The following folder includes

• Policing, Justice:
• Special Series: Policing the Prairies:
• Natives, police forever colliding
• Natives wonder why "so many deaths"
• Police force watchdogs almost never bite
• Indian police get chance "to paddle own canoe"
• Shootout ended dream of RCMP career
• RCMP making headway in minority hiring
• Two judges for Marshall quit during investigation
• Project aims to join native, white ways in justice system
• Report on Women's Prison
  Economy:
• Assembly of First Nations challenge Wilson's Budget in Grief
• Group seeks investment in eastern Arctic
  The environment, protests:
  Innu:
• Training flights at Goose Bay must stop
• How some protections simply fail to protect
• Innu chief says Indians will resume flight protests
  Hagersville:
• 5 teens face mischief charges in 17-day Ontario tire blaze
• Tourists flock to Great Tire Fire scene
  Temagami:
• "You never know" on Temagami Peterson says
  Elmira:
• Ontario wants extensive, costly cleanup by Uniroval in Elmira
  James Bay:
• Natives make it there
  International:
• Adventures of a singular man
• Turning jungle into wasteland
  Education, Culture:
• Grade 3 pupils surprised by native traditions
• A tale of two schools
• Webequie school closed again
• Crazy Horse rides again
• Indians know concept of united nation
• Natives united by belief in Creator
  Editorials, letters:
• Birthrights and a mess of wattage
• Nothing to be ashamed of
• No simple solutions to native realities
  Upcoming events:
• Pow Wow Summer

This folder includes

• Six Nations can't get answers on water - Ohsweken
• Judge presented question after ordering lawyer jailed - Toronto
• Restless natives - Toronto commentary on native women and self-government
• Ontario moves to protect oldest forests from logging - Toronto
• Polluters get ultimatum - Toronto
• Injustice and racism in True North - Toronto book review
• Gambling feud puts Indians on brink of war - Akwesasne
• New police recruitment program hopes to attract visible minorities - Toronto
• Environment review may yet save Innu - Toronto
• Feds will decide format of Lake Helen elections - Thunder Bay
• Peace activists disrupt lunch at Empire Club - Toronto
• Most native wives abused by husbands, study shows -Toronto
• New book teaches language of Ojibwa - Winnipeg
• Natives urge end to plan to kill bison - Fort Smith, NWT
• Baffin Island tank leaks fuel - Toronto
• Tourist camp operator promotes Ojibway cultural studies - Atikokan
• Mohawk leaders fear deaths in gambling feud - Akwesasne
• Natives seek own justice system - Regina
• Casino profits siphoned from St. Regis reserve, gambling opponents say - Cornwall
• Job-equity law under fire as minuscule gains found for women and minorities - Toronto
• Arson destroys hopes for summer camp - Toronto
• Civil servant seeks to polish a tarnished image - Ottawa
• Ottawa, Indians sign talks pact - Vancouver
• Casino boosts security after shooting - Ottawa
• Inquiry winds up hearings on Bill C-31 - Thompson, Man.
• Convicts go back to roots with sweat lodge rites - Guelph
• Mohawks negotiate for native courts - Montreal
• Native group pushes for self-policing - Vancouver
• More about Temagami and court charges
• Interim recommendations made by Walpole Council to alleviate deficit
• Kahnawake bingo breaks Six Nations law: top chief - Montreal
• Legalized gambling step toward independence for The Pas band: chief - Montreal
• 3rd probe into death of Native - Ottawa
• Funding, not racism said at root of native justice problems - Sioux Lookout
• Indian-death probe becomes art exhibit - Winnipeg
• Ontario releases new policy for native self-govt - Sioux Lookout
• Natives have more disabilities: study - Sioux Lookout
• Family wants compensation for skiplane accident - Sioux Lookout
• Wawatay receives S30,000 grant - Sioux Lookout
• Frontier Air plane first in Canada - Thunder Bay
• Eagle's Nest building bargaining chip to speed school cleanup - letter to Ohsweken editor
• General hospital should move independently of amalgamation: administrator - Sioux Lookout

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• Entrench native right to self-determination, lawyer recommends - Vancouver
• Alcohol abuse emerges as link native probe - Stand Off, Alta.
• Native justice probe reviews Harper case - Winnipeg
• Prairie samurai (movie-making on reserve) - Toronto
• Native elders seeking new role in Catholic Church - Sudbury
• Indians report seeing sasquatch - Webequie
• Quebec Indians voice outrage over PCB plan - Quebec City
• Indians in the prison of cliche - Toronto book review
• Cree Summer had colorful journey back to L.A. - Toronto
• Innu vow to step up court fights - Montreal
• Wildlife bears graphic scars of chemical abuse - Toronto
• Ottawa robbing the North, Turner charges - Iqaluit, NWT
• Indian Act review to be unveiled at conference - Toronto
• Schools may be closed after tour inspection: Labour Canada - Toronto
• Our childrens' safety is not negotiable - Ohsweken editorial
• Time to reassess the Indian Act - Ohsweken editorial
• Children are nightmarish evidence of alcohol abuse by native mothers - Toronto
• Trapper persuades MNR to postpone spraying - Sioux Lookout
• Drop court battle and deal with equity, CBC urged - Toronto
• More about sasquatch sighting
• Winnipeg police give up fight against Indian probe
• Canadian fishing company pays US Indians' claim - Sault Ste. Marie
• Big Ben gets hero's welcome at Bear Island - North Bay
• Overfishing by non-status Indians feared - Toronto
• Nova Scotia negotiating hunting with Micmac Indians - Sydney, NS
• Indians lose bingo battle - Regina
• Ontario Metis endorse 'using force' - Sault Ste. Marie
• Canadians to learn what Indian self-govt. means in next Constitutional talks - Nautley, BC
• Abolish native hunting rights - Winnipeg commentary
• NWO natives not committed to defence .pact - Sioux Lookout
• Wild rice pool proves successful for growers - Kenora
• Oakville man named to Indian affairs post
• Indian ecumenical movement growing - Halifax
• Wawatay and cultural centre will produce native-language children's TV programs - Sioux Lookout

