First Nations News
History
Before
“Canada” existed, the relationship between aboriginal peoples and settlers was
managed by the British Crown. It was cemented with the Royal Proclamation of
1763, described by some as a “Bill of Rights” for Canada’s indigenous
population. King George III wanted to avoid the protracted conflicts that
characterized previous North American colonization and pave the way for British
settlers following the Seven Years’ War.
The
Proclamation’s sections dealing with aboriginal relations admitted “great frauds
and abuses” had been committed against the first peoples in Canada and sought a
new relationship. The document outlined boundaries beyond which land was
considered unceded — essentially off limits to new arrivals. It also ensured
all future land negotiations would be made in public and recorded with
treaties.
In B.C., as in Quebec, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and
the Atlantic provinces, the vast proportion of land has never been subject to
treaty. Although often referred to as public or Crown land, most of these areas
are the unceded homelands of Indigenous nations. (article)
Royal Proclamation of
1763 (Wikipedia)
Map of Ontario
Treaties and Reserves
Delgamuukw Case
In
1997 the Supreme Court of Canada that Aboriginal title constituted an ancestral
right protected by section 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982. It effectively
set a precedent establishing Aboriginal title to unceded land. (article)
Who Decides?
See: The Complicated
History of Hereditary Chiefs and Elected Councils
Treaties
Link
to Government of Ontario Map
of Ontario Treaties and Reserves
Excerpt
from the Vancouver Observer (article)
10
things Canadians should know about the Treaties upon which the oil sands/tar
sands are being developed:
1.
If you
are a Canadian, know you are a signatory to a Treaty. If you are a settler
(i.e. non-Indigenous), know you are a benefactor of the Treaty.
2.
Read
the Treaty. Know which Treaty territory you are on. You can read Treaty 6 and
Treaty 8, the two treaty territories that sit in the tar sands.
3.
Know
that the Treaty is not just an Indigenous peoples’ agreement. We are all Treaty
peoples. Know that treaties are the foundation of Canada.
4.
The
Treaty is a reciprocal treaty, an equal treaty for co-existence. It was an
agreement between the British Crown and Indigenous peoples. First Nations
leaders believed they were entering into a trust relationship with the
representative of the British Crown. They considered the Treaty a mutual trust
agreement to live in peace.
5.
Non-native
people are benefactors of those treaties because they are receiving the
benefits and profits of the resources from native land. There are billions of
dollars coming out of traditional territories, and it never stays in the
territory. These real costs of resource extraction, in turn, are borne by the
people and communities who have lived here all along.
6.
First
Nations never violated the treaty.
7.
First
Nations have never surrendered their land.
8.
The
federal government has a fiduciary responsibility with First Nations who
entered into Treaty. In plain terms, it's similar to the responsibility that a
corporation has to its shareholders. The Canadian government’s shareholders are
First Nations and it has a duty, a legal responsibility to them.
9.
When
reading the Treaty, you’ll never come across the word “ownership”, because no
one can own the land. The land owns its inhabitants.
10.
According
to the Treaty, as long as the grass grows, the rivers flow and the sun shines,
First Nations will always have a right to the land to hunt and fish and forage.
As long as industrial development continues to take place on these lands
without consent, these Constitutional rights are being violated.
Williams Treaties
Williams
Treaties First Nations state they have an outstanding claim against Canada and
Ontario concerning the signing of the treaties. The group consists of the
Georgina Island First Nation, the Beausoleil First Nation, the Rama First
Nation, the Mississaugas’ of Alderville First Nation, the Curve Lake First
Nation, the Hiawatha First Nation and the Scugog Island First Nation.
According to federal government’s Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
Canada website, the Williams Treaties is a series of agreements that designated
large parcels of land in southern and central Ontario acquired by the
Government of Canada in 1923.
Treaty Six (6)
The
story of Treaty Six (article)(article)
Treaty Annuity Payments
In
Canada, treaty annuity payments are paid annually on a national basis to
registered Indians who are entitled to treaty annuities through membership to
bands that have signed historic treaties with the Crown. Depending
on the terms of the specific treaty, these obligations can include the payment
of individual treaty annuities, the provision of ammunition and twine for nets,
and the provision of a suit of clothing every three years for Chiefs and
Councillors.
AWARE-Ontario (AO) Comment
Over
the centuries up to today the Treaties were, for the most part, ignored or
deliberately contravened. Now the relationship between indigenous and
non-indigenous people is strained to say the least.
“For
more than a century, Canadians have been accustomed to reports of terrible
housing conditions on reserves, unsafe drinking water, dismal educational
outcomes and, at least in Western Canada, prison populations disproportionally
stacked with aboriginal inmates. Aboriginal leaders and young people such as
those who embraced the Idle No More movement have been calling for
Canadians to fundamentally acknowledge the injustices and atrocities of the
past and fix the problems that keep indigenous Canadians from living the same
quality of life as their non-aboriginal neighbours.” (source)
Today’s
actions build on the actions of the past and so far, the story has not been
favourable to First Nations. However, the tide is turning. First
Nations people are learning to play the game (legal / political / economic / social
/ environmental), how to demand enforcement of treaty rights and how to
celebrate First Nations culture in Canada’s multicultural society.
And thanks to the internet’s ability to bring people face-to-face with the
issues, First Nations supporters are growing in number.
From
a legal point of view, Canada’s law ensures that we honour our agreements. The
Treaties were struck by the European settlers with the indigenous people of
this land and are the earliest agreements. If we do not honour our agreements,
then the basis for law dissolves. If we do not honour our agreements for a
particular group of people, then the law cannot be trusted and the basis for
equality becomes subjective, putting us all at risk.
From
a political point of view, Canadians are proud of our ability to live together
in relative harmony, accepting our neighbours and lending a helping hand when
necessary. The fact that many First Nations people have been living in squalor
with social and legal injustices is unacceptable. First Nations and their
supporters are becoming loud in their demands for a solution from political
representatives. The issue is echoed by similar situations across the world
and voiced in the United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
From
an economic point of view, "in B.C., as in Quebec, Yukon, the Northwest
Territories and the Atlantic provinces, the vast proportion of land has never
been subject to treaty. Although often referred to as public or Crown land,
most of these areas are the unceded homelands of Indigenous nations." (article) In
other words, the amount of land and natural resources is enormous giving First
Nations significant economic leverage.
From a social point of view, the importance of the internet
and alternative media cannot be downplayed. We are seeing a bigger picture. First
Nations are showing their support for other groups and areas (Site 41, Stop the Mega Quarry) and
by simply standing for the environmental and land rights of all Canadians. Their
influence is widespread and growing with their efforts on behalf of us all,
becoming appreciated.
