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    "Elijah Harper, the Manitoba native leader who helped scuttle the Meech Lake accord, has been voted Canada's top newsmaker of 1990."

Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor, 15 Dec 1990     "When my wife and I remember our past Christmases, we somehow always seem to remember the happy times."

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

    "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 Jun

Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor, 7 Dec 1990     "Six Nations band councillor John Peters and Betty Doxtater, a public-spirited young woman from the reserve, have not forgotten the Mohawks at Oka."

Aubry, Jack, Southam News, 13 Dec 1990     "Canadian natives should establish their own national army for confrontations like this summer's Oka crisis, the Assembly of First Nations was told Wednesday."

Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor, Winter 1990     "My cousin, the late Peter Beaver, was one of the many men from the Six Nations Indian Reserve to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. He spent almost the entire war, from 1940

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, 19 Dec 1990     "The Six Nations community should control its own education system, says the Brant County Board of Education trustee representing the reserve."

Roper, Wayne, Brantford Expositor, 19 Dec 1990     "Four-year-old Nicole Lickers is squeezed between Josh Hill, 4, and Six Nations Chief Coun. William Montour during a sod turning Tuesday for a new day care centre in Ohsweken."

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

Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor, Winter 1990     "The invasion began with men in large vehicles and helmets. Then lots of uniformed men and cars with flashing red lights. Next came the cannons, followed by the bombers and helicopters. The environme

McNorgan, Deborah, Brantford Expositor, Winter 1990     "Call it the Maracle miracle. After 10 years of trying, Darlene Maracle and her husband Edmund are the proud parents of not one but four tiny newborns."

    "The incident happened nearly 70 years ago in the remote coastal region of British Columbia but its repercussions are still being felt. Members of the Kwakiutl band defied an 1884 federal law prohibi

    "Canada's natives, living in Third World conditions, can't jump on the deficit-reduction bandwagon because they're mired in poverty and hopelessness, says the leader of the Assembly of First Nations.

    "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 wra

Smith, Christopher, Brantford Expositor, Spring 1990     "Students at School No. 1 on the Six Nations reserve spent the week learning traditional ways of survival as part of a Heritage Week program. Earlier in the week they were taught to skin a rabbit and

    "John Amagoalik's family was forced to stand on guard for the true north strong and free. But Canada never stood on guard for them. Canada moved them to a strange and distant land from northern Quebe

Gallagher, Beth, Brantford Expositor, Spring 1990     "With a few turkey feathers and some buckskin lace, Barb Bradley has tickles the likes of former hockey player Johnnie Bucyk of the Boston Bruins, and an Elvis fan in Italy."

Green, Richard G., Brantford Expositor, Summer 1990     "One has to think that author Thomas King is on a roll. He has been involved, if not responsible for, Canada's first two books released in 1990 by native authors."