National Chief says big changes coming, Ministers of the Crown promise the same
National Chief Perry Bellegarde opened the 2018 Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa.
Perry Bellegarde
AFN holds ‘national day of action’ on Parliament Hill to push child welfare change
APTN News The Assembly of First Nations is holding a national day of action Thursday…
AFN slams brakes on environmental talks with Trudeau over secrecy
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) slammed the brakes on drafting legislative amendments on environmental and regulatory processes with the Trudeau government last month saying it had become strangers within the process.
First Nation Elders want Eagle Staff gifted to Canada’s UN ambassador returned
Some First Nation Elders want to repatriate an Eagle Staff gifted by Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde to a Canadian diplomat in honour of the 10th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Perry Bellegarde named to Liberals NAFTA council ahead of negotiations
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is one of 13 members named to a newly created advisory council
3 of 5 national Indigenous leaders boycotting premiers meeting in Edmonton
APTN National News The Native Women’s Association of Canada and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples…
Social media turns on AFN for signing MOU with Canada
Todd Lamirande APTN National News The Crown and the Assembly of First Nations held its…
La Loche school principal says staff, students still struggling year after shooting
Larissa Burnouf APTN National News A year after a gunman opened fire at a high…
Isolation a barrier to exposing sexual abuse, incest on reserve: Bellegarde
AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde says isolation is a barrier to exposing sexual abuse on reserve .