Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to leave by lunch time during next Tuesday’s meeting with hundreds of First Nations leaders in Ottawa, according to chiefs in Ontario and British Columbia.
Michael Chamas, the alleged “banker” for a Mohawk-based marijuana smuggling ring, is a wanted man in Canada, but recent RCMP efforts to nab him internationally haven’t slowed his globe-trotting ways.
Her father was a preacher and she says she believes in God.
It has been almost three months since the police raid took place in Kanesatake, a Mohawk community near Montreal.
A group of protestors gathered in downtown Montreal Monday.
There is a new grand chief in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, near Montreal.
Kanesatake’s band election is coming up on Aug. 20 and 18 candidates are vying for a seat around the big table.
Saying First Nations were in a life or death struggle, Assembly of First Nations national Chief Shawn Atleo urged chiefs from across the country to back his ambitious, multi-year plan to scrap the Indian Act, the department of Aboriginal affairs and replace them with a First Nation-Crow n agreement “that advances and affirms our rights.”
Police raids are not new for residents of the small Mohawk community of Kanesatake in Quebec.
