A Mohawk woman says she lost a band job to run the community’s arena after the local newspaper ran one of her letters to the editor which said she would be “idle no more” over a long-running land dispute with the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne.
It was an on-going dispute over his handling of Aboriginal issues that led to suspended Sen. Patrick Brazeau alleging assaulting and groping a woman according to court documents.
Inside the wood stove-warmed canvas tent beside the barricades on the ice road leading to the diamond mine Rebecca Iahtail says she’s dying from cancer.
Aboriginal Affairs minister John Duncan tendered his resignation today and Prime Minister Stephen Harper has accepted it.
Moments after Steven Thomas, chief financial officer for De Beers, informed a group of blockaders the company would seek an injunction to have police end the ice road blockade, Attawapiskat band councillor Gerry Nakogee grabbed a microphone and accused the diamond mining giant of tricking the community.
The judge who signed court injunctions ending two different rail blockades in support of idle no more used to represent CN Rail as a lawyer and also acted as a witness for the company in the United States according to documents obtained by APTN National News.
A west coast artist just completed a week long journey in support of the Idle No More movement.
About a dozen Attawapiskat residents launched a second blockade on an ice road leading to the De Beers diamond mine Sunday.
APTN National News Idle No More organizers in Calgary staged an event called “Hug a…
