A prominent Mi’kmaq leader says he would rather resign as head of Nova Scotia’s treaty rights organization than see a young First Nation woman harmed because of her ongoing hunger strike.
Manitoba RCMP investigators are probing the death of a 19-year-old man from Cross Lake who is also the nephew of Elder Raymond Robinson, one of two men who had been fasting alongside Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence in Ottawa.
The holiday season did little to slow the growth of the Idle No More movement in the Maritimes with demonstrations, round dances and group fasts taking place across the region.
