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


February 23, 1993


Attached for your information is a copy of an open letter to
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney regarding the continuing
Lubicon tragedy.



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February 01, 1993, Windspeaker, letter to the Editor from Ontario
resident Stephen Kenda

An open letter to Brian Mulroney:

I don't think you could fool someone in Grade 4 with Mr. Siddon's
statement that the alleged $73 million federal/provincial offer
to the Lubicons is "fair and generous".  Using the government's
$10.5 million valuation of the 246-square-kilometre proposed
reserve, the 10,000 square kilometres of Lubicon land would be
worth well over $425 million.  The Lubicons ask $167 million.

The alleged offer has been publicly exposed to be worth less than
Canada's clearly unacceptable 1989 take-it-or-leave-it offer.

Public relations games are not a substitute for a fair offer.  If
this government can't see the difference, hopefully the next one
will.

Yours truly,  Stephen Kenda

P.S.  The government claims that "Canada's 1989 offer was an
appropriate remedy".  This is not what the United Nations Human
Rights Committee wrote.  Significantly, the UN did write that
"Recent developments threaten the way of life and culture of the
Lubicon Lake Band and constitute a violation of Article 27 so
long as they continue."