From
an environmental point of view, First Nations have rights such as hunting and
fishing written into the Constitution of Canada, which by extension could apply
to the right to clean water, fresh air, and healthy woodlands – rights that
non-indigenous Canadians do not have. Protecting such rights for one provides
the protection of such rights for all. (water
song)
As
a Resident, Taxpayer and Voter it is up to you decide how other Canadians (and thus
yourself) should be treated by our government.
See
BC First Nations - Wet’suwet’en
protests
Specific Issues
Alberta’s oil sands
Fracking in New Brunswick
(Elsipogtog)
Muskrat Falls, Labrador
Ontario’s Ring of Fire
First Nations News –
British Columbia (BC)
Site C (BC)
USA’s Dakota Access
Pipeline (DAPL) / Standing Rock
Attawapiskat First Nation
An
isolated First Nation located in Kenora District in northern Ontario at the
mouth of the Attawapiskat River on James Bay, the community came to wider
attention around 2014 for it’s crucial state of poverty. With De Beers diamond
mine 90 kms away, and a perceived surplus of government handouts, Attawapiskat
became the posterchild for Canada’s failure at supporting indigenous
populations.
Website:
http://www.attawapiskat.org/ / Wikipedia
News - Attawapiskat
Source
Benny Forest
Located
an hour’s drive north of Sudbury on the ancestral lands and territorial hunting
grounds of the Anishnawbek, the forest is being clear-cut by the logging giant
EACOM Timber Corporation with Northshore Forest Inc. and Vermilion Forest Management
Company Limited, and aerially sprayed with toxic herbicides. Protests
against clear cutting have been undertaken since Spring 2015. MNR approval
on April 1, 2010 to 2020.
Nairn
Centre sawmill employs about 160 people.
Logging
is targeted on approximately 800 hectares (~2,000 acres) or 8 square kilometres
of forest up to the Spanish River.
Local
First Nations cite endangered species, old growth, historical and current
cultural use, and archeological interest. Clear-cutting will make the area
poisoned and uninhabitable. Clear cutting also jeopardizes a local business,
Camp Eagle Nest (www.campeaglenest.com), that is endeavouring to
pass First Nations culture to the next generation.
News - Benny Forest
Opposition:
facebook – Save the Benny
Forest
Gogama, Mattagami First Nation
Gogama
is located 190 km north of Sudbury. On Saturday,
March 7, 2015 a train carrying 94 cars of Alberta crude oil, rolled through
Gogama and then about 4 kms away, 35 cars jumped the tracks and caught fire.
Now
sheens of oil are commonly reported on Gogama's Makami River as well as
Lake Minisinakwa, on which the town is built.
"The
clean-up shouldn't be determined by what MOE feels is satisfactory, the
clean-up should be determined by the community members and what's satisfactory
to them. Because we're the ones that have to live here." Chad Boissoneau,
Band Councillor, Mattagami First Nation
There
is a reluctance to talk about the problem too much outside of Gogama for fear
that it will hurt the tourism (fishing) industry. (article)
News - Gogama
Grassy Narrows
Grassy
Narrows is the site of the longest running native logging blockade in Canadian
history - an ongoing grassroots action which recently celebrated its 11th
anniversary. Grassy Narrows youth, elders, women, and land-users put their
bodies on the line to stop logging trucks from passing. At the end of
2013, the Ontario government approved another decade of clearcut logging in the
Grassy Narrows Territory against the will of this Indigenous community.
The community is already struggling with the long-term health impacts of
mercury poisoning. The plan sets out a schedule to clearcut much of what
little mature forest remains on Grassy Narrows Territory after decades of large-scale
industrial logging.
For
more information, click here.
Moose Cree First Nation
Click
here for more information.
Shoal Lake
Until
1906, Winnipeg used water from many sources including well, rain and shipped
water and was suffering a host of water-related problems (fire and disease) and
ricocheting from one public health crisis to another. In 1906 Winnipeg
purchased the Shoal Lake bed and lands from the federal government to construct
a cement aqueduct. The
reserve community of Shoal Lake was cut off and made into an artificial island.
Shoal
Lake 40 First Nation, a reserve near Winnipeg straddling the Ontario-Manitoba
border, lives under one of the longest boil-water advisories in Canada.
In
June 2019 the community celebrated the opening of "Freedom Road", its
first and only permanent road access to the mainland, which opened the door for
garbage removal, emergency and postal services.
UPDATE:
September 2019 Work begins on the new Shoal Lake 40 water treatment system.
Expected in December 2020. (source)
News - Shoal Lake
NEWS – General
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Date
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Source
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Title
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Comment
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2021-12-22
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thestar.com
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'We
are ecstatic': Scugog Island First Nation lifts 13-year drinking water
advisory
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Chris Hall
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2020-11-10
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Netnewsledger.com
(Manitoba)
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Tragic Day for Children in Care –
Province of Manitoba passes legislation denying children’s rights
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|
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2020-06-04
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CBC News
(New Brunswick)
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Indigenous woman killed by
Edmundston, N.B., police during wellness check
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Shane Magee
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2020-04-18
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CBC.ca
(Manitoba)
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22-year-old man dead after 3rd
Winnipeg police shooting in 10 days
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Caitlyn
Gowriluk, Dana Hatherly
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2020-04-09
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Aptnews.ca
(Manitoba)
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16-year-old Winnipeg girl shot and
killed by police
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Brittany
Hobson
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2020-02-25
|
Globe and
Mail
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Afternoon commuter trains disrupted,
cancelled after fresh rail protests near Toronto
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Molly
Hayes, Oliver Moore
AO News – BC First Nations
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2020-02-07
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TheNarwhal.ca
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Industry, government pushed to
abolish Aboriginal title at issue in Wet’suwet’en stand-off, docs reveal
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Martin
Lukacs, Shiri Pasternak
AO News – BC First Nations
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2019-10-02
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Northern
Ontario Business
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OPINION: The Ring of Fire bulldozer
is here. Will it work?
