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Article: Vets (National Aboriginal Veterans Association) threaten to end association with (National Aboriginal Achievement) foundation.
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- December 1, 1999
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WINNIPEG
The president of the National Aboriginal Veterans Association (NAVA) says the group is poised to publicly sever all association with the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards Foundation (NAAF) after repeated attempts by the group to actively participate in the Aboriginal Veterans Scholarship Trust Fund were rebuffed by foundation founder and chairman John Kim Bell.
"He trots us out at the annual awards ceremonies, but that's the extent of our participation. It's all show and we're tired of being dictated to by him," said veterans' group president, Claude Petit.
The dispute, he said, has been ongoing since the veterans scholarship was ...