Authorities in British Columbia and Saskatchewan have recently seized thousands of cigarettes shipped by a Mohawk tobacco company in Kahnawake, Que., aiming to establish a reserve-based distribution network throughout the Western provinces, APTN National News has learned.
Saskatchewan First Nations are bracing the impact the Human Rights Act once it comes into force on reserves on June. 19.
On Wednesday, a blogger for a Saskatchewan newspaper reposted the Wikileaks hoax about Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan’s imagined diary and things went a little crazy.
Standing on the back of a tow truck as police hauled away an increasing number of Mohawks protestors, Ernest “Kaientaronkwen” Benedict called for his people to remain calm and regroup before flaring tempers led to a violent confrontation.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is interested in a formal meeting with First Nations leaders and has asked his office to engage in discussions with the country’s main First Nations organization on a wide-ranging reform package to overhaul governance and economic development.
Another chapter has been closed in the death of Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash.
A key Mohawk chief says he is getting frustrated with the structure of the Assembly of First Nations special chiefs gathering in Gatineau, Que.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation “intentionally” manipulated chief and band councillor salaries to make First Nations leaders look bad, the Assembly of First Nations said in an analysis aimed at discrediting information recently released by the tax watchdog group.
The federal director of a taxpayer watchdog group says he regrets sending a heated email calling a First Nations man in Manitoba “racist” during a flurry of exchanges over the organization’s release of chief and councillor salaries.
