[Ost-news] "Small band has big bite"

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Small band has big bite  
Slave River Journal, June 11/2008

A small First Nation group in the southern part of the Municipality of Wood Buffalo is suing the Alberta provincial government for failing to ensure its treaty rights. Industrial encroachment near the Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation is destroying their way of life, according to Chief Vern Janvier.  
“Today we’re at the point where we see no future where we are,” Janvier told reporters in a press conference Wednesday, June 4.

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