"We are nations," says AFN candidate Gabriel
Perhaps best known for her role as spokesperson during the 1990 Oka Crisis, Ellen Gabriel said Canada must change the way it deals with First Nations.
Perhaps best known for her role as spokesperson during the 1990 Oka Crisis, Ellen Gabriel said Canada must change the way it deals with First Nations.
Calling the last three years an honour and privilege, incumbent Shawn Atleo said First Nations today have much to learn from historic battles waged over rights and resources.
While chiefs gather this week at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to vote for the next national chief of the Assembly of First Nations they will also be laying out the agenda for Wednesday’s winner to push.
By Tim Fontaine APTN National News TORONTO–Hundreds of chiefs and potentially thousands of people are…
A prominent Iranian-Canadian human rights activist and wife of Defence Minister Peter MacKay says she “pleaded” with Terry Nelson, a former Manitoba chief running for national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, to end his dealings with Iran and cancel a planned trip to the country’s capital.
APTN National News We covered the walk of Leo Baskatawang when he left B-C. He’s…
The Saskatchewan chief who formally nominated Shawn Atleo as a candidate in 2009 says the incumbent national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is heading down a path toward “assimilation.”
The recent rash of oil spills in Alberta has at least one opponent of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline saying he’s willing to “die” to stop the project.
The Calgary law firm at the centre of a residential school compensation scandal is closing its doors at the end of the month.