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      "Native children and parents are learning their culture together in a unique preschool immersion program run by grandmothers."

      "Half-naked and shivering in the winter air, 15 men walk barefoot over the snow, then kneel and kiss the earth next to a small tent."

      "On Dec. 5 in the Indian village of Wabasca in northern Alberta, an environmental impact assessment review board met to hear submissions on the potential impact of the world's largest bleach kraft pulp mill proposed by Alberta-Pacific Forest industries."

      "Native police officers in Winnipeg win the right to wear braids on religious grounds and Indian prisoners take part in sweat lodge ceremonies."

 Brantford Expositor, Winter 1990     "David Vance and Amos Key look over the office of Touch the Sky Business Development Centre which opened Wednesday at Ohsweken."

      "Mohawk College will be offering Ojibwa classes at the New Credit campus this winter."

      "The Meech Lake accord, designed to accommodate Quebec in a Canadian constitution with stronger provincial powers, died when Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper, a Cree Indian, blocked ratification by the June 23 deadline in his legislature because he said it ignored native rights.

      "The Six Nations police force is the only independent native police force in Ontario. It has been cited by governments, police bodies and native groups as a model for others to follow."

      "Six nations band council has asked the federal government to provide funding for a nutritionist at the medical centre."

      "Being the first woman elected to the Fort Nelson Indian band council was an intimidating experience for Carole Corcoran."

 Brantford Expositor, Spring 1990     "Shades of traditional native culture are meeting the contemporary concept of profits and development at the new Eagle's Nest Business Complex."

      "Last month, the movie Divided Loyalties was shown on CBC television. It cost several million dollars to make and it had many memorable scenes. HOwever it had some glaring errors which were apparently put in strictly for dramatic effect. It is too ad that filmmakers feel that such things have …

      "When Emily Daigneault was a little girl growing up on the Indian reserve near Parry Sound, Ont., she watched her parents prepare meals in the bush-often fish steamed on hot coals in a birch-bark wrapper."

      "The Brantford premiere of the movie Dances with Wolves, starring Kevin Costner, will be a benefit for the FM radio station in Ohsweken."

      "A $9 million land claim signed Wednesday by the Ontario government and five chiefs from Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron could prove a model for other settlements in the province, said Native Affairs Minister Bud Wildman."

      "The camera loves Ojibway fashion model Brenn Sandy. No need for cosmetic contouring-her cheekbones soar without it. There are no angular edges to interrupt the perfect oval of her face. She projects a cool, sultry self-assurance that belies her off-camera warmth and shyness."

      "The Assembly of First Nations and 27 other native organizations are losing most of their federal funding. A spokesman for the Assembly of First Nations said the organization was informed Friday it will lose $592,00 in core funding as of July 1."

      "The 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New World is nothing to be happy about, a native leader says."

 Brantford Expositor, Spring 1990     "Amos Keye (second from right), the speaker at the Sweetgrass First Nations Language Council and director of Languages at the Woodland Cultural Centre, stands with (from left) Reg Henry of the Six Nations, Bessie Lazore of Cornwall and Lena White of Sudbury. They received lifetime achievement awards for people who …

      "The recent television production Divided Loyalties, which dealt with the life of Joseph Brant, underlined once again the impact that this individual had in the early history of Canada and the United States. Brant was able to exert as much influence as he did, not just because of his position …