Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan said Friday he’d work with Terry Nelson if the former Ojibway chief, who recently made headlines by courting Iran and forging ties to the Muslim community, becomes the next national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
On Good Friday in a mosque on the outskirts of Toronto, former Ojibway chief Terry Nelson sat on a chair holding eagle feathers while around him hundreds of Muslim faithful knelt on prayer rugs listening to the Imam preach about the “genocide” committed against Indigenous peoples in North America.
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Iran is using a group of Manitoba First Nations leaders as “pawns” to distract from its own “abhorrent record” on human rights, said a spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
Iran is using a group of Manitoba First Nations leaders as “pawns” to distract from its own “abhorrent record” on human rights, said a spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
Iranian officials are “working very hard” to bring a group of Manitoba First Nations leaders to Tehran and address the Iranian parliament, said former Roseau River First Nation chief Terry Nelson after a meeting with an Iranian diplomat Monday.
Iranian officials are “working very hard” to bring a group of Manitoba First Nations leaders to Tehran and address the Iranian parliament, said former Roseau River First Nation chief Terry Nelson after a meeting with an Iranian diplomat Monday.
A former Manitoba chief’s attempt to land a meeting with the Iranian government won’t help the cause of First Nations people and simply give the regime in Tehran another chance to deflect attention from its own human rights abuses, says the chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Group for Human Rights in Iran.
