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 13, 1992

The Austrian Society for Endangered Peoples has nominated the Lubicon
Lake Indian Nation and Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak for the
prestigious Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award.  Such recognition of
the Lubicon people and Chief Ominayak is not only well deserved but
would help redress the frightful odds faced by the Lubicon people in
their continuing up-hill struggle to achieve respect for their human
rights and the human rights of indigenous people everywhere. 

Letters supporting the Lubicon nomination have been requested and
should mention the courageous struggle of this small indigenous
society to survive the well documented efforts of both levels of
Canadian Government and dozens of multi-national resource
exploitation companies to steal indigenous lands and resources, the
international recognition which the Lubicon people have achieved as
evidenced by the conclusions of such respected international bodies
as the World Council of Churches (which charged possible genocidal
consequences) and the UN Human Rights Committee (which found that the
Lubicons couldn't achieve effective legal or political redress within
Canada), the widely recognized and respected role of the Lubicons and
particularly Lubicon Chief Ominayak in the international struggle to
achieve respect for the human rights of indigenous people everywhere,
and the great poignancy of giving the prestigious Bruno Kreisky Human
Rights Award to an indigenous people in the International Year of
Indigenous People.  

Letters supporting the Lubicon nomination should be sent as soon as
possible to:

Bruno Kreisky Menschenrechtsstiftung
Attn. Director Alfred Str”er
Wienzeile 97
A-1050 Vienna
Austria/Europe
Telephone:  011-43-222-545-12-14
Fax:  011-43-222-545-30-97