This fonds consists of bound volumes of newspaper clippings, mostly concerning the Legislative Assembly of Ontario between 1916 and 1919. Four of the six volumes have the name J.J. Preston inside the front cover. One volume has the name J.C. Elliott on it. Elliott was the member for Middlesex West. The newspapers are from "The Globe" and the "Daily Mail and Empire".

Collection consists of photocopies of newspaper clippings gathered as part of the press clippings service for Indian and Northern Affairs from June 10 1989 to August 30 1990. The photocopies are on a wide range of topics all concerning Indigenous peoples and communities. A large portion of the articles are about the Oka Crisis with mention to Alanis Obomsawin and the Kanehsatake Resistance, as well as the Meech Lake Accord with mention to Premier Robert Bourassa and the groups, The Native Council of Canada, The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, and The Assembly of First Nations.

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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

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• 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

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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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INTERNATIONAL VISIT:

• Trip to Osnaburg by Desmond Tutu
  BUSINESS:
• Greater GST relief sought by Indians
• Foundation's loan program expanding to non-natives
• Dress business expanding into new building on Tyendinaga reserve
• Down Home shop marks 256th business on S.N .
• Tourism: Natives are sitting on a gold mine
• Natives overcoming barriers
• Native youths urged to become active
• Ministry announces grant for Sandy Lake
  LAND CLAIMS, TREATIES:
• Supreme Court ruling on treaty called victory for natives in Quebec
• Indians hail "historic judgment" on 1760 treaty
• Land selection hits a snag in Delta
  MEECH LAKE:
• We must keep talking
• Oral Question Period - Commons Debates
• Special Commons Committee proposals
  AKWESASNE:
• Pro-gambler faces weapons charge
• Mohawks protest police on reserve
• Minnesota casino looks to Ontario
• News editor out on bail in reserve killing
• Tony Laughing discovers he has no deal on avoiding jail
• On St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, dogs prove trooper's best friends
• Warrior spokesman charged in dispute at police roadblock
• Lawyer claims police out of line during arrest
• "Lousy shot" George not murdering type
• Cuomo says traditionals to have role
  POLICE RELATIONS, JUSTICE:
• Rights body seeks probe of police-relations
• Native justice system encouraged
  EDUCATION:
• Natives push for aboriginal language education
• Unity sealed
• Native students get taste of Metro
• Native students need role model
• Webequie school empty since March
• School year slipping away for Webequie students
• Protesters merely exercising their rights, lawyer says
• Are you native and graduating from High School?
  THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTESTS:
• Downtrodden hold the key to saving the planet
• Time running out
• Ten Temagami protesters to be tried sometime in September
• NATO defense officials nix base on Innu land
• NWT, natives complain Defense changing tune
• Natives upset over jet base
• Minister gave warning on Indian funds
• Vancouver Island Indian bands want compensation
  HEALTH:
• Fasting for better health care -- Part 1
  ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Wild game gets "canned" in Peawanuck
• Timmins gathering has become a tradition
• Paula Gunn Allen
• Lessons that natives can teach whites
• Puppets of their own past
• A life in spirals
• AGO exhibits new Inuit donation
• National Museum home to 400,000 pieces of the Yukon
• Blackfoot artifacts are returned to Alberta
• Native theatre group
• Papers will try to continue
• CP establishes native scholarship
  TRAVEL:
• More the merrier in Heritage Year on Manitoulin
• Head-Smashed-In lives on to recall buffalo glory
• Young brave suffered for curiosity
• Danger and beauty on Ellesmere Island
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Tear it up and start again
• Witness to native betrayal
• Stop shuffling ministers
• Warriors fall to Trickster
• 200 years ago animals were fair game
• Rename Victoria Day
  UPCOMING EVENTS:
• Pow Wow Summer

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AKWESASNE:

