Attawapiskat First Nation requested a police investigation into the activities of Clayton Kennedy, the life partner of current Chief Theresa Spence, during his first stint as co-manager for the community a decade ago, APTN National News has learned.
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News A First Nation activist has filed a judicial complaint…
Facing rising legal costs, cuts to its budget, a booming Indigenous population and the federal Aboriginal Affairs department faces a “high risk” of a deteriorating relationship with First Nations that could lead to increased protests and potentially “violence,” internal department documents show.
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News Two of the chiefs that stormed Parliament Hill a…
APTN National News An Idle No More rally took place in Burnaby, B.C. over the…
APTN National News Neil Young performed for a packed house in Winnipeg Thursday in support…
The federal government prepared for the potential of a nation-wide flare up of protests triggered by heavily-armed raid last October by RCMP tactical units on a Mi’kmaq-led anti-fracking camp in New Brunswick, internal government records show.
There was a small but vocal gathering on parliament hill Monday with people decrying the federal governments plan for First Nations education.
A senior British Columbia chief says the deputy minister of Aboriginal Affairs made a “snide remark” about the lack of Idle No More protests during a recent meeting in Ottawa of a committee created during a controversial meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and First Nation chiefs last Jan. 11.