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Charles
Cirtwill
AO News – Ring of Fire
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2019-09-08
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National
Observer
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First Nations given max compensation
for Ottawa's child-welfare discrimination
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Mia Rabson
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2019-07-18
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CBC News
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Tensions rise in Oka as mayor speaks
of being 'surrounded' by Mohawks
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2019-07-11
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CBC News
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Developer offers to give land back
to First Nation where Oka Crisis happened
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Jessica
Deer
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2019-04-23
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Owen Sound
Sun Times
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$80-billion Bruce Peninsula land
claim trial to begin Thursday
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Scott Dunn
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2019-03-27
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CBC News
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Richmond Hill, Ont., residents upset
after council rejects land acknowledgment proposal
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Nick
Boisvert
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2019-03-24
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Globe and
Mail
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Opinion: Doug Ford’s repeal of the
Far North Act won’t gain the respect of Indigenous communities
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Dayna Scott
AO News – Ring of Fire
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2019-02-26
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Northern
Ontario Business
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Nishnawbe Aski Nation on board with
Far North Act repeal
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2018-10-11
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Macleans
Magazine
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Opinion: The Supreme Court has just
gutted the Crown’s duty to consult First Nations
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Pam
Palmater
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2018-10-04
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TheGuardian.com
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While Nestlé extracts millions of
litres from their land, residents have no drinking water
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Alexandra
Shimo
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2018-08-01
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Macleans
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The colonial history behind B.C. Day
that can make us all proud
|
Terry
Glavin
- a bit of
obscure history (BC)
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2018-06-30
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TheNarwhal.ca
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‘Nowhere else to turn’: First
Nations inundated by oilsands projects face impossible choices
|
Judith
Lavoie
AO News - Alberta
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2018-06-02
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Northern
Ontario Business
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Start of environmental process for
Ring of Fire roads anger isolated First Nations
|
Ian Ross
AO News – Ring of Fire
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3018-05-30
|
Globe
and Mail
|
Ontario, First Nations
take giant step toward reconciliation with revenue-sharing deal
|
Ken
Coates, Stephen Crozier
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2018-04-29
|
CBC News
|
Our home on
Native-Land.ca: website lets users explore Indigenous ancestral territories
|
Nic
Meloney
-
new website
|
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2018-03-21
|
Globe
and Mail
|
Updated: Saskatchewan
First Nation wins $4.5-million from federal government, 131 years later
|
Laura
Stone
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2018-03-07
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CBC News
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Northern Ontario First
Nation now has clean drinking water after 14 years
|
Matt
Prokopchuk
-
Slate Falls
|
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2018-02-02
|
Globe
and Mail
|
Supreme Court rules band
in B.C. can claim compensation for land theft during 1860s gold rush
|
Sean
Fine
|
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2018-01-19
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CBC News
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Trudeau becomes first
sitting PM to visit northern Ontario reserve
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John
Paul Tasker
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2018-01-17
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CBC News
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Treaty annuity case a
'historical landmark' for Ontario First Nations
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Waubgeshig
Rice
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2018-01-14
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CTV News
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Supreme Court case could
lead to First Nations role in law-making
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The
Canadian Press
|
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2017-12-06
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OpenDemocracy.net
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Why does Canada spy on
its own indigenous communities?
|
Lex
Gill and Cara Zwibel
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2017-12-06
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Atpnnews.ca
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‘It’s all based on
agreements’ why OI leasing staff are being targeted by CRA – but not AFN
|
Annette
Francis
-
OI Leasing
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2017-11-10
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CBC News Hamilton
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Indigenous deer hunt in
Dundas Valley starts next week
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2017-09-27
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CBC News BC
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Court of appeal rules
against Kinder Morgan, federal government on existing Trans Mountain pipeline
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AO Kinder Morgan News
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2017-07-26
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CBC
News
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Death of First Nations
man handcuffed and stepped on by police was accidental, inquest says
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Jody
Porter
-
Romeo
Wesley
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2017-08-18
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Aptn
National News (Manitoba)
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Norway House woman tired of leaky
roof, chief blames lack of funding
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Shaneen
Robinson-Desjarlais
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2017-07-18
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National
Post
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Ontario court halts quarry project
over lack of consultation with First Nations
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- T & P
Hayes Ltd.
AO Aggregate News
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2017-07-15
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CBC BC
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Forget Smokey the Bear:
How First Nation fire wisdom is key to megafire prevention
|
Yvette
Brend
AO BC Oil & Gas
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2017-07-14
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Aptnnews.ca
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Canada releases 10 “principles” on
government’s relationship with Indigenous peoples
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2017-07-05
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CBC Edmonton
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Alberta spends $7M to bring drinking
water to Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation northwest of Edmonton
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Anna
Desmarais
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2017-06-12
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CBC Newfoundland & Labrador
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Senators blast N.L. government about
Beatrice Hunter case
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2017-06-09
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CBC
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'I Know You're Sorry:' one
Anishinaabe MC and poet's response to all of Canada's apologies
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Leonard
Sumner
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2017-06-05
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Maclean’s
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The Canada most people don’t see
|
Scott
Gilmore
|
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2017-05-31
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CBC
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Indigenous protesters ordered to pay
oil giant thousands over pipeline legal battle
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Adam Carter
AO Oil & Gas
- Todd
Williams, Wayne Hill
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2017-04-26
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Tbnewswatch.com
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KWG and Marten Falls propose Ring of
Fire partnership
|
Gary Rinne
AO Ring of Fire
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2017-04-25
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Tvo.org
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How Canada set up
Aboriginal treaties to keep First Nations down
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TVO Current
Affairs
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2017-04-03
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Dailycaller.com
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Opinion: Anti-Pipeline
Tribes Worry Enviros Are ‘Tokenizing’ American Indians
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Chris White
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2017-03-31
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NOW Toronto
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Indigenous leaders issue
call to action: here's what Canada must do to make amends for residential
schools tragedy
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Senator
Murray Sinclair, Phil Fontaine, Dawn Lavell-Harvard
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2017-03-02
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pressprogress.ca
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Millions promised for
Indigenous kids is subsidizing mining companies, internal documents show
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2017-02-15
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CBC Thunder Bay
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No mental health support
available for First Nations artist who died in jail, chief says
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Jody Porter
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2017-02-14
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APTN
News
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Canada breached its
fiduciary duty to care for Indigenous children swept up by 60s Scoop
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2017-01-09
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TIME
(USA)
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Dakota Access Pipeline
Supporter Becomes Chair of Senate Indian Affairs Committee
|
Zak Cheney
Rice
AO Info – DAPL
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2016-12-29
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NativeNewsOnline.net
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This Day in History:
December 29, 1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre
|
Levi
Rickert
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2016-12-06
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CBC News Windsor
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Standing Rock supporters
shut down Hwy 401 overpass in London, Ont.
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AO Info – DAPL
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2016-11-15
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CBC Manitoba
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Shamattawa still in crisis weeks
after fire destroyed lone grocery store
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Bryce Hoye
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2016-11-14
|
CBC
|
Contamination forces Ontario First
Nation to close school, fly in bottled water
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Weagamow
First Nation
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2016-11-02
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Bsnorrell.blogspot.ca
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Morton County Dumps Eagle Feathers,
Sacred Items, on Ground, of Treaty Camp
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Video link
AO Info – DAPL
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2016-10-15
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Thespec.com
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Confederacy warns province about new
housing project proposed for Caledonia
|
Joel
OpHardt
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Caledonia, Six Nations, Haudenosaunee Confederacy, McClung Properties
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2016-10-07
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CBC News
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Thanksgiving Monday protest planned
over cleanup from 2015 Gogama train derailment
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AO Info – Rail News
AO Info –
Water News
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2016-09-28
|
CBC Nova Scotia
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Potlotek's chief goes to Halifax to
push for solution to community's water crisis
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Hal Higgins
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2016-09-23
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DemocracyNow.org
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50 Tribes & First Nations Sign
Treaty to Fight Tar Sands Pipelines
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2016-09-23
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WSAU
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UN wants Dakota Access Pipeline
construction halted
|
Jim Monk
AO News – Dakota Access Pipeline
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2016-09-22
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Treatyalliance.org
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Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands
Expansion
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The Treaty
is an expression of Indigenous Law prohibiting the pipelines/trains/tankers
that will feed the expansion of the Alberta Tar Sands
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2016-09-15
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Daily
Commercial News (Yukon)
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Mine dispute could leave dozens
homeless
|
The
Canadian Press
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2016-09-14
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theRealNewsNetwork.com
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The Struggle to Defeat Dakota Access
Pipeline Goes Global
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AO News - Dakota Access Pipeline
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2016-09-08
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CBC.ca (USA)
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Standing Rock protest grows with
thousands opposing North Dakota pipeline
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Tim
Fontaine
#NoDAPL
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2016-09-08
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Santa
Monica Observer (USA)
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Oil Company Destroys Burial Sites in
Holiday Sneak Attack
|
Liz Miller
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2016-08-19
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Northern
Ontario Business
|
Ring of Miner junior needs to mend
fences with First Nations
|
Ian Ross
- Matawa
First Nations
AO Ring of Fire
|
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2016-08-17
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NetNewsLedger.com
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Ring of Fire MOU Causing Concern in
Marten Falls First Nation
|
AO Ring of Fire
|
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2016-08-17
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CBC News
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'Cease and desist,' Neskantaga First
Nation tells Ring of Fire mining company
|
Jody Porter
Link to Ring of Fire Overview
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2016-08-15
|
National
Post
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Distrust, racism loom over police
probe into death of First Nations man
|
Joseph
Brean
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Saskatchewan
|
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2016-07-21
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DavidSuzuki.org
(BC)
|
Industrial damage threatens
Blueberry River's way of life
|
David
Suzuki, Rachel Plotkin
- AO News - BC’s Site C proposal
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2016-07-10
|
Huffington
Post
|
Gitxsan First Nation Evicts CN Rail,
Logging Companies From Its Land
|
Dene Moore
|
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2016-07-08
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Aptn.ca
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Mi’kmaq band asks for emergency
order to protect at-risk salmon from natural gas project
|
Trina
Roache
- Nova
Scotia
- first
time Cdn Dept of Fisheries & Oceans is asked to protect aquatic species at risk
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2016-07-07
|
National
Post
|
Mikinaks call themselves Quebec’s
newest aboriginal community, others are calling them a fraud
|
Graeme
Hamilton
|
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2016-06-01
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Windspeaker.com
|
Blog: The shame of skirt shaming -
June 2016
|
Drew Hayden
Taylor
|
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2016-05-20
|
Global News
|
Land dispute brewing between Oka and
Quebec Mohawk community
|
Felicia
Parrillo
|
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2016-05-19
|
Theobserver.ca
|
Plans for natural gas on island were
announced a year ago
|
David Gough
- Walpole
Island
AO News - Oil & Gas
|
|
2016-05-10
|
CBC News
|
Canada officially adopts UN
declaration on rights of Indigenous Peoples
|
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2016-04-29
|
Brantford
Expositor
|
Deal on housing project
|
Michael-Allan
Marion
-
Caledonia, Six Nations
|
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2016-04-25
|
Toronto
Star
|
A decade of despair in the
Pikangikum First Nation
|
Allan Woods
|
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2016-04-15
|
CBC News
|
Suicide crisis protests at
Indigenous Affairs offices spread across Canada
|
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2016-04-13
|
CBC News
|
Opinion: 21 things you may not know
about the Indian Act
|
Bob Joseph
|
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2016-04-12
|
CBC News
|
Indian Act turns 140, but few
celebrating
|
Tim
Fontaine
|
|
2016-03-30
|
TwoRowTimes.com
|
McClung development galvanizing Six
Nations
|
Jim Windle
-
Caledonia, Six Nations
|
|
2016-03-24
|
Reportca.net
|
Children treated for skin conditions
on troubled Ontario reserve
|
Metro News
Canada
-
Kashechewan
- eczema,
scabies and possibly a case of impetigo
|
|
2016-03-23
|
HuffingtonPost.com
|
Kashechewan Evacuation: Kids With
Rash Will Be Removed From Community
|
The
Canadian Press
|
|
2016-03-21
|
OutdoorCanada.ca
|
Why Ontario’s Algonquin Land Claim
is bad news for conservation
|
Phil
Morlock
|
|
2016-03-21
|
Muskoka411.com
|
Officials to evacuate Kashechewan
First Nation kids due to rashes, open sores
|
Kirsty
Kirkup, The Canadian Press
|
|
2016-03-20
|
Aljazeera.com
|
Canada's Aboriginals go to Supreme
Court
|
Jillian
Kestler-D’Amours
- Clyde
River
|
|
2016-03-09
|
CTV News (Manitoba)
|
Manitoba First Nation declares state
of emergency over suicide epidemic
|
The
Canadian Press
|
|
2016-03-03
|
Winnipeg
Free Press
|
Chiefs say proposed Algonquin land
claim deal illegal, fraudulent
|
|
|
2016-02-17
|
BBC (UK)
|
Questions over number of missing
indigenous women in Canada
|
|
|
2016-02-04
|
Vancouver
Sun
|
B.C. union joins First Nations
vowing to use law to fight pipelines like Northern Gateway
|
Laura Kane
|
|
2016-01-27
|
National
Observer
|
Indigenous peoples and climate to be
factored in federal pipeline reviews
|
Mike De
Souza
|
|
2016-01-14
|
CBC News
|
Prison watchdog says more than a
quarter of federal inmates are aboriginal people
|
|
|
2016-01-13
|
National
Observer
|
B.C. First Nations win court
challenge against B.C. over Enbridge pipeline
|
Jenny Uechi
AO News – Oil & Gas: Enbridge
Northern Gateway
|
|
2016-01-12
|
CBC News
|
First Nations student deaths
inquest: Build schools on reserve, parents say
|
Jody Porter
|
|
2015-12-29
|
Indian
Country Today Media Network
|
Year of Clout: 10 Stories of
Indigenous Environmental Influence in 2015
|
|
|
2015-12-17
|
CTV News
|
Map: Water advisories for First
Nations communities in Canada
|
|
|
2015-12-08
|
ABC News
(Australia)
|
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces
inquiry into missing, murdered indigenous women
|
AFP
|
|
2015-11-26
|
Globe and
Mail
|
Action needed to protect indigenous
women from serial killers, minister says
|
Kathryn
Blaze Baum
|
|
2015-11-23
|
CBC News
|
Audio - First Nations have their
voices heard in a new Ring of Fire documentary (7 mins)
|
AO Ring of Fire
|
|
2015-11-20
|
It takes
Roots
|
First Ever Indigenous Women’s Treaty
Signed of “North and South”
|
|
|
2015-11-18
|
CBC News
|
First Nation student deaths inquest
examines 2005 death of Curran Strang
|
- inquest
into deaths of 7 First Nations students in Thunder Bay between 2000 and 2011
|
|
2015-10-21
|
National Post
|
Comment: Kent McNeil: Stop
wasting money fighting aboriginals
|
Kent McNeil
|
|
2015-10-21
|
CTV News
|
'Harper awoke a sleeping giant':
First Nations break election records
|
Nicole
Gibillini
|
|
2015-10-14
|
CBC News Manitoba
|
Bad water: 'Third World' conditions
on First Nations in Canada
|
Joanne
Levasseur, Jacques Marcoux
|
|
2015-10-07
|
Macleans.ca
|
Why can’t we get clean water to
First Nation reserves?
|
Cathy Gulli
|
|
2015-10-05
|
WagingNonViolence.org
(USA)
|
Lakota women and ranchers lead
charge to break silence against uranium mine
|
Suree
Towfighnia
- Nebraska
|
|
2015-09-30
|
Financial Post
|
Eagle Spirit Energy’s pipeline plan
in northern B.C. gets backing of First Nations chiefs
|
Geoffrey
Morgan
- Aquilini
Group
- Fort
McMurray, AL to Prince Rupert, BC
AO News - Oil & Gas
|
|
2015-09-08
|
CBC News
|
B.C. First Nation gets Nexen
fracking water licence overturned
|
|
|
2015-09-07
|
OilVoice
|
Fort Nelson First Nation wins legal
challenge stopping Nexen water license for fracking in British Columbia
|
|
|
2015-09-02
|
National
Observer
|
Onion Lake Cree Nation file for UN
action against Canada
|
Elizabeth
McSheffrey
- First
Nations Financial Transparency Act
|
|
2015-09-01
|
Hamilton
Spectator / Thespec.com
|
Newly crowned Mrs. Universe calls
for First Nations to vote Harper out
|
Peter
Edwards
|
|
2015-08-29
|
Vancouver
Observer
|
RCMP say they have no intention of
"taking down" Unist'ot'en Camp
|
Elizabeth
McSheffrey
|
|
2015-08-28
|
CBC News
|
RCMP planning mass arrests at
pipeline protest camp, northern B.C chiefs fear
|
Betsy
Trumpener
|
|
2015-08-27
|
Government
of Ontario
|
New Agreement marks Step Forward in
Connecting First Nation Communities to the Electricity Grid
|
News
release
|
|
2015-08-24
|
Anishinabek
News
|
Chiefs of Ontario sign historic
Political Accord with the province
|
|
|
2015-08-19
|
TwoRowTimes.com
|
LTE: HDI a no show
|
Cheyenne
Williams
|
|
2015-06-22
|
Montreal
Gazette Magazine
|
Big decisions for Akwesasne Mohawks
after Ottawa offers $240 million for land
|
Giuseppe
Valiante
|
|
2015-06-11
|
CBC News
|
Police break First Nations woman's
shoulder, charge her with assault
|
-
Mishkeegogamang First Nation
north of
Thunder Bay
|
|
2015-06-11
|
Simcoe.com
|
Editorial: Salt on the wound
|
|
|
2015-06-10
|
Aljazeera
|
Canada’s Lost Women
|
|
|
2015-06-06
|
National
Post
|
Conrad Black: Canada’s treatment of
aboriginals was shameful, but it was not genocide
|
Conrad
Black
|
|
2015-06-02
|
Toronto
Star
|
Canada’s residential schools
cultural genocide, Truth and Reconciliation commission says
|
Joanna
Smith
|
|
2015-05-03
|
TwoRowTimes.com
|
Leaked documents prompt declaration
to dismantle HDI: launch investigation
|
Nahnda
Garlow
- Haudenosaunee
Development Institute (HDI)
|
|
2015-04-10
|
CNW
Newswire
|
First Nation Chiefs oppose Noront's
purchase of Cliffs' assets in the Ring of Fire
|
AO Ring of Fire
|
|
2015-03-24
|
NetNewsLedger
|
“A small victory for our First
Nation, and for all First Nations”
|
James
Murray
|
|
2015-03-24
|
CBC News
|
Ring of Fire: Ontario has 'gun to
our head' First Nation chief says
|
Jody Porter
AO Ring of Fire
|
|
2015-03-04
|
Globe and
Mail
|
First Nations seek injunction
barring development in Fort St. John region
|
Mark Hume
- first
lawsuit based on cumulative impact of numerous developments
|
|
2015-02-14
|
Huffington
Post
|
There Is A Way To Fix First Nations
Education And This Is How It Starts
|
Michael
Bolen
|
|
2015-02-14
|
Toronto
Star
|
Ottawa sends $2M in bottled water to
First Nation
|
Joanna
Smith
|
|
2015-02-09
|
Huffington
Post
|
Sixties Scoop: Aboriginal Adoptees
Sue Federal Government
|
Chinta
Puxley
|
|
2015-01-30
|
APTN
National News
|
Credit card proves extravagant
spending at now-broke Aboriginal-owned investment company
|
Tlamirande
- Tribal
Councils Investment Group (TCIG), Allan McLeod
|
|
2015-01-27
|
BC Local
News
|
Kitselas signs up for three LNG
pipeline deals
|
-
TransCanada
|
|
2015-01-27
|
APTN
National News
|
People furious over report of chiefs
per diem rate: ‘double dipping has to stop’
|
Trina
Roache
- Nova
Scotia
|
|
2015-01-13
|
APTN
National News
|
Aboriginal organizations hit with
$60 million worth of cuts, Inuit faced steepest reduction: AFN analysis
|
Jorge
Barrera
|
|
2015-01-08
|
CBC News
|
Mountie takes aboriginal woman home
from jail cell to pursue relationship
|
Holly Moore
|
|
2015-01-07
|
Vancouver
Sun
|
More First Nations signing on in
support of LNG projects in northern B.C.
