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Article: Striking a fair deal.(Historic treaties governing land use of Cree Indians evaluated.)
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- Geographical
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- July 1, 2000
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Are the treaties, signed over 100 years ago by native Canadian Indians and European settlers, still valid in the 21st-century? Michael Bond meets the Cree Indians on their own territory
ALCOHOL HAS BEEN A CURSE among North American Indians since the European settlers first arrived on their shores. Today, half the inmates of prisons in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan are native Indians, and almost all of them committed their crimes when drunk or on drugs. As one Saskatchewan Cree Indian elder put it in Connie Sampson's Blinded by Silence, "Your people built schools and they could not hold us. They built hospitals and they could not hold us. Now they build ...