While that the action plan Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo and the Harper government could take years to produce any results, infrastructure in northern Ontario communities continues to crumble.
While that the action plan Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo and the Harper government could take years to produce any results, infrastructure in northern Ontario communities continues to crumble.
The UN official tasked with monitoring the situation of Indigenous peoples around the world has contacted the Canadian government to express “deep concern” over the housing crisis in Attawapiskat, a northern Ontario First Nations community on the shore of James Bay.
The Assembly of First Nations’ response to the wide-spread opposition to a blue-ribbon education panel created by the organization and the federal government is “quite disturbing,” says a Quebec chief who has been a key player on the education file.
First Nations chiefs in three provinces have struck a crippling blow against a blue-ribbon panel created by the Assembly of First Nations and Ottawa to study on-reserve education and create a template for new legislation.
Algonquin Elder and spiritual leader William Commanda, known by the honourary title of “grandfather,” died in his home early Wednesday morning. He was 97.
The Assembly of First Nations has joined the battle over First Nations cigarettes after chiefs passed a resolution directing national Chief Shawn Atleo to press Ottawa and the provinces to back off attempts to regulate the tobacco trade between communities.
MONCTON,NB-The Assembly of First Nations is exploring ways it can sever its financial dependence on the federal government, national Chief Shawn Atleo said Tuesday.
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.”
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