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• Innu take flight fight to court in St. John's, Nfld.
• Native footwear exhibit - Toronto
• 2nd vote set in Chippewa land claim - Sarnia
• Native justice system rejected by Ian Scott - Ottawa
• Native probe hears lawyers - Winnipeg
• Outdoor murals save community from doldrums - Chemainus, B.C.
• Police arrest two more in logging protest - Temagami
• Seven arrested in raid on reserve bingo hall - Kanesatake, Que.
• Minorities go toe to toe with majority - Toronto
• Police acted like savages, Mohawks say after raid - St-Jerome, Que.
• War Party battles triteness - Toronto movie review
• Haida canoe's trip up the Seine, native artist's fantasy comes true - Paris
• Metro police native liaison - Toronto
• 'Mistakes' in probe of shooting, chief says - Winnipeg
• More about Temagami
• More about Innu
• Six Nations children still out of school - Toronto
• More about Temagami
• Innu demonstration in Toronto
• Mora about Sarnia Chippewa vote
• More jobs for natives - Winnipeg
• Hiring quotas for native people - Winnipeg
• School teaches natives pride in culture - Toronto
• More about uncovering old Indian graves in NW Ont.
• Cop's letter gross insult - letter to Winnipeg editor
• Clouds of war obscured Indians' plight - Calgary
• More about Temagami
• More about Six Nations schools
• Actress praises Beachcombers for improving natives' image - Gibson, B.C.
• Innu picket embassy over NATO flights - Ottawa
• Flaws in law stack odds against native people - Sudbury commentary
• Naming Wright to post pleases Indian leaders - Saskatoon
• Education centre imperative - Sioux Lookout
• No threat from environmentalists - letter to North Bay editor
• Band threatens reserve blockade·- Whitedog reserve
• More about Six Nations schools
• Inquiry ought to proceed despite anguish for police - Saskatoon editorial
• Former Sault resident entrusted with improving native economics - Sault Ste. Marie
• Windigo and Bond agreement is as good as gold - Sioux Lookout
• Tikinagan's executive director calls it quits - Sioux Lookout
• Kashechewan and Albany advised to boil drinking water
• Removal of chairman sought - Moose Factory
• New NWT commissioner popular - Inuvik
• Mohawks fight to preserve schools - Winnipeg

The following folder includes

• Mohawk Chiefs call reserve referendum
• Indians' diabetes linked to new lifestyle
• Time to recognize native rights - letter
• $100 gold coin is a cruel joke - letter
• A splendid introduction to Coyote and his world
• Queen's Park cracks down on tire dumps
• No one knows why pair died in "white culture"
• Native, police tell of differences - Saskatoon
• Natives attack Tories over devastating cuts
• Canada's bitter legacy of injustice - editorial
• Why native groups alarmed by Meech - editorial
• Nato choice won't end fight - Innu say
• Liberals say that 9 seats should be for natives
• Author likes hunters' way of life
• Tire fire offers environmental lesson - letter
• Mohawk factions seek end to violence - Cornwall
• Museums giving up native treasures - but slowly
• Ojibwa, Ottawa agree to negotiate self-government
• Public service "downsizing" largely illusory
• Chiefs eye lawsuit over budget cuts - Manitoba
• The issues of native wife abuse - commentary
• NAN gets the go-ahead to look into restructuring
• A.I.A.I. reeling after 65% budget cut
• Students taught Anishinaabe traditions - Winnipeg

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• Indians suffer ill treatment, 35% tell poll - Toronto
• Province must help natives, NOP insists - Toronto
• Ottawa's S1.4 billion restraint package - Toronto
• Rules issued for talks on native self-govt. - Toronto
• Ontario willing to negotiate native self-rule - Toronto
• Munro trial may not start until '91 - Ottawa
• Ojibwa model finds native look may lead to success in Paris - Toronto
• Civil service urged to hire low-paid groups - Toronto
• More than one way to grow a new forest - Thunder Bay
• Lakehead university president named fund administrator
• Lubicon braced for RCMP action - Calgary
• Passion of the Metis people remembered - Edmonton
• Many trials, tribulations in Munro's life - Toronto commentary
• Lake Helen band office closed in 'coup' attempt - Thunder Bay
• Mediation in Little Jackfish hydro project - Thunder Bay
• Temagami braces for next round in road war - Toronto
• Stalled negotiations with Ottawa provoke more Lubicon threats - Edmonton
• Decision Feb. 28 in night hunting case - Thunder Bay
• Micmac agreement unfair, unsafe - Halifax commentary
• Pulling images out of the bear - Vancouver art review
• Suzuki meets with native people - Sarnia
• Race relations workshop held - Wallaceburg
• Two area native groups receive grants - Sioux Lookout
• It's another fine mess - Brantford editorial about Six Nations education
• Study of programs may bring education changes - Sioux Lookout
• Province urged to follow multi-use Crown land policy - Sudbury
• Expansion of federal building - Sioux Lookout
• Dispute sparked by removal of principal - London

