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      "A proposal for a native early childhood education program developed by the Union of Ontario Indians is progressing well and may be offered as soon as September of this year."

      "Racism and lack of advancement are prompting aboriginal people to leave the federal public service at more than double the rate of other government employees, says a new study."

      "Dieter was a student at File Hills until 1942. When you ask what he learned there, he pauses briefly. 'I think it taught me how I would not want to treat people. I was called no good, that I would never make anything of myself, that Indians didn't need an …

      "Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's announcement of a royal commission on aboriginal issues has not been met with enthusiasm by members of the Six Nations community."

      "Chief Coun. Montour, 49, has said he wants more involvement from the regional chiefs in the national lobby group."

      "Canadian natives want their next leader to have the political power of the prime minister or a provincial premier, says one candidate."

      "An area woman is among six lay members of the Anglican Church of Canada to receive the church's award of merit."

      "The anger and turmoil within Canadian native communities has found its way on to the canvasses of native artists and into the new exhibit at the Woodland Cultural Centre."

      "The provincial transportation minister will be in Ohsweken on Wednesday to resolve a dispute over two strips of land running on either side of the Grand River from Brantford to Dunnville."

      "The theme of this year's Drumbeat Conference is rebuilding Our Nations. Like last year, it will be hosted by the Hodenosaunee Confederacy of the Six Nations."

      "I have been told by various people that they disagreed with my column about Christopher Columbus. Some of them rank the myth of the Great Discovery of America, right up there with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Like children, we native people are not supposed to question anything American …

      "A deal between the province and Six Nations council on the use of land claimed by the band along a provincial highway was delayed Wednesday when traditional chiefs demanded a say in the agreement."

      "Members of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai Indian band signed an agreement with the province Thursday giving them an equal say in resource development of four nearby townships."

      "Canada's outdated and "discriminatory" Indian Act is keeping natives from becoming free and equal players in Canada, says a native leader."

      "A 1984 court ruling against the Temagami Indian land claim in Northern Ontario was based on a "remote and isolated" view of history, a lawyer for the Union of Ontario Indians told the Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday."

      "Status Indians who fish and hunt for food in their treaty areas may continue to do so unless they pose a threat to conservation or public safety, the Ontario government said Tuesday."

      "Aboriginal people have been "treated like dirt" since whites set foot in Canada but natives aren't going to be kept down anymore, a leadership candidate for the Assembly of First Nations said Tuesday night."

      "Are we, as Canadians, really planning long-term - thinking in terms of what or how we are planning for 50 years from today? What is Canada going to look like? Are some of the crisis situations going to be repeated? When we talk about the Canadian Constitution, how do we …

      "At the recent Drumbeat Conference I was reminded once again why the native people of North, South and Central America regard the coming celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' Great Discovery with little enthusiasm."

      "Bill Montour soon graduated from toys and household items. He spent 15 years as a high steel worker, putting buildings together, and occasionally, taking them apart. Now he's running for the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations."