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During the Aboriginal Spiritual Journey to France, First Nations veteran, Howard Anderson discusses how unfulfilled veterans’ benefits continue to be a source of contention between First Nations veterans and the federal government.
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Anniversary of Bear Claw Raid Still Painful
Anti-terrorist Unit Raids Native Activist's Home
Focuses on a tactical RCMP unit, that was created under the Anti-Terrorism Act unit, who evacuated a neighbourhood and then kicked down the door of John Rampanen's home, a member of West Coast Warrior Society.
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Ceremony Honours First Nations Firefighters
Chiefs Reject Executive-Negotiated Governance Plan
Reports on the varied reasons why First Nations chiefs rejected the Indian Affairs Minister’s proposed joint governance consultation process to change the Indian Act.
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Church Woes in US Could Help Lawsuits in Canada
Discusses whether the federal government will choose to initiate alternative dispute resolution as opposed to litigation in resolving the 700 Indian Residential school lawsuits in British Columbia.
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Churches Join First Nation in Push for Water Policy
Crees and Quebec Ink Partnership for Prosperity in New Agreement
Dakota Resources: "A People Without History Is Like Wind on the Buffalo Grass": Lakota Winter Counts
Dancing with Ghosts: Wasica at Chankpe Opi (a White Man at Wounded Knee)
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Economic Development a Priority in Nation
Highlights the treaty talks between the First Nations people and the provincial government in British Columbia.
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Feds to Abandon 30 Negotiation Tables: Minister Robert Nault Encourages Lively Debate on Proposed Legislation
Focuses on Minister of Indian Affairs’ decision to end ongoing negotiations with First Nations leaders largely due to time already spent and the inability to reach an agreement.
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First Nations Develop Alcohol Harm Reduction Policies
Fiscal Management Law Major Native Milestone
A Forest of Family Trees: Rupert's Land Roots in Western Canada
From "Indians" to "First Nations": Changing Anglo-Canadian Perceptions of the North American Indian in the Twentieth Century
Fund-Raiser Launched to Cover Legal Expenses
Good Law Threatened by Sovereignty Spat
Government Corruption and Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples
Government Setting a Trap, Says Professor [First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act]
Analyses of the federal government's draft proposal of an act, seen by some, as an attempt to fore-go some fiduciary responsibilities by giving First Nations governments the right to employ taxation to their members.
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Haida's Case
Improving Water Quality Remains a Struggle
Advocates having provinces provide First Nations reserves with technical assistance, the testing of drinking water, inspections and water quality enforcement on a cost recovery basis as one option to addressing safe drinking water issues.
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Just Deserts
Keyano-Pimee Focused on Pumping Up Business
Legal Drugs are Misused as Well
Attributes unresolved sexual abuse as the underlying problem which when not dealt with could lead to the high levels of First Nations peoples abusing prescription drugs as a means of coping with emotional issues.
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Lubicon Band Threatens Drilling Plans
Martin Says All the Right Things to Chiefs [AFN Annual General Assembly]
Comments that Paul Martin’s speech in 2002 was met with interest and approval when he hinted at criticism of his own government's approach to issues regarding treaties and self-government, but with far less enthusiasm when he mentioned the First Nations governance act.
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Mohawk Family Hopes To Reclaim Identity in Canadian Court
Native Bands Owe More Audits: Only Three-Quarters of Required Documents Have Been Submitted to a New Government Web Site That Will Track Billions in Spending
Off the Rez: It's Time to Close the Indian Reservations
An Olympian Ran Here - An Athlete Story: Taking from Keith Davidson’s “Looking Back Series”
A Place at the Table: The United Nations Established a Historic New Forum for Indigenous Issues. What Will it Mean for Native Peoples Around the World?
A Plague of Despair: Davis Inlet and Sheshatshiu ...
Police Farce: Documents Reveal the Siksika Nation Police Service Deserved to be Decommissioned
Poverty in Canada
Profiling Federally Incarcerated First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Offenders
Program Benefits Community Healing: Waterhen First Nation Residential School Survivors Program
A Promising Approach: Best Practices in First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education
Referendum in B.C. Doesn't Mean Much
Revive Original Relationship With First Nations
Smoke Case Metaphor for Canadian Racism
Snapshots of La Ronge: Portraits of La Ronge's Economic Vitality as Depicted through Community Leaders and Visionaries
Social Capital as a Health Determinant in First Nations: An Exploratory Study in Three Communities
Some Reserves Are Not Viable
St Anne's Day -- A Time to "Turn Home" for the Canadian Mi'kmaq Indians
Sui Generis and Treaty Citizenship
Tackling First Nations Woes Needs United Effort
Top INAC Official Raked Over Coals
Sums up a verbal exchange between an Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) top official and fellow MP's regarding deficiencies and problems within his ministry, particularly in regard to education.
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