Folder includes:
Foundation offers loans for women's business -Toronto

• Campaign of civil disobedience has won little action from Ottawa
• Huron mission thrives today -Midland, Ont.
• Fire officials on standby for evacuation of reserve Deer Lake, Ont.
• Sarcee sacred bundle returned by museum -Hull
• UN rights body to investigate Canada's treaties with natives -Toronto
• Province can start Temagami road work -Toronto
• Crawford's still waters run deep in history (reconstructed Indian village) -Campbellville, Ont.
• Heritage of myth and legend -Toronto book review
• More about UN rights agency probe
• Erasmus wins second term as Dene president -Inuvik, NWT
• Court won't hear llth-houi:-bid to block Temagami logging road~ Toronto
• Lubicon chief to meet Getty on July 24 -Edmonton
• Indian land dispute given to committee -Calgary
• Snapshots of native community life -Toronto editorial
• Pour des peccadilles -lettre au redacteur -Montreal
• Women the losers as federal jobs cut -Ottawa
• $4.6 million for six N. Ont. schools -Thunder Bay
• Indians distrusted police too much to give evidence, probe told -Lethbridge, Alta.
• Thanks for fire evacuation assistance -letter to Geraldton-Longlac editor
• Ottawa obliged to pay natives' hospital costs letter to Toronto editor
• Confrontations feared at Whitefish Island 'unless Ottawa acts' -Sault St. Marie
• Path to violence -letter to North Bay editor
• Natives frustrated by cutbacks -Thunder Bay editorial
• A dubious defense pact for natives -Toronto commentary
• Indians' lawyer dumped after lengthy fight -London, Ont.
• Gap between American and Canadian news grows -letter to Ottawa editor
• Canada Customs staff want RCMP protection -Cornwall
• Woman convicted of assaulting police -Calgary
• McKnight, Sarcee chief to set up dispute committee Red Deer Lake, Alta.
• Chief ready to talk -Calgary
• Six Nations Indians make claim for riverbed -Toronto
• Indian blockades, occupations are becoming 'fact of life' -Bell -Sault Ste. Marie
• Who gave· the natives the right to mistreat others? letter to Sault Ste. Marie editor
• Cabinet: From A to F -Toronto
• Harry Laforme appointed Indian commissioner -Ottawa
• Few Indians apply for airlines work -Vancouver
• Post-secondary funding for Natives -Kenora commentary
• Events a reminder of long native presence -letter to Sault Ste. Marie editor
• Big Grassy' s new constable -Rainy River
• Natives lost land, way of life -letter to Sault Ste. Marie editor
• Pays Plat supports concerned citizens -letter to Terrace Bay/Schreiber editor
• Native students making the grade -Sioux Lookout
• New protests against genocide of a native people Atlantic regional commentary

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• 11 men jailed, fined for illegal sale of trout - Wiarton
• Bingo hall opening draws demonstrators - Montreal
• History of discrimination - letter to Toronto editor
• Native woman to be named ombudsman - Toronto
• N.S., Micmac groups sign pact on hunting - Halifax
• Native people deride discovery of America - Toronto
• Natives ask court to stop low jet flights - Yellowknife
• Teachers won't end boycott at New Credit - Toronto
• Iroquois longhouse, artifacts found in dig at Barrie site
• Columbus introduced slave trade - Toronto
• Temagami trees at risk, study finds - Toronto
• Innu struggle to survive as a distinct nation - Toronto
• Innu seek U.K. help to ban jets - London
• Armed guards protect Cornwall Island border post
• Obituary - John- Wesley Beaver - Toronto
• Indians renew blockade - Maniwaki, Que.
• Ojibwa bands 'ripped off' historian says - Walkerton
• More about Temagami
• A noble dissent - Toronto editorial about Marshall case
• Pediatrician sees trauma among Labrador children - Halifax
• Soup kitchens try to ease hunger for Regina's children
• Letters to editors about Labrador Innu
• Calgary native column lauded
• Booze at root of problem - letter to Calgary editor
• Suicide concern - Thunder Bay
• Defence pact not a priority - Thunder Bay
• More about Six Nations and New Credit schools
• Native justice system a matter of time - Sioux Lookout
• Chiefs call for aboriginal health authority - Thunder Bay
• Manitoba hunters may be charged - Fort Severn
• Two bands tell task force of reserve conditions - Sioux Lookout
• Story on alcohol and native people - Sioux Lookout
• Diesel fuel spilled near Fort Albany
• New goal for Lakehead University - letter to Sioux Lookout editor
• Native nurses program falling between cracks - Thunder Bay
• Money for education center still being sought - Sioux Lookout
• Appointment of members to Nishnawbe-Aski legal service corporation - Thunder Bay
• Solar power brightens northern Ont. village - Toronto
• $50,000 grant to skills group - Elliot Lake
• Merit isn't necessarily meritorious - Ottawa commentary
• How we were - Ottawa review about Poundmaker book

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OKA DISPUTE:

• Peaceful end to Oka standoff possible
• Mood turning ugly among residents
• Police ban Canadian flag at barricade
• Talks on blockade to resume
• Indians mocked by mob
• Clerics join talks
• Blockade may be lifted at bridge to Montreal
• Teetering on edge of war
• Oka - Canadian Press
• Metro women giving Mohawks food from rained-out festival
• Natives join black protest at museum
• Anti-racism demo snarls traffic
• Ottawa asked to resolve standoff
• Violence not rising, natives say
• Quebec sends SOS
• Food short in "police state"
• Days of rage
• Band opens food bank in face of blockade
• Standoff at Oka
• Mayor says police needed for "peace"
• Mohawks demand immunity in talks
• "Sure we're scared," Warriors say
• Golf course conflict linked to land grant 270 years ago
• Police block food supply to Indians
• Mulroney must send an envoy, national chief says
• Talks fail to break siege
• The road to Oka
• Mohawks set for long stalemate
• Officials not saying whose bullet hit officer
• Minister, Mohawks negotiate
• Standoff on rise between authorities, Indians
• Dispute at Oka dates to land grant by king of France
• Residents, reporters restricted
• Indians call attack reprisal for Meech
• Armed Mohawks, police in standoff
• Violence rooted in centuries of dispute
• Golfing mayor blamed in fight
• Cop's death a mystery
• Both sides claim land belongs to them
• Death and Defiance
• Tiny town torn as confrontation takes tragic turn
• Violence may rise, chief tells Ottawa
• Mohawks vow to blow bridge if any natives hurt by police
• Police guns turned on us journalist says
• Bourassa furious with "revolting" violence
• Ottawa regrets failure of mediation attempt
• Mediator faults Oka council
• Police officer dies in Mohawk battle
• Talks begin with Mohawks as barricade tensions grow
  AKWESASNE:
• Mohawks may get visit by Mandela, official says
• Mohawk Nation Chiefs greet Mandela
• Confederacy peace plan for Akwesasne falls on deaf ears
• Mohawk jailed for 10 months by U.S. court
• Cornwall totals costs of reserve evacuation
• Mohawks stop Governor's police and gambling bills
• Tarbell and Smoke sworn in as Chief, Sub-Chief
  NATIVE RIGHTS, LAND CLAIMS:
• Haida demonstrators put pressure on holdout fishing outfit
• B.C. Indians join dispute over salmon fishing rights
• B.C. groups raising flak over U. S. bomber flights
• Natives blockade road in Ontario
• Heron Bay, Canada Post settle dispute
• Bitter battle looms
• James Bay 2
• Native power confronts Hydro-Quebec
• Algonquin Indians federal government strike deal over island
• $32M centre for island
• Ontario Hydro pays Kash a $40,700 land use settlement
• Agreement could bring Webequie closer to controlling "homeland"
• Land claims high on Roote's priority list
• U.S. Indians flex muscles in making treaty claims
• Aborigine group declares own government
• Aborigines out in cold
  NATIVE JUSTICE:
• Thorny questions face judicial council
• Lawyer decries judges' "insensitivity to injustice"
• Judges' lawyer leaves probe of Marshall case
• Supreme Court smiled on women, natives
• B.C. Indians question charges laid against two tribal constables
• Indian chief urges race-crime stats
• Indian inmates charge Bowden prison staff with discrimination
  MEECH LAKE AFTERMATH:
• Meech victory strengthens Native voice
• Indians resisting federal overture
• McLaughlin calls for constitutional committee
• Natives "on high moral ground" for stand against Meech, says Harper
  BUSINESS:
• Native-first policies okay, rights body rules
• Sunday shopping having local impact
• Inuk village mayor sees women as answer to economic future
• Six Nations Golfers will soon be puttin' with the best of 'em
• Native media rocked by funding cuts
  SOCIAL ISSUES:
• Confusion stems from Housing Program
• Reaching out to native peoples
• Treasured gift
• Natives seek own agency for children
  EDITORIALS, COMMENTARY, LETTERS:
• Folly and death at the Oka barricade
• Gun madness
• The violence at Oka
• Put Oka golf course plan on hold
• Akwesasne Indian Times Editorial
• Soveignty and Common Sense Part II
• Warrior's Words call for execution
• The prophet Elijah judges Canada
• His ordeal is not yet over
• Gun butt diplomacy not enough for natives
• Indians deserve fairness
• Golf war an act of revenge?
• There's still time to get those Innu
• Myths central to country's nationhood
• A myth remains: a nation of losers
• The rigid limits of English
• Here's to one courageous Manitoban
• Playing the name game
• Criminal to increase low-level training flights
• Resentment no stranger for natives
• "Lawbreaking coward"
  CULTURE, HISTORY, ART:
• How French fur trade affected the Indians
• Iroquois villages discovered on Highway 403 extension
• Ancient pot going on display
• Ojibwa students to observe East Coast lifestyle
• Navajo culture at heart of novel
• "Gossip" presents women's view of North
• Inuit artist draws to sell

The following folder includes

• Native band claims part of Sauble Beach, thanks to century-old error - Toronto
• Taxation and animal rights groups - letter to To. editor
• 35 charged after hunting probe - Toronto
• Distinct society, indistinct accord - Toronto editorial
• Indians, Ottawa sign pact - Kispiox, BC
• Gambling sparks reserve shootout - Cornwall
• 'You have bestowed on Mother Earth grief' - Toronto commentary
• Task force to look at why natives jailed - Edmonton
• Territorial judge regrets rape remark - Yellowknife
• Arson suspected in Indian society fire - Toronto
• Nomadic natives denied status inquiry told - Toronto
• In compassion, BC native village finds justice for all - Toronto
• Ojibway subjected to 'ongoing insults,' federal report says - Regina
• Scientists assail study on Labrador base - Ottawa
• Treaty denial smacks of racism - Fredericton commentary
• More about Sauble Beach claim
• Police switching to semi-automatics on native reserve - Cornwall
• Quebec to probe woman's death in Hull - Ottawa
• Help natives save their languages - letter to Ottawa editor
• Natives win gambling rights - Winnipeg
• Natives 'frustrated' by red tape - Toronto
• AFN plans own way of observing Columbus event - Montreal
• Reopen church school Osnaburgh parents urge - Toronto
• No male artists need apply - Toronto commentary
• Indian Act changes causing rifts, native inquiry told - Toronto
• Backs aboriginal language foundation - letter to Montreal editor
• Self-determination a must for natives - Thunder Bay commentary
• Ont. minister discusses logging, hunting, native - affairs - Thunder Bay
• Threat to destroy Six Nations schools - Ohsweken
• Monthly paper planned for Six Nations - Ohsweken
• Native issues embarrassing - Hamilton editorial
• New thinking needed on native policy - Montreal editorial
• After called racist, judge to leave North - Dryden
• Justice in Kahnawake - Montreal editorial
• Six Nations school counsellor fired for speaking out - Brantford
• Micmac treaty of 1752 now invalid: judge - Antigonish, NS
• Natives vow to oust polluters at Six Nations - Toronto
• Aspiring commercial pilot looks north - Pays Plat
• Quebec eyes native-run justice system - Montreal
• Education center deal back to square one? - Sioux Lookout
• Real experiences sought by tourists - Sudbury
• Has the issue already been settled'? - Sudbury commentary
• Six Nations and New Credit school boycott - Letter to Ohsweken editor

The following folder includes

Meech Lake, Land Claims:

• Natives from Ontario and Quebec will remain united
• Native shares in Canada
  The environment, protests:
  Severn River:
• People say "no" to damming of Severn River
  Toxic waste:
• Pollution of Indian lands ignored, inquiry told
• Unprincipled firms try to turn reserves into toxic waste dumps, natives say
• We need help with toxic dumps Mohawk chief told
• Natives seek Quebec inquiry into effects of low-level flights
• Environmental assessment conducted to settle the Shoal Lake controversy
  Temagami:
• Trail plan unveiled by wilderness society
• Mock jail cell built to protest Temagami
• Judge imposes heavy fines on Temagami demonstrators
  Akwesasne:
• Four men held in police probe of reserve killing
• Four held in Mohawk shooting death
• Mohawks detained
• Akwesasne wounds won't heal soon
• Guns, drugs are seized on reserve
• "White-backed" chiefs must go, Mohawk Warriors Society says
• Pro-gambling Mohawks to meet in effort to halt "occupation"
• Mohawks meet in Kahnawake
• Counselling for school teachers

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• Bruised (by alcohol) before birth - Toronto
• Ben Johnson visits Bear Island - North Bay
• Indians in ancestral home left without . cash, housing - Toronto
• Group concerned natives used to justify fashion fur industry - Toronto
• Meech Lake called threat to minorities - Fredericton
• Native arts minus the canoes - Calgary
• Alcohol abuse on Alberta's Indian reserve - Standoff
• Man convicted in Osborne murder refuses to testify The Pas, Man.
• Ottawa's conjuring trick to create new Indians - Montreal commentary
• Chief says other native deaths in The Pas area sloppily handled
• Native head warns of likely violence - Toronto
• More about new band and Lubicon Indians - Edmonton
• Protests threatened in bid for status rights - Toronto
• More about Osborne hearings
• Complaints no surprise, doctor says - Stand Off, Alta.
• Bands reject proposal for power plants - Muskrat Dam
• More about demand of non-status Indians for rights
• Residents vote in support of gambling - Hogansburg, N.Y.
• More about Osborne hearings
• Arson charge - Whitedog
• More about Osborne hearings
• Non-natives warned to stay away from hall - Montreal
• Aboriginal conference finishes in Moose Factory
• More women, minorities joining police, study says - Toronto
• Natives seek development freeze pending land claim ruling - Thunder Bay
• Blocking progress - North Bay editorial about Temagami
• Ominayak off to Geneva to appeal to UN group - Edmonton
• Admit we're entitled to reserves, band says - Vancouver
• Race relations group reports progress - Sioux Lookout
• Hospital board wants to trim size - Kenora
• Chief labels health report superficial - Red Lake
• Shibogama receives grant - Sioux Lookout
• More about Moose Factory aboriginal conference
• Trivializing native issues - Sault Ste. Marie editorial
• Blind River councillors request new govt't study on annexation - Sault Ste. Marie
• The Native tradition - North Bay editorial
• Organization to return to negotiating table on hunting rights - Eskasoni, N.S.

The following folder includes

• Native leaders disappointed by Chretien
• Natives slam Chretien's performance
• It's time to rectify ill-treatment, letter
• Innu fighting back on challenges
• RC priest local hero to natives
• An uneven, bittersweet tale, theatre review
• Pocahontas' unique view, theatre - review
• Crazy Boy makes a lot of sense, theatre review 7
• Divided Loyalties uncovers roots of 'old Indian feeling'
• Angry demonstrators clash at Bloor St. fur rallies
• Arctic pitch, photo
• Sanctity of legends, letter
• Myths and reality of language and nationhood
• Racism rediscovered, letter
• Canadian content that's alive with both intensity and truth
• A Brant new story
• Battle over language spreads to North
• Tory ."JP denies racist slurs but his accuser has a witness
• Train doctors in North: NDP
• Bison herd in national park, letter
• N.S. official may lose job for handling of Marshall
• Security probe irks native leader
• Pocahontas relives sting of stereotyping
• Quiet town's way of life poisoned
• End seal hunt ban, Chretien says
• Judge touts native-run court idea
• Tory MP accused of anti-native slurs
• Conservative MP insulted Indians at meeting, native conductor says
• Air around plant to be tested
• Cp where he belongs
• Play gives new life to Ojibway myths
• Ontario and five Indian bands reach historic land claim deal
• Canadian fur industry bites back
• Indians, province strike first deal in land claim case
• Uniroyal protests closing
• Nova Scotia finally apologizes to Marshall
• Canadian TV epic sparks its own war
• 'Racist' Indian Act seems headed for the trash
• Clash of Innu, court halts the trial
• Queen is greeted by protests
• Brazil to probe filming of Yanomami
• Ottawa to spend S8,800 on parkas for visitors
• Cards on the table, editorial
• Northerners call for improvement to health care
• Native conference
• No misconduct found in CSIS native probe
• Native leader says he has pledge from Ottawa over Meech concerns
• Ottawa vows to consult natives on Meech
• Safety of Elmira water supply questioned
• Fears over asbestos in schools growing
• Kahnawake Warriors block transfer of prisoner
• Chiefs' fight freezes Mohawk bank account
• A long litany of injustice, book review