|
Gordon
Hoekstra
- 8 of 20
First Nations affected (40%)
|
|
2015-01-07
|
Anishinabek
News
|
Sisters host ‘Toxic Tours’ of their
home in Canada’s Chemical Valley
|
Rick
Garrick
- Sarnia
|
|
2015-01-02
|
Briarpatch
Magazine
|
On the Front Lines of the Great
Lakes
|
Toban
Black, Sonia Grant
|
|
2014-12-20
|
Coop media
de Montreal
|
URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT: Punishment
for Failure to Submit to First Nations Financial Transparency Act?
|
Barriere
Lake Solidarity
|
|
2014-12-14
|
CBC News Sudbury
|
Transparency Act : Resource company
payments to First Nations unveiled
|
|
|
2014-12-11
|
TheRecord.com
|
“Canada is Indian land” new chief
declares
|
- Assembly
of First Nations, new Chief, Perry Bellegarde
|
|
2014-11-26
|
Rabble.ca
|
Stephen Harper and the myth of the
crooked Indian
|
Pamela
Palmater
|
|
2014-11-24
|
Timmins
Times
|
Woman speaks out against Grand Chief
|
Jennifer
Wabano, Peawanuck
|
|
2014-11-19
|
APTN
National News
|
Plenty riding on whether Supreme
Court will hear appeal for off reserve Aboriginal peoples
|
Steve
Rennie
|
|
2014-11-19
|
EcoWatch /
Anastasia Pantsios
|
Native Americans Arrested Following
Keystone XL Pipeline Vote
|
Anastasia
Pantsios
|
|
2014-11-11
|
AZCentral.com
|
Remembering the last of the original
Navajo Code Talkers
|
Betty Reid
|
|
2014-11-05
|
Youtube/AJ+
|
How To Stop An Oil And Gas Pipeline:
The Unist'ot'en Camp Resistance (10 mins)
|
|
|
2014-10-31
|
Westcoast
native News
|
Nisga’a Nation Signs Pipeline
Benefits Agreement
|
John
Crawford
-
TransCanada subsidiary
|
|
2014-10-16
|
Vancouver
Observer
|
Hupacasath First Nation puts China
on notice over FIPA
|
Jenny Uechi
|
|
2014-10-07
|
CTV News
|
Pesticides linked to bee deaths pose
'massive' ecological threat, watchdog warns
|
Keith
Leslie
-
Aamjiwnaang First Nation near Sarnia
|
|
2014-10-06
|
Vice.com
|
Indigenous Canadians Are Blockading
a Mine to Protest Pollution
|
Sarah Berman
- Imperial
Metals, Red Chris copper & gold mine, Iskut, BC
|
|
2014-10-02
|
Huffington
Post
|
Canada Is The Only UN Member To
Reject Landmark Indigenous Rights Document
|
Zi-Ann Lum
|
|
2014-10-01
|
Aptnnews.ca
|
Ontario tax exemption: Your rights
as a First Nation citizen
|
Kevin
Restoule
|
|
2014-09-11
|
Vancouver
Sun (B.C.)
|
Tsilhqot’in set to declare site of
New Prosperity mine a tribal park
|
Larry Pynn
|
|
2014-09-02
|
CBC News
|
Government now open to roundtable on
missing and murdered aboriginal women
|
Kristen
Everson
|
|
2014-08-20
|
Globe and
Mail
|
Tina Fontaine’s death shows how
little is being done for indigenous women
|
Dr. Sarah
Hunt
|
|
2014-06-27
|
Financial
Post
|
Pipeline prospects take a hit as
Supreme Court grants land title to B.C. First Nation
|
Dwight
Newman
|
|
2014-06-26
|
CBC News
|
Tsilhqot'in First Nation granted
B.C. title claim in Supreme Court ruling
|
- landmark
decision
|
|
2014-06-10
|
Toronto
Star
|
Opinon: Canada starved
aboriginal people into submission: Goar
|
Carol Goar
|
|
2014-05-26
|
Earth First
Journal
|
Sexual Assault in the Bakken Shale
“Man Camps”
|
Damon
Buckley
|
|
2014-05-02
|
Wawatay
News
|
Mushkegowuk Council, communities
seeking Ring of Fire opportunities
|
AO Ring of Fire
|
|
2014-05-01
|
APTN
|
OPP spent 3 years reviewing missing,
murdered Indigenous women files in search of potential serial killer
|
Kenneth
Jackson
|
|
2014-04-29
|
CTV News
|
String of youth suicides in remote
Ont. First Nations community
|
|
|
2014-04-29
|
David
Suzuki Foundation
|
Fourth World Living Conditions in
the Ring of Fire: Call to Action
|
AO Ring of Fire
|
|
2014-04-24
|
APTN
|
Federal court ruling could affect
First Nation organizations across Canada
|
|
|
2014-03-19
|
CBC News
|
Via Rail blockade by First Nations
that halted Montreal-Toronto trains ends
|
- bringing
attention to missing and murdered aboriginal women
|
|
2014-03-03
|
Whig
|
Mohawks set up roadblock in
Tyendinaga
|
- bringing
attention to missing and murdered aboriginal women
-
Shannonville Road
- Quinte News update
|
|
2014-02-01
|
WC Native
News
|
Black bear accidentally mulched by
oil and gas company
|
Derrick
|
|
2014-01-20
|
Net News
Ledger
|
Matawa Students Start Ring of Fire
Training Program
|
AO Ring of Fire
|
|
2014-01-14
|
EcoWatch /
TckTckTck
|
Neil Young Stands With First Nations
on Anti-Tar Sands Tour
|
Emily Saari
|
|
2014-01-07
|
Edmonton
Journal
|
First Nations struggle to save
traditions while profiting from boom (with video)
|
Marty
Klinkenberg
“Do I
die by starvation or by poison” @3:25 mins
|
|
2014-01-07
|
Aptn
|
Confusion in Driftpile First Nation
over Enbridge agreement inclusion
|
AO News - Oil & Gas
|
|
2014-01-04
|
CBC News
|
Ring of Fire boom may strain First
Nations services, memo warns
|
Canadian
Press
|
|
2013-12-30
|
CBC
|
Top 5 Aboriginal stories of 2013 as
per CBC
|
|
|
2013-12-23
|
Youtube /
the 1491s
|
Video: The Indian Store (4 mins)
|
|
|
2013-12-14
|
IC Magazine
|
For Land and Life: 25 stories of
Indigenous resilience that you might’ve missed in 2013
|
John Ahni
Schertow
|
|
2013-12-12
|
Northern
Journal
|
Alberta First Nation plans second
roadblock to fracking site
|
Meagan
Wohlberg
|
|
2013-12-09
|
WC Native
News
|
No cause for Celebration on one of
the largest settlements in Canada’s history
|
Jennifer
O’Brien
|
|
2013-12-09
|
WC Native
News
|
Landmark $120m First Nations deal a
go
|
Randy
Richmond
|
|
2013-12-06
|
Ernst v.