• Akwesasne election challenged in court
• Preliminary inquiry set for Doug George
• Indians challenge election of chiefs
  LAND CLAIMS, NATIVE RIGHTS:
• 5 Native bands accept Ontario claims deal
• $8.9M native land deal
• Band refuses to sign land deal
• Ottawa criticized in land claim deal
• NWT deal for land rejected
• Ottawa tells Dene, Metis it can salvage N.W.T. deal
• Dene, Metis reject deal over land
• C.S. military reduction "bad blow" for Goose Ray
• Will native claims flare up in Ontario?
• Establish commission on natives, Lewis urges
• Restaurateur won't fight with natives to collect CST
  EDUCATION:
• Contract signed to deliver courses over airwaves
  HEALTH:
• 14 health projects financed
• Metro doctor makes Arctic house calls
• Study to test native healing of drug users
• Yanomami dying, Brazilians report
  SOCIAL ISSUES:
• Natives adopted by white families get chance to discover their heritage
• Family finances cited in suicide of native inmate
  EDITORIALS, COMMENTARY, LETTERS, POLITICAL CARTOONS:
• Only good faith will end impasse
• Ottawa's conspicuous absence from Oka
• Dying for attention
• Ottawa takes a pass
• Call the cavalry
• White justice and native justice
• Missing the bigger picture at Oka
• Indians open big window on selves
• How did this get by unnoticed
• White-hot hate lights the night
• A desperate lack of leadership
• How guns of Oka wrecked PM's plans
• No happy medium for Mohawks
• Blockade nightly magnet for crowd
• PM pulls a Hatfield
• Peter Stockland
• Who really owns the land in Oka?
• Chateauguay resembles Alabama in the 1960s
• Touchy Quebec exhibits racism
• Where's the PM?
• This place is downright surreal
• Legacy of long memories
• Strangers in their own land
• Let's talk peace with native peoples
• A summer of guns and discontent
• Bienvenue to Hate Town
• Mohawk mess was avoidable
• Canada ... the violent society?
• Editors didn't Win any prizes
• Sending Canada back to the drawing board
• We'll wear Mohawk shoes when the Goths invade
• Oka shows what happens when bureaucrats are in charge
• Willing to buy land
• Why should natives sacrifice a culture to industrial way?
• Indians undermined
• Revealing episode?
• A sensitive headline
• It's only the beginning of solidarity with natives
• With the benefit in hindsight...
• A shameful display for world to see
• Photos' violent image unfair
• Standoff is a 'national crisis'
• Aboriginal claims
• Oka incident reveals the struggle ahead
• We must keep calm during this racial strife
• Most Quebecois back native cause
• Oka mayor has revealed his priorities
• Political cartoons
  HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Archeological site a "Garden of Eden" for early Indians
• Toronto's Iroquois heritage is a little known story
• Tantalizing hints to ancient history destroyed by airport construction
• Natives find their spirit
• Being "true" to what he sees
• Horrendous personal price of success
• Native writers ignore the past, pinpoint today
• Gentle new show a summer treat

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NORTHERN ONTARIO RAILWAY BLOCKADES/LAND CLAIMS & PROTESTS:

• CP Rail traffic back to normal
• Indians block road
• Schedule normal again for CP rail
• Native rail blockades razed
• PM under fire over blockades
• Band lifts blockade of CP Rail
• Governments turn ear to natives
• Worry grows over cost of Indian rail blockades
• Pays Plat band told to clear track
• Band lifts CN blockade after injunction granted
• Court order won't open route
• Peigan Indians attempt to divert Oldman River
• CN asks court to remove natives (Railway blockade costs mount)
• Natives block highway
• Railway blocked at Long Lake
• Indian Commission agrees to disagree
• Quick-fix plan on land claims seeks progress within a month
• Federal commitment to Ontario Indians confirmed
• Report makes far-reaching recommendations for four Windigo communities
  ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:
• 4,000 bison should be killed federal panel says
• Northerners return home after fire evacuation
• Chemical spraying north of Sioux Lookout postponed
  ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU'S VISIT:
• Tutu visit made Ojibwa reserve visible-- briefly
• Support for Indians seen as trap for Tutu
• Tutu comes to Osnaburgh (Tutu brings message of hope to residents of Osnaburgh)
• Wawatay broadcast of Tutu visit cancelled
• People come from near and far to shar~ in Tutu's visit to Osnaburgh
  RACE RELATIONS AND NATIVE RIGHTS:
• Race relations training plan to be tested by Metro Police
• Report reveals Sioux Lookout has a race relations problem
• Independent First Nations Alliance calls Geneva trip "fruitful"
  EDUCATION/ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT:
• Obstacles bar chief's quest to finance Inuvik College
• Indians continue cross-country run
• Education Task Force Up-Date
• MDs urged to remove barriers to natives
• Reserve to have woman's shelter
• Band in charge of nursing station construction
• Native nursing hone proposal rejected by Health Ministry
• Council stands firm against GST
  CRIMES COMMITTED ON NATIVES
• Slashed body identified as drifter, 27
• Hunt for long-lost son has tragic end
  POLITICS:
• Status Indians number half a million
• Land-claim dispute may hurt NDP
• Manitoba native woos northern vote
• Difficulties stem from archaic, paternalistic Indian Act
• A different, quieter point of view: Canada's native MPs and senators
  COMMENTARY, EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Commentary
• Rae speak with forked tongue?
• The first native blockade
• PM's style invites crisis
• Support this native protest
• Warriors respect soldiers
• Does Canada want a Wounded Knee?
• People who throw stones
• A royal commission could help all Canadians grapple with native issues
• Don't stop to conquer
• We're on the brink of civil war
• Army ready to smash way in
• First Nations or one nation?
• Inquiry must end this mess
• Next steps after the barricades come down
• The trouble with using the military is that force has unintended results
• Where were the other voices?
• Emergency projects offer commuters dubious gains
• Tell us what's happening, please
• Recall Parliament to deal with crises
• Shifting Political landscapes in a surreal Quebec
• Time for Unity
• Hanging Frogs & Burning Indians
• CBC's usually staid Journal flips over the Mohawk crisis
• Repeal the Indian Act and stop blockades
• Strange images of Canada
• The Ugly Canadian
• Native justice denied
• A resource of people
• Editorials
• Two-faced justice in Mohawk crisis
• No winners here
• How support is lost for native causes
• Playing for time
• Quebec's justice is on trial
• The Summer of Discontent
• How will the civil authorities deal with the Mohawk Warriors' weapons?
• The Squeaky-Wheel Syndrome
• Unpack your troubles...
• Seaway motor road: yes, but
• Peaceful outcome is possible
• Natives in Parliament
• Letters
• Indian land claims are preposterous
• No empty promises
• How much longer are we going to allow native people to defy the law?
• Improved by Indians
• Mohawks not subject to Canadian law
• Invisible native people
• Wicks' Outcasts
• Canada's natives, wild animals exloited by fur lobby
• MOHAWKS: Is it right to punish them for our prolonged neglect of their plight?
• Political Cartoons
  ARTS, CULTURE:
• Common mother tongue speaks to the brotherhood of man
• Can authenticity flourish within boundaries?
• Native display besieged at CNE
• Book review: One man's attempt to understand the Indian experience
• Oka understood by native conductor and benefactor
  UP COMING EVENTS:
• Conference on Adolescent Treatment
• NIPA '90: A Conference on Native Photography and Art
• Sound of the Drum Conference
• Join the Circle Campaign
• National Addictions Awareness Week
• Do You Need Our Help? (Native Canadian Centre of Toronto)

