Chiefs set to talk education during Halifax AFN meeting
Hundreds of Aboriginal leaders will meet in Halifax this week.
Hundreds of Aboriginal leaders will meet in Halifax this week.
-First Nation chiefs gathered for a special meeting of the Assembly of First Nations Tuesday are expected to formally reject the Harper government’s proposed bill for on-reserve education.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt moved aggressively to undermine the Confederacy of Nations Thursday, labeling the chiefs behind the organization as rogues who are “threatening” national security.
A group of Ottawa’s poor and homeless gathered on the sidewalk outside St. Paul’s waiting patiently to begin their weekly service unusually held in the church basement occupied on this Wednesday evening by First Nation leaders gathered for what many of them deemed to be a historic event.
APTN National News They came by the busload. They came by the thousands. They carried…
A long dormant governing body within in the Assembly of First Nations is set to hold its first meeting in a decade this week in Ottawa, says the head of Manitoba’s largest chiefs organization.
The election for the next national chief of the Assembly of First Nations will likely be held this fall, according to the organization’s executive chiefs committee that has taken over the role in the interim from Shawn Atleo who resigned from the post last Friday.
APTN National News OTTAWA—Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo announced his resignation Friday…
APTN National News Reaction is still coming in from across the country regarding the resignation…