Lubicon Lake Indian Nation
                                           Little Buffalo Lake, AB
                                           403-629-3945
                                           FAX:  403-629-3939

                                           Mailing address:
                                           3536 - 106 Street
                                           Edmonton, AB T6J 1A4
                                           403-436-5652
                                           FAX:  403-437-0719

November 16, 1992


Daishowa has made Survival International's "Top Ten" list of "Companies
that do not listen or care".

The International newsletter of Survival International says that these
"Top Ten" companies have been picked by Survival International on the
500th anniversary of Columbus landing in North America "to convey the
message that the European invasion, set in motion by Columbus' so-called
discovery of the Americas, is by no means over".  It says that "These
(ten) western and Japanese companies, busy plundering the last corners of
the Earth, are the ones continuing that invasion".

The newsletter says that Daishowa was included in the "Top Ten" list for
"planning to fell trees across vast areas of land claimed by the Lubicon
Cree Indians of northern Alberta".

Other companies on the "Top Ten" list include:

      -   Rio Tinto Zinc, a British multinational mining company, whose
          plans to mine copper and uranium in Wisconsin, Panama and
          Ontario have threatened the lives of 100,000 Native Indians;

      -   Hanson, a British multinational holding company, whose
          subsidiary, Peabody, runs a coal mine in Arizona which has
          forced Navajo people to leave their homes and polluted their
          river;

      -   Newmont Gold, a British company controlled by Sir James
          Goldsmith, is mining for gold on land that belongs to the
          Western Shoshone people in Nevada, ransacking their resources
          and risking cyanide pollution;

      -   Maxus, an American oil company, is building a pipeline and road
          into the heart of territory in Ecuador occupied by the Waorani,
          a vulnerable and semi-nomadic tribe of 1,600;

      -   The UK Ministry of Defence is violating the rights of the Innu
          people in Labrador and Quebec by practicing low flying
          exercises over their land, making it impossible for them to
          earn their livelihoods in their traditional way from hunting;
      -   Energy Fuels Nuclear, an American company, is mining uranium at
          Red Butte near the entrance to the Grand Canyon in Arizona,
          regarded by the Havasupai people as a sacred site;

      -   Shell, the British and Danish oil company, is involved in
          trying to exploit natural gas fields on the Camisea River in
          Peru which would damage the lands of the Machiguenga people;

      -   Exxon, the American oil company, has a 50% share in a 90,000-
          acre opencast coal mine at El Cerrejon which is destroying the
          land of the Wayuu Indians in the far north of Columbia;

      -   Uranerz, a German mining company, has a major holding in the
          world's largest working uranium mine at Key Lake in
          Saskatchewan, which is threatening the local Dene and Cree
          peoples.