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Aboriginal Finance and Regulation: What Are the Regulatory Impediments to Establishing an Atlantic Canadian Aboriginal Financial Institution?
Aboriginal Grandmothers Caring For Grandchildren: Located in a Policy Gap
Aboriginal Veterans' Benefits
Explains the reasons why the Saskatchewan Indian Veterans Association (currently known as the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans' Association), the Métis National Council, and other Aboriginal groups are suing the federal government for unfulfilled veterans' benefits.
Accepting Reality Will Be Major Theme of 2003
Access to Medicare Funded Health Services for the Kutjungka Region
AFN Wants to Distance Itself From Federal Government
Discusses priorities of Canada's First Nations as announced by the National Chief at the Assembly of First Nations in July 2010.
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Agreement With Ottawa Drafted
Agreement With Ottawa Still in the Works
Ambassador to Vietnam a Circle of Honour Recipient
American Indian Treaties and the Presidents: A Guide to the Treaties Proclaimed by Each Administration
Anglicans Negotiating Alone: Ecumenical Group Collapses
Big Bear’s Treaty: The Road to Freedom
The Bill That Will Not Die
Cabinet OKs Church Offer
Canada's Aboriginal Education Crisis
Looks at the need for quality education for First Nations children equitable to that of all other Canadian children.
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Casualties of Aboriginal Displacement in Canada: Children at Risk Among the Innu of Labrador
Chief, Minister Spar Over Throne Speech
Highlights the different views the Minister of Indian Affairs and the Assembly of First Nations national chief have in regards to what constitutes First Nations' major and pressing issues.
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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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Chiefs Turn Up the Heat on Treaty Rights
Comments on issues of treaty rights and fair revenues from reserve resources, and discusses a contract between Onion Lake Cree Nation and an Asian government to build a refinery on Cree land.
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Chretien Should Look For a Graceful Exit
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, Government Still Squabbling Over School Issue
Focuses on the residential school survivors conference theme of pressure strategies for improved claim resolution
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Closing the Gap Ministerial Statement
Cree Autonomy: A Re-Examination of Domestic Dependence
Cultural Genocide in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
DFO Makes the Worst of a Good Situation
Discusses the problems caused by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans incorrectly estimating several fish runs.
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The Economic Urgency of Water Rights
Brief article discusses the issues surrounding water allocation to First Nations and the difficulties in resolving the problem due to conflicting jurisdictions.
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Establishing A National Framework For Improving The Health And Well-Being Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Males
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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Former National Chief Leads Court Challenge [Bill C-61]
Looks at Federation of Saskatchewan Nations chairman of the executive council of the senate, David Ahenakew, who talked about legal action against the Crown, claiming Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault breached their fiduciary duty by increasing their control and power over the affairs and government of First Nations.
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Fuss Over Indian Act Misses Fundamental Point
Gov't Stonewalling on Child Welfare Case
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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Governor General Hears Concerns of Youth
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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Indigenous Sexual Health and Well-Being in South Australia
Intergenerational Trauma From a Mental Health Perspective
Involve First Nations in Combating Climate Change
Discusses the need for evaluating climate change and the importance of ensuring First Nations involvement in the process.
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Last to the Ballot Box
Letter: Give AFN Back to the Chiefs
Letter to editor by Ralph Paul, Chief of the English River First Nation, being denied his rights as a chief to question Minister Chuck Strahl.
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Letter Supports First Nations Commercial Fisheries
Discusses the Department of Fisheries and Oceans mismanagement of the 2010 Somass sockeye fish run.
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Letter To The Editor: Response From The Chief of FSIN
Limited Roll Out of New ID Begins
Discusses distribution and delays of the new Secure Status Indian Cards to Buffalo Point First Nation.
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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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The Meaning of "Success" For First Nations Schools
Mohawk Family Hopes To Reclaim Identity in Canadian Court
Money Can't Trump Environmental Change, Says Minister
Discusses the need for alternative energy initiatives to help preserve the environment, including the Northwest Territories initiatives of harnessing the wind's energy and upgrading building standards for increased efficiency.
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Nation Takes Initiative to Battle Climate Change
Discusses the energy conservation program and sustainable food project created by the T'Sou-ke Nation in Sooke, B.C. to combat climate change.
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