This following folder includes

• Indians seek restitution for U.S. land - Toronto
• More about Manitoba native justice enquiry
• More about Akwesasne gambling
• Natives angered over bishop's stand on married priests - Espanola
• Aboriginal speakers to serve on juries - Yellowknife
• Manitoulin's quiet charm - Manitoulin Island
• Ottawa backs tribe in battle with· U.S. over treaty claim - Toronto
• School attendance and maintenance - Six Nations
• Loggers back on job despite Indian blockade - Maniwaki, Que.
• Manitoba court backs Indian hunting rights - Winnipeg
• Study approved only days before reserve school damaged by fire - Grassy Narrows
• More about Six Nations schools
• New band complicates Lubicon deal - Cadotte Lake, Alta.
• Adoption ceremony used to illustrate unwritten native law - Winnipeg
• Cree band delighted to sign pact, aid plan - Montreal
• Inuit fear Ottawa letting them down after PCBs found in their diet - Broughton Island, NWT
• 'Romantic' vision not good for North - Thunder Bay editorial
• More about Akwesasne gambling and policing
  -More about Tobermory demonstration for land claim
• Native cultures speak 53 languages - London, Ont.
• PCBs discovered in breast milk on St. Regis reserve
• Natives need their own justice system - letter to Winnipeg editor
• It's back to school - Walpole Island
• Community education proclamation - Walpole Island
• Wild rice industry not getting opportunity - Ignace
• Bands want Severn River dam-free - Cochrane
• Bands entitled to dam info: MNR - Sioux Lookout
• John Kim Bell gets Canadian business award - Toronto
• Schools decision needed - Ohsweken editorial
• Responsible for ourselves - letter to Ohsweken editor
• Navajos issue own car license plate - Ohsweken
• Heavy hitters against LRT - Ohsweken
• Native support for Six Nations DIA LRT BCR - Orillia
• Bad bets on reserve - Calgary editorial
• Kenora council supports call to review wild rice moratorium
• More about Grassy Narrows school fire
• Indian bands to discuss land claim - Sudbury
• MP hosts public hearing on problems - Dryden
• Lac Seul natives to be training as firefighters - Sioux Lookout
• Tribal council receives S100,000 grant - Sioux Lookout
• Funding for band housing cancelled by CMHC - Armstrong
• Writings distort aboriginal people - Saskatoon
• UNSI approves fishing agreement - Eskasoni, NS
• Economic development scholarships for natives
• Bringing back the soap box - Sault Ste. Marie commentary
• "Discussions" on rights, land claims suspended by OMAA - Sault Ste. Marie

The following folder includes

MEECH LAKE:

• Canadian Press: Meech Lake
• Women and natives excluded in deal, groups say
• Here's what the agreement means
• Natives enlist support from Manitoba, Newfoundland
• Distinct society
• Ottawa tables plan to save Meech
• Canadian Press: Manitoba's Indians decline invite
• Canadian Press: Territorial leaders
• Indians stand to lose treaty rights in breakup
• Anawak says Meech committee repeating themselves
  TRAGIC DEATH:
• A tragic death puts Meech in perspective
• Train accident victim lived a desperate life
  AKWESASNE:
• Mohawk leaders request $14 Min federal aid to assist recovery
• Violence feared as bingo hall reopens on Mohawk reserve
• Federal Government reconfirms Mohawk Council's authority
• Controversy surrounds Tribal Election Caucus
  THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTESTS:
• Little Jackfish opposed despite $183,500 study
• Hydro, Indian band co-operate on study
• Temagami protesters dragged from legislature
• Forest flashback
• Haida move to co-manage sacred rainforest with feds
  EDUCATION:
• Webequie school's closure costs students their year
• Canadian Press: Webequie school closure
• Halifax to host 20 Interlake students
• Minister considers student exchange program "a luxury"
• Hereditary chief earns doctorate from UBC
• Single training facility weighed at S. Lookout
• Are you Native and graduating from high school?
  ECONOMY:
• $4.3 million for roads
• Air Creebec plans Toronto-Val d'Or run
  POLICING, JUSTICE:
• Police seeking Indian recruits
• Police forces reach out for minority recruits
• Natives to be upgraded
• Listen to us to win respect, elders say
• Police reform: Under the Gun
• Marshall caught in nasty debate over judges
• Marshall commission report is inaccurate
• Canadian Press: Minnie Sutherland case
• Canadian Press: Public inquiry of N.W.T. judge
  MEDIA, GOVERNMENT:
• Media biased, natives say
• Native group denounces "holiday junket" workshop for senior civil servants
• Canadian Press: Natives refuse to attend workshop
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Gone fishing
• High court ruling may affect many
• Centre staff was great help
• Wild rice, on its merits
• "Natural wildlife managers"
• The Warrior logo has been worn proudly
• It takes two to tango
• Residential schools not all bad
• Canada's underused native workforce
• Racial tension: time for bold steps
  HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE:
• The brutal execution that tore Canada apart
• Blackfeet determined to reclaim artifacts
• U.S. natives stake claim to artifacts sold to Alberta
• Cuomo proposes tough rules on Indian relics
• An enigmatic imposter
• Festival of new native plays raises profile of rising talent
• Concern is growing over New Age cult
  UPCOMING EVENTS:
• Aboriginal People's Human Rights and Race
• Relations Conference
• Res '90: Economic Development Conference
• Grand River Pow Wow
• Six Nations Native Pageant

