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Nagle, Patrick, Southam News, Fall 1992     "Although it will take weeks to learn the decision, the Inuit citizens of the Northwest Territories are casting votes this week on their final independence from more than three centuries of colonial

    "Mohawks in Kanesatake are on 'full alert' and bracing for another clash with Quebec provincial police, Grand Chief Jerry Peltier said Sunday after an early-morning standoff between police and armed

    "Three men from the Six Nations reserve have been found guilty in Ontario Court in Gore Bay of illegally fishing in Manitoulin Island, despite their contention that a 1701 treaty gives them hunting a

    "Anita Hill, a former band councillor and member of the Six Nations health committee, said hospitals are often insensitive to the needs of aboriginal patients."

    "The relationship between First Nations' culture and the environment will be examined in a conference at the Woodland Cultural Centre."

    "The 'legitimate government' of the Six Nations is being left out of the negotiations over the way native peoples will govern say two traditional chiefs."

    "The overwhelming majority of local natives stood in silent opposition to Monday's referendum with less than one per cent of eligible voters casting ballots."

Publication Title Unknown, 28 Oct 1992     Chief joins McMaster board OHSWEKEN - McMaster University's board of governors may have its first traditional chief as a member. Jake Thomas, a Six Nations Confederacy chief, recently attended his fi

Clark, Joe, Brantford Expositor, Fall 1992     "SAGO- Greetings for the day- is written in the Mohawk language on the black-board in the Six Nations Wildlife Trail Heritage Cabin on Chiefswood Road."

    "It's time to stop talking and start acting on native justice issues, says Justice Minister Kim Campbell."

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, Winter 1992     "A reading of the great Law, a code similar to the constitution for Iroquois nations, is set to proceed in the Six Nations community at the end of this month."

Maogowan, James, Brantford Expositor, Winter 1992     "Six Nations radio station CFNC is now legally on the air."

    "The marathon trial of three Mohawk Warriors charged in the 1990 Oka crisis is finishing with a sprint, almost a year after it started."

    "Some facts and figures on Nunavut- a new territory in Northern Canada to be created as a result of a massive land-claim settlement between the Canadian government and the area's natives."

    "The Assembly of First Nations said Wednesday it is willing to be a partner in the new Constitution if natives are treated as equals and granted self-government."

    "The on-again off-again trial of three Mohawk Warriors involved in the 1990 Oka crisis headed into it's final phase Thursday as the Crown made a closing argument to the jury."

Haper, Tim, Toronto Star ( TorStar), Winter 1992     "A Canadian Human Rights Commission study confirms Inuit families relocated to the Far North in the 1950s had their rights violated."

    "Native trustees appointed to Ontario school boards no longer need to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen."

Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor, Winter 1992     "In 1988 I did a column on the Crees people of Lubicon Lake in Alberta. They are one of the seven communities of Crees in Northern Alberta who were overlooked by the Canadian government in the 1900's

    "Ottawa will spend $8 million to build a minimum-security prison primarily to house native men on Indian land in central Alberta, federal Solicitor General Doug Lewis announced Friday."