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• OPP bill almost $1 million in Temagami logging fight
• Indian bands back protest on logging
• Wells close after Lubicon band's threat - Little Buffalo
• A Lesson in Misery - Canadian Indians look back in anger at residential schools
• Attempt to squelch Meech discord inflames showdown
• Six Nations Schools
• Violence feared over crackdown on bingo - Montreal
• Native groups demand role in Alberta mill - Edmonton
• Opponents of pulp-mill projects give Environment Minister earful - Calgary
• Ottawa sets up panel on Indian health care
• Indian status didn't change - Toronto
• Lubicon land-claim offer won't change - Calgary
• More about Six Nations
• Police issue warrants for top 3 organizers of Kahnawake bingo
• Native dancer's sci-fi connection - Toronto
• More about Kahnawake
• MP demands judicial inquiry into native suicides
• Chief acclaimed - Brantford
• Companies hire too few minorities - Ottawa
• Native Women challenge art ideas - Ottawa
• More about Kahnawake - Montreal
• Foes of Meech riding a wave of intolerance Peterson says - Saint John
• more about the Lubicons
• Disabilities hit Indians on reserves at almost twice rate in non-natives
• Chief encourage Innu to shoot at military jets - Winnipeg
• The native nightmare of Alberta - Standoff, Alta.
• more about disabilities on Northern reserves
• more about the Mohawks of Kahnawake - commentary
• Shots fired at police car on reserve - Cornwall
• Letters about native housing and Temagami to Toronto editors
• Their brother's keeper - Edmonton
• Shooting at phantoms - Halifax commentary
• Indians will set up schools if no teaching reforms are made native Manitoba judge warns - Winnipeg
• Indians to be consulted on education - Ottawa
• Speed lands claims officials told - Winnipeg
• Inquiry ends with calls for native legal system- Winnipeg
• more about Six Nations schools

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• Fur-bidding sessions are link to past-Manitoba
• Comments demand inquiry - Toronto commentary
• B.C. bands on brink of self-government - Vancouver
• Elmira plant· told to stop dumping of chemical
• Toward native self-sufficiency - Toronto commentary
• $50,000 spent to promote bingo on reserve - Toronto
• Fighting for justice - Alberta
• Food prices in North to jump - Montreal
• Death arouses criticism - Winnipeg
• Native people's dilemma: tradition vs. jobs-Edmonton
• Reserve protests train cut - Winnipeg
• Lubicons ask Getty to clarify offer - Edmonton
• Candles lit to support Lubicons - Edmonton
• Remove "racist, sexist" judge - Edmonton
• Order of Canada honors skater - Toronto
• Whitefish, Sturgeon Lake band claims finalized
• Indians reach land deal - Calgary
• Death rate triple for Indians under 35 - Toronto
• Fur auction prices drop from last year's levels
• Lubicons get better offer from province - Edmonton
• Sexual assault in NWT less violent, judge asserts
• New act requires police to hire more minorities
• Remember the ones we too often forget - Toronto
• Indian land claim threatened - Edmonton
• Goose Bay opposes LIA petition
• AFL backs Lubicon oil shutdown
• Mohawks divided over casinos - USA Today
• Games boost economies - USA Today
• Bands without reserve status may have case heard again
• Chiefs turn down offer to re-write Indian Act

