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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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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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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.

Collection consists of pamphlets, flyers, newsletters, and government reports regarding agricultural policy, issues, and regulations, especially pertaining to the Durham County region. Subjects include soil conditions, pesticide and herbicide use, etc.

The fonds consists of the 3 issues of the newspaper "The Peterborough Common Press" which was published in Peterborough, Ontario.