Ottawa silent on calls for national inquiry, pledges $25 million to combat violence against Indigenous women
-Calls for a public inquiry into the high number of murdered and missing Indigenous women remain unheeded by the Harper government.
-Calls for a public inquiry into the high number of murdered and missing Indigenous women remain unheeded by the Harper government.
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An American Indian woman is accusing border guards in Saskatoon of racial profiling after she was stopped while entering Canada and asked her heritage and if she was part of the Idle No More movement.
A New York City lawyer hired by the Kanienkehaka Longhouse in Akwesasne to handle a casino case filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and faced allegations of “malpractice” in California over his handling of a family estate dispute involving waterfront property on an island in Honduras.
About 114 km southeast of Akwesasne, on Tuesday, Rarahkwisere, his wrists and ankles in cuffs and chains, enters the boardroom of a county jail in New York State for a federal U.S. court hearing about a casino.
The 2013 federal budget unveiled Thursday contains little in response to ongoing calls for a national inquiry into the high number of missing and murdered Indigenous women.