A Vancouver Island chief backing Shawn Atleo in the current race for national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is calling on opponents to refrain from “wrecking ball” rhetoric in the campaign.
The Saskatchewan chief who formally nominated Shawn Atleo as a candidate in 2009 says the incumbent national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is heading down a path toward “assimilation.”
Andrea Michael says she’s paying close attention to the race for Assembly of First Nations national chief for the first time because this year’s field includes four female candidates who could make history by breaking the traditionally male hold on the most high profile position in First Nations politics.
The race for the position of national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is heating up.
Tonight we bring you another candidate trying to get the support to join the race to be national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
APTN National News now with another candidate trying to get support to join the race to be national chief of the Assembly of First nations.
Holding an umbrella in the rain, Melanie Morrison stood near the concrete steps leading up to the Parliament’s Centre Block were the country’s politicians pass laws and tried not to cry as she talked about her sister, whose bones were found by a construction worker last summer near Montreal.
The Quebec Native Women’s Association has a new president.
The Conservative government’s continued attack against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the international stage reflects their reluctance to follow through on a promise to partially endorse the document at home, says the NDP’s Aboriginal affairs critic.