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• 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

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• 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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• 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

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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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• Soviet Inuit to join Arctic discussions -Sisimiut
• Inuit from four lands at top-of-world summit
• Forest fires force 16,500 to flee homes -Winnipeg
• More on forest fires Standoff between militants, police draws to end at Mohawk reserve -Hogansberg, N.Y.
• More on Akwesasne blockade Extradition fight, fall from grace occupy exiled U.S. Indian activist -Vancouver
• Manitoba Indian bands to sign defence treaty
• Summer low-level jets fly right over the Innu letter to editor -Toronto
• 5 die on Ontario roads in weekend accidents
• Sarcee sign agreement on military clean-up -Calgary
• Leg amputated -Kashechewan
• Navajo dispute -Window Rock, Ariz. Saskatchewan
• Cree community blames federal housing policy for massive tornado damage
• More on U.N. probe
• $15,000.paid over infant's airport x-ray
• CBC urged to hire more natives
• Sons of the Chief -book review -Toronto
• Time to overhaul outdated Indian Act, official says
• More on U.N. probe
• More on native defence pact
• Mohawk Indians occupy St. Nicholas island -Montreal
• More on Akwesasne blockade
• Federal payments cut by $2.2 billion
• More on U.N. probe
• More on Temagami logging
• More on forest fires
• Better Indian relations new directorate's goal Edmonton
• Sault Ste. Marie fishing dispute
• Photo of native dancer
• More on U.N. probe
• More on forest fires
• Program S -Toronto
• More on forest fires
• More on U.N. probe
• Man drank fatal amount, native probe told -Lethbridge
• More on Temagami logging
• More on post-secondary education
• Act fast on Shoal Lake, editorial -Winnipeg
• More on Temagami logging
• More on U.N. probe
• Canada's racism record: some cause for optimism
• Rights board probes CBC, Bell Canada over hiring policies -Ottawa
• Rufus Prince, won fight for native hunting rights obituary -Brandon, Manitoba
• More on forest fires
• Government grants to study Ontario's forest management
• More on forest fires
• Indians across the country step up protests in quest for power -Ottawa
• More on forest fires
• City's water threatened -Winnipeg
• Native indict The Pas -Winnipeg
• Aboriginal court sets gov't eviction date
• More on U.N. probe
• Ottawa must deal with natives, editorial -Sault Saint Marie
• INAC encourages women bosses
• Recollet eyes justice system changes -Sault St. Marie
• Whitefish Island land claim
• Native group challenges the Canadian Indian Act
• DIANO Minister gets 'D' on columnist's report card Political cartoon -Vancouver
• Nun's efforts in native education rewarded
• Letter of thanks re: fire evacuation -Geraldton
• More on post-secondary education
• Claim to be pursued with, without treaty -London
• Indians want base back -London
• Walpole band farm gets S600,000 grant

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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.

This following folder includes

• 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

The following folder includes

• Why wasn't the Fire Code enforced?
• She found poem -- and a lot more
• Cuts silence natives, band says
• Sharks may spawn new Arctic industry
• Flames out but cres still fight tire fire
• Ontario vows to prevent tire fires
• Temagami Indian band loses bid to save trees
• Silent about insult
• Metis win chance to pursue huge claim
• Town in NWT declares four official languages
• Battling pollution rush target at tire dump
• No more tire fires - editorial
• Low level flights - political cartoon
• High schools told to change "Redskins" name
• How children see the disaster
• Tire fire reported snuffed out
• Tory cuts seem aimed at muzzling critics
• Mint begins pitch for gold coin
• 5 N.S. judges face hearing over Marshall
• "End in sight" to tire blaze
• Budget cuts hit northern radio
• Native programs singled out - editorial
• The better way to burn old tires
• N.W.T. judge gets desk job during probe
• N.S. Micmac group closes its office
• Native writing anthology on list of spring books
• Where there's smoke, there's buyers
• Cuts show bias, native leaders say
• Native press is killed in one cynical stroke
• Natives vow to expand subsidized housing despite neighbor's bias
• Mennonites to protest Labrador NATO bases
• Spending on natives "at minimum level"
• He's the last of the lacrosse-stick makers
• Funding for Wawatay axed in federal budget
• Bigotry on the rise, poll finds
• Nation of bigots? - editorial
• Tires continue to burn as officials pin hopes on warmer weather