Folder contains:

• $5 bills on treaty day reaffirm treaty rights Glenevis, Alta.
• Explosion could help Sarcee cause -Calgary
• More about the Osborne slaying in N. Manitoba
• BC Indians issue warning over logging roads -Vancouver
• Cree band ends Quebec road blockade -Chibougamau
• Nine Indian bands sign pact for mutual defence -Quebec
• Innu and Inuit different -letter to Toronto editor
• Task force to examine high number of natives in jails Edmonton
• Native people losing supporters in Quebec -letter to Toronto editor
• Innu struggle in Labrador is for justice -letter to Toronto editor
• Inca treasures in Montreal exhibition -Toronto
• Sarcee Indians agree to talks with minister -Calgary Indian commissioner -Toronto
• Print fosters stereotype of natives, artist says -Calgary
• Cadieux angers natives again despite attempt to mend fences -Quebec City
• TV movie being made about Joseph Brant -Toronto
• Natives given more control in operating legal services Toronto
• Dead Blood's alcohol level found to exceed legal limit Lethbridge, Alta.
• Wanted: native Canadians who want to learn to write Penticton, BC
• NS law school launches program to encourage native, black students -Halifax
• Native cultures on the brink -letter to Toronto editor
• Land transfer for Chapleau Cree -Toronto
• More about Alberta and Quebec native blockades
• More about Innu protests over low flights -Toronto
• Far North is latest battleground in Canadian airlines' war -Yellowknife
• Missing boy is found thin, dirty -Winnipeg
• To their health -Thunder Bay editorial
• Pharmacist fined for refusing a native rubbing alcohol -Edmonton
• More about missing boy in Winnipeg
• Trappers help museum focus on native role in region's past -Ottawa
• More about Sarcee protest over military clean-up
• The white man's game -treaties, etc. -Toronto
• Sheriff admits silence on killing -The Pas, Man.
• Native art: Should it be shown in museum or gallery? Ottawa
• Rickets found widespread in native reserve -Halifax
• $2.4 M pact signed -Big Island First Nation -Morson
• Kahn-Tineta Horn: Her '60s zeal for justice undimmed Ottawa
• Innu leaders willing to talk -letter to St. John's, Nfld. editor
• Native alliance formed -Sioux Lookout
• Reserve 58 opens new housing -Geraldton-Longlac
• Stangecoming band celebrates new reserve -Fort Frances
• Native childcare agency almost 50 percent over budget
• Winnipeg Electricity fix delayed -Fort Hope, Ont.
• Moving from reserve to city terrifying -Toronto
• Natives said ready for confrontation over rights Moraviantown, Ont.
• Walpole Island agriculture steps forward Unified health care is coming -Timmins
• Temagami band declines invitation -North Bay
• CESO native program celebrates 20 years -Toronto

The following folder includes

Land claims:

• Yukon land claim
  Akwesasne:
• Reserve leaders gamble on plan to restore peace
• Mohawk activist on trial
• Roadblock
• Wires to radio station cut
• Mohawks oust head chief
  Health care, the environment:
• Health care for Canada's natives
• Eagles Nest officially opens
• Protesting - Six Nations school conditions
• Ohsweken water plant possible culprit?
• The fears that asbestos can provoke - editorial
• Ottawa, Alberta band agree in principle on land claim
• Asbestos: the fears and facts
  Human rights:
• Inuit seeking apology for forced move
• Rights body assails native treatment
• Racism alert nothing new, natives say
• Floating demonstration
• Hearings set on redress for Marshall
• Police charge second Catholic cleric
• Visiting native kids help bury stereotypes
  Native media:
• Clark urged to champion native media
• Native media get reprieve on budget
• Communications - House of Commons debates
  Protests:
• Logging foes vow final fight on Temagami
• Half-canoe, half-kayak a symbol for protest
• Cree protest James Bay
  Protests (contd.):
• Referendum dates set for two weeks in April
• Eight bands form coalition to fight dams
• Mohawks call PCB cleanup plan first step
  Economy:
• $2.5 million CAEDS Capital Corp. announced
  AFA, Self-government:
• Funding policy 'dangerous'
• Is it self-govt when decisions still rely on feds
• Many jurisdictional aspects could bog down self-govt talks
  Editorials, letters:
• Canada's .multicultural dream rapidly fading
• Pot's empty for largest native volunteer program
• Insensitive to natives
• Diabetes among Indians
  The Arts:
• The Shaman's Return
• Other stories, other voices
• McMichael Art Gallery celebrate 25th anniversary
• Metis actress fights to find truth in roles
• Cultural extinction and renewal
  Upcoming events:
• Dance performance
• 2nd Annual Great Lakes Pow Wow
• Earth Spirit Festival