EnCana
|
Chiefs of Ontario say no to fracking
anywhere in the province
|
Tom Sasvari
w/Michael Erskine
|
|
2013-11-30
|
Aaron
Paquette Network
|
Is There a Future for Idle No More?
|
Aaron
Paquette
#INM
#idlenomore Indigenous Nationhood Movement / Nations Rising (#INMvmnt)
|
|
2013-11-28
|
WC Native
News (Alberta)
|
Lubicon Nation sets up camp on
unceded lands, Driven to enforce their Law
|
|
|
2013-11-28
|
CBC Sudbury
|
Audio: Cleaning up the old
Long Lake Gold Mine site in Sudbury
|
- Long
Lake Stewardship Committee
-
leaking arsenic for years – target 2015 cleanup
-
Whitefish Lake First Nation on water restrictions
|
|
2013-11-22
|
EcoWatch /
Donna Lisenby
|
First Nations Furious Over
Mishandling of Canada’s Largest Coal Slurry Spill
|
Donna
Lisenby
|
|
2013-11-09
|
Popular
Resistance
|
Noam Chomsky: Indigenous People Are
In The Lead
|
Michael
Keefer
|
|
2013-11-06
|
CBC New Brunswick
|
Audio: Sharing Resources (15
mins)
|
Interview
with lawyer Bill Gallagher
re:
Elsipogtog
|
|
2013-10-31
|
Indigenous
Action Media
|
Indigenous Elders and Medicine
Peoples Council Statement on Fukushima
|
|
|
2013-10-26
|
Aptn
National News
|
Death threats, brandished weapons,
forcible confinement triggered raid: RCMP
|
Jorge
Barrera
|
|
2013-10-21
|
Toronto Sun
|
There’s no excuse for violent
protests
|
Jerry Agar
|
|
2013-10-21
|
Toronto Sun
|
Our energy under attack
|
Ezra Levant,
QMI Agency
|
|
2013-10-21
|
Toronto Sun
|
The truth about Elsipogtog
|
Anthony
Furey, QMI Agency
|
|
2013-10-21
|
AWARE-Ontario.ca
|
Oil & Gas News 2013 – coverage of protest against
fracking in New Brunswick
|
|
|
2013-10-21
|
Indian
Country Today (USA)
|
The Heresy of Capitalism Threatens
Well Being in Indian Country
|
Dina
Gilio-Whitaker
|
|
2013-10-19
|
National
Post
|
Rex Murphy: A rude dismissal of
Canada’s generosity
|
Rex Murphy
|
|
2013-10-18
|
Saultstar.com
|
Aboriginal affairs minister stresses
'solid working relationships' as Ontario communities rally in solidarity with
New Brunswick anti-fracking protesters
|
Michael
Purvis
|
|
2013-10-18
|
Toronto
Star
|
McKay calls for calm after violent
anti-fracking protest spreads across the country
|
Solidarity
with Rexton, New Brunswick
|
|
2013-10-17
|
CBC
News
|
Video: Albino moose honoured
by Mi’kmaq
|
spirit
moose
|
|
2013-10-06
|
Indian Country Today (USA)
|
Breaking the Cycle of
Poverty and Crime in Indian Country
|
Duane
Champagne
|
|
2013-10-01
|
Submedia.tv
|
Video: Kahsatstenhsera:
Indigenous Resistance to Tar Sands Pipelines (10mins)
|
Line 9 and
Energy East
[Kahsatstenhsera
(gah-sad-sdanh-se-ra) is a Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk) word that means Strength in
Unity.]
|
|
2013-09-28
|
CBC
News
|
Alberta orders lake drained
to contain bitumen leak
|
Cold Lake,
Alberta
|
|
2013-09-27
|
MiningWatch Canada
|
THE BELL TOLLS FOR FREE
ENTRY IN CANADA: Legal Victory for Yukon First Nation Will Have Implications
Across the Country
|
|
|
2013-08-28
|
Global Research
|
Canada: On Missing
Aboriginal Women
|
John Bart
Gerald
|
|
2013-08-23
|
Vice.com
|
First Nations Women Are
Being Sold into the Sex Trade On Ships Along Lake Superior
|
Dave Dean
|
|
2013-08-16
|
Globe and Mail
|
BC First Nation renews
battle to prevent open pit mining
|
Kim Nursall
|
|
2013-08-12
|
Globe and Mail
|
Lake Babine sockeye fishery
at risk of unprecedented closure
|
Canadian Press
|
|
2013-08-09
|
Globe and Mail
|
Wake up to the aboriginal
comeback
|
John Ralson Saul
|
|
2013-08-09
|
Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign
|
Two Row Declaration of
Intent
|
Alternative to assimilation
|
|
2013-08-07
|
WC Native News
|
Siksika Nation: Pretty
well-being colonized
|
High River, Alberta
|
|
2013-07-19
|
Globe and Mail
|
When Canada used hunger to
clear the west
|
James Daschuk
- Treaty 6
|
|
2013-07-01
|
Vancouver Observer
|
Happy Canada Day? Learning
about Treaties in tar sands territory
|
Emma Pullman
|
|
2013-06-28
|
Rabble
|
Yukon Council of First
Nations declares territory to be frack free
|
George Lessard
|
|
2013-05-14
|
CBC
|
How Quebec Cree avoided the fate of
Attawapiskat
|
Terry
Milewski
|
|
2013-04-27
|
Bayshore Broadcasting
|
Anglers Rally at Owen Sound Harbour
|
Jon Meyer
|
|
2013-04-26
|
Bayshore Broadcasting
|
Protest Planned Over Fish Deal
|
Kevin
Bernard
|
|
2013-04-25
|
Owen Sound Sun Times
|
Anglers to protest against province
|
Rob Gowan
|
|
2013-03-06
|
People’s World
|
Rare disease suddenly arises on
Navajo Reservation
|
Albert
Bender
|
|
2013-01-15
|
Resource Investing News
|
First Nations Consultation: A
Crucial Step for Mining Companies
|
Chad Fraser
Legal
duty to consult rests with the Crown, not industry
|
|
2013-01-11
|
The Gazette
|
Gaspe-area First Nation expands
two-week-old railroad blockade
|
Christopher
Curtis
Mi’gmaq,
Listuguj reserve
#IdleNoMore
|
|
2013-01-08
|
Globe and Mail
|
Opinion: Natives don’t need
‘accountability.’ Show us the money
|
Jeffrey
Rath
|
|
2013-01-01
|
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Nation
|
Walk to Parliament Hill to say “NO”
to treaty violations
|
News
Release .pdf
|
|
2012-12-31
|
Union of BC Indian Chiefs
|
Standing for What is Right: Harper
Gov’t attacked First Nations Rights in 2012
|
News
Release - Opinion
This is
a rising grassroots movement ignited by the intransigence of the Harper
Government and it is a movement that Harper Government ignores at their
peril.
