Assembly of First Nations national Chief Shawn Atleo and Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan have agreed to a plan that seems to set the stage for an historic meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and First Nations chiefs.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has wrapped up its Northern hearings.
For 12 hours, survivors from the Lower Post Residential School told their stories at the Truth and Reconciliation hearings held last week in Watson Lake, Yukon.
APTN National News Day-schoolers were left out of Canada’s reparations to the residential school survivors….
Residential day school survivors continue their attempt to have their class action lawsuit certified.
When an “instinctively combative” Stephen Harper reached across party lines to deliver the historic apology to Indian residential school survivors, it marked a rare moment when he attempted “consensus” during a centralized and secretive minority rule, according to a blunt assessment contained in a “secret” U.S. diplomatic cable obtained by APTN National News.
A family has been fighting with the federal government for decades to have their son returned home.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s second national event is approaching. The week-long gathering is taking place this June in Inuvik, NWT. Over 1,000 residential school survivors and their families are expected to attend.
A Yukon First Nations man has been living in a tent for the last six months in Whitehorse.
