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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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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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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)
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
Fund-Raiser Launched to Cover Legal Expenses
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
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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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
Referendum in B.C. Doesn't Mean Much
Smoke Case Metaphor for Canadian Racism
Snapshots of La Ronge: Portraits of La Ronge's Economic Vitality as Depicted through Community Leaders and Visionaries
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
Treaty Referendum Questions Called 'Ridiculous'
Questions a referendum proposed by B. C. treaty negotiators, arguing that the rights of a minority (First Nations) were being placed in front of a majority (constituents) and that some questions asked address rights already affirmed in Canadian courts and the Constitution.
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Virginia's Indian Nations: Policy Issues and Solutions for Future Generations
A Walkerton Waiting to Happen
Reports on water quality and wastewater treatment facilities on reserves, including mechanical problems at treatment plants, lack of trained operators, and/or lack of inspection and testing.
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