The following folder includes

• Tribal tribulations
• 120,000 tins of juice recalled
• Natives paddle to protest hydro's plans
• Decision expected soon on armed force's offer to help battle tire fire
• Tire inferno neighbors vent anger at officials
• Tire King owner says ministry is to blame
• McMaster conference targets bigotry, sexism in Canada
• 600 evacuees told tires will burn for at least a month
• Respect for native stories, letter
• Mural was done by Ojibwa artist, letter
• Metis eye courts to defend trapping
• Experts still in dark over effect of blaze on environment and health
• Ottawa team to assess risks to health
• A towering achievement, photograph
• Use tires as fuel for kilns, firm says
• Fire fighters experiment with alternative ways to deal with blaze
• Ottawa sends team to tire fire to check health risk fears
• Proud Cree nation deserves much more than "funny" stories, comment
• Use of portable showers considered for two towns
• Spending cuts? Start at the top, comment
• Marshall case bureaucrat resigns
• MPs warned about computer virus
• Weather grounds water bombers slowing battle against tire blaze
• How the tires are burning, diagram
• Everybody 's hiding behind tire fire, letter
• Burning tire dump is major disaster, waste experts say
• The fallout from burning tires, editorial
• Lill examines culture shock with subtlety and sensitivity, theatre review
• Dikes hold back oil flowing from blazing tires
• Massive seepage of oil feared ·from burning mountain of tires
• Elmira factory made 'deadly' Agent Orange
• Report proposes native commission to uproot sexual abuse
• Protest targets NATO flights over Labrador
• Government accused of fraud in findings on low-level flights
• 2,000 advised to leave as burning tires emit cloud of toxic smoke
• Federal restraints feared on payments for health, education
• Federal study of low-level flying ignores social costs, groups claim
• Water bombers help fight fire
• Reconciling cultural differences
• Three-kilometre radius evacuated as millions of tires burn at depot
• Forest panel chairman quits Ontario hearings
• Bingo crackdown to aid charities
• Absorbing history lesson
• Divided they fall
• Waiting for a tragedy
• Akwesasne waste site renews tensions
• Anti-fur protesters hurt native livelihood
• Native women's writing poignant, personal
• Walpole withdraws from A.I.A.I.
• Native women's safehouse urged
• Native hockey a lure for Leach
• Consulting firm mum on progress into
• Ohsweken's water problem
• Water crisis spreading communities along Grand Scientists agree any exposure poses risk

The following folder includes

MEECH LAKE:

• Please see News Clippings, Edition 90-26.1 for special coverage of Meech Lake.
  SELF-GOVERNMENT, LAND CLAIMS
• Native self-rule forging ahead
• Self-government
• Ottawa, native chiefs to sign deal on self-government negotiations
• Violence feared after talks collapse
• Crees offered millions to tear up agreement
  BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:
• Business risks urged to reduce jobless rate
• Economic talks set
• RES '90 conference
• Development fund gives Native businesses a chance to get off the ground
• Future's Committee eyeing bank trainee program
• GST may benefit status Indians
• No jobs now, no jobs likely as baby boom hits Arctic
  HEALTH:
• Improvement noted in health of natives
• Native's health still worse than average
• TB toll for Indians 100 times higher
• Group home opens for ex-psychiatric native patients
  ABORIGINAL RIGHTS:
• Aboriginal people still lack basic human rights
• Commons Debates: Aboriginal rights
• Indian fishery limit sought
  THE ENVIRONMENT:
• Fort Severn council tells residents not to drink dirty water
• The Green Plan
• B.C. tribe fears extinction near
  CUTBACKS:
• Inuit Superman dealt blow by budget cuts
• PEN protests native cuts
  EDUCATION:
• Logos get the axe
• Webequie school stays closed, children leave year incomplete
• Students get taste of working world through friendship centre program
• Students decide to appeal trespassing convictions
• 20 Mohawk teens finish survival school
  POLICING, JUSTICE:
• Draft report due out in July
• Opposition to native police wearing braids
• Rape remark has hurt judge, inquiry told
• Local court system curbs Island Lake youth crime
• Native policing a difficult task, but has rewards
• Mountie denies charges of misconduct
• Natives treated as "second rate", committee told
  AKWESASNE:
• Gambling pact sought for Akwesasne reserve
• Negotiations take place to legalize gambling
• L'Etat de New York negocie la legalisation des casinos d'Akwesasne
  POLITICS:
• Today's Man
• Natives win status in party
  INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:
• Some Indians will boycott royal visit
• Tutu to visit Osnaburgh
• Nicaragua Indians hand over weapons
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Self-sufficiency is goal of native business group
• Include aboriginals among founding people
• Let all tenants pay 25 percent of income
• Shocking charges
• Insult to Inuit artists
• Native exemption from fish, game law is justified
  HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Another successful elders and youth gathering
• An evening with Muskrat Dam elder Juliet Duncan
• New respect emerges between church, natives
• Taiwanese tribal people visit Six Nations
• Minority artists assail the mainstream
• Bear Island spirits raised in auction
• Native art happens at SAW
• "Rocky" humor riles art groups
• Angry artists blast threat
• Museum officials foil attempt to remove artifact
• Museum, natives urged to negotiate
• Archeologists unlock mystery of Indian site
• Cultures clash over native artifacts
• Museum show promotes trapping
• Indigenous Games need volunteers

This collection consists of protest newspapers, newsletters, journals, essays, and 'left wing' political manifestos written and published between 1964 and 1973. The records cover Canada and the United States.

Consists of records relating to, and collected as part of Project North: The Interchurch Project on Northern Development. Includes material from the Northern Native Rights Campaign, the Project North newsletter, Project North Journal, and other materials.