|
|
2012-12-20
|
Global Edmonton
|
Highway blockades part of Idle No
More demonstrations
|
Emily Mertz
Overview
of Bill C-45
|
|
2012-12-10
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âpihtawikosisân
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Idle No More
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2012-12-10
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Google
Documents by Fae Morning Bull, LLB
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Harper Government Unilateral federal
legislation imposing over First Nations:
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fmorningbull@hotmail.com
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2012-12-10
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Rabble.ca
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Idle No More: Non-Indigenous
responsibility to act
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Enough
is Enough
#IdleNoMore
www.idlenomore.com
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2012-07-03
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Vancouver
Sun
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This day in history: July 1,
1967
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Chief
Dan George
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2011-12-03
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CBC News
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Stop building junk on reserves, says
Mike Holmes
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Janet
Davison
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2009-12-17
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Youtube /
flamingwarbonnet
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Stuck in the Smoke Hole of our Tipi
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Shoshoni
Elder Oldhands’ original Xmas song
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1995-08-19
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CBC Television
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Gustafsen Lake, B.C. (3 mins)
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Gustafsen Lake Inside Out — How the
RCMP Really Works Part #1
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Striving to Understand
More Information:
Mapping
traditional territories: www.Native-Land.ca
Link
to Government of Ontario Map
of Ontario Treaties and Reserves
Colonialism
According
to www.dictionary.com colonialism is the control
or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or
people. It is the system or policy by which a nation maintains or
advocates such control or influence.
Elsipogtog, New Brunswick
Link to AWARE-Ontario
Elsipogtog, NB information
Reconciliation
What is the significance of
acknowledging the Indigenous land we stand on?
Taxation
The Idiot’s Guide to First
Nations Taxation
United Nations (UNDRIP)
United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) (.pdf)
For
more information and another perspective, see:
“I Know You’re Sorry” by
Leonard Sumner
Voisey
Bay, Labrador Canada
“Resource
Rulers: Fortune and Folly on Canada’s Road to Resources” by Bill Gallagher
Wab Kinew, Fort Rouge MP,
Manitoba – comments about water re: North Dakota pipeline protest (AO Info - DAPL)
“For
more than a century, Canadians have been accustomed to reports of terrible
housing conditions on reserves, unsafe drinking water, dismal educational
outcomes and, at least in Western Canada, prison populations disproportionally
stacked with aboriginal inmates. Aboriginal leaders and young people such as
those who embraced the Idle No More movement have been calling for Canadians to
fundamentally acknowledge the injustices and atrocities of the past and fix the
problems that keep indigenous Canadians from living the same quality of life as
their non-aboriginal neighbours.
As
the skeletons in our collective closet are exposed to the light, through the
work of Dr. Mosby and others, perhaps we will come to understand the
uncomfortable truths that modern Canada is founded upon – ethnic cleansing and
genocide – and push our leaders and ourselves to make a nation we can be proud
to call home.”
Dr.
James Daschuk (article)
“Nibwaakaawin—Wisdom:
To cherish knowledge is to know Wisdom. Wisdom is given by the Creator to be
used for the good of the people. In the Anishinaabe language, this word
expresses not only “wisdom,” but also means “prudence,” or “intelligence.” In
some communities, Gikendaasowin is used; in addition to “wisdom,” this word can
also mean “intelligence” or “knowledge.””
Pat
Johnson,
Facebook entry
“The
uncomfortable truth is that modern Canada is founded upon ethnic cleansing and
genocide.”
James
Daschuk, University of Regina (article)
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Disclaimer:
This information has been compiled through private amateur research for the
purpose of allowing the reader to make an informed and educated decision.
However, while the information is believed to be reliable, accuracy cannot be
guaranteed.
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A
https://awareontario.nfshost.com/AWARE-Ontario/News%20First%20Nations.htm
APPENDIX B
Eagle
feathers – are sacred to the First Nations’ culture. In Canada, First
Nations are given all usable eagle carcasses but the supply from natural or
accidental deaths can't keep up with the burgeoning demand from the competitive
American and Canadian powwow circuit. Much of the multimillion-dollar
trade in eagle feathers, beaks and talons has gone underground, and
unscrupulous native and non-native dealers have thrived. (article)
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The Huron ARE
Wendat. They are Iroquoian language based people. They ARE
Haudenosaunee - People of the Longhouse, but they are NOT of the Iroquois
Confederacy, as they did NOT come into the Great Peace, under The Great Law,
even though the Peacemaker, Deganawida, WAS Huron (or Wendat).
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The Lubicon
Lake Nation has not signed treaty with the Crown or any other foreign body at
any time. As such, they remain the sole title holders and retain the Aboriginal
rights to their land and resources and do not recognize the authority of the
Province to issue any type of permits to industry for the exploitation of
Lubicon land. The Government of the Lubicon Lake Nation requires industry to
obtain the free, prior and informed consent from the Nation prior to any
environmentally harmful project moving forward. This hasn’t happened in this
case according to Chief Ominayak. Penn West has been repeatedly informed by the
Nation that no foreign government, including any Canadian endorsed, illegal,
Indian Act formed government, will represent the Lubicon Lake Nation with
regards to their lands. (source) Alberta
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“There is
resistance: in Canada it’s coming from First Nations. But it’s worth
remembering that that’s a world-wide phenomenon. Throughout the world, the
indigenous populations are in the lead. They are actually taking the lead in
trying to protect the earth. That’s extremely significant.” Noam Chomsky (article)
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C
Lester: “The Government of Canada is committed to reconciliation and
nation-to-nation relationships with indigenous peoples, based on a recognition
of rights, respect, co-operation, and partnership,” said the response from
spokeswoman Meaghan Bradley."
Now,
if only they felt this so strongly as to #FullyImplementUNDRIP, stop building
pipelines, #EndAddictionToFossilFuels, fully finance #IndigenousEducation at
least on part with the rest of Canada, #AdoptJordansPrinciple, overhaul
Harper's #OmnibusBills and fully protect the environment and water , hold the
police to account in the upcoming #MMIW Inquiry ... for starters ... (article)
