to unlock resource - Thunder Bay
• Skills school project extended into 1990 still in doubt - Sioux Lookout
• Decaying vegetation, muck, main features of reserves - Thunder Bay commentary
• Nakina users develop fish plan
• Planes banned from landing on Big Trout Lake
• Indian band gets more control under new agreement~ Curve Lake
• Should whites write about minorities? - Toronto commentary
• Travelling play targets problem of illiteracy - Thunder Bay
• Disregarding natives - Letter to Toronto editor
• Mohawks divided over casinos - Akwesasne, NY
• Six :\at ions social counsellor terminated - Ohsweken
• Speller tells Cadieux any asbestos too much - Ohsweken
• Fire protection training - Moose Factory
• Mushkegowuk council's partners in change - Moose Factory
• Community based teacher training - Moose Factory