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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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Appropriate Engagement and Nutrition Education on Reserve: Lessons Learned From the Takla Lake First Nation in Northern BC
Chief and Council Salaries Fodder for Discussion
Discussion on whether chief and council members are being compensated too much for the work they do.
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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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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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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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File Hills Police Service Relates to Community
First Nations Develop Alcohol Harm Reduction Policies
First Nations Remember the Star from Sandy Lake
Brief article on Fred Sasakamoose being honored at the Kamloops Blazers First Nations Night.
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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
Haudensosaunee Team Denied by British Authorities
Discusses the refusal by the British Consulate to allow the Iroquois Nationals senior men's field lacrosse team to enter England, due to not recognizing the team's Haudenosaunee passports.
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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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Institutional Engagement with Indigenous Communities: The First Nations Partnerships Program and the Use of a Borderland Space
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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Just Deserts
Kawacatoose Reeling in Wake of Tornado
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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A Message for Canada's 'Great Kahoona'
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”
One Good Thing: Law, Elevator Etiquette and Litigating Aboriginal Rights in Canada
Page 5 Chatter
Article presents three different news reports: A television series for the Aboriginal People's Television Network (APTN), Native American veterans who were illegally taxed, and the latest proroguing of the federal government causing concerns for registration as status Indians.
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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
Returning Tribal Government to the Traditional Wisdom of the People: Applying Traditional Principles Appropriately for the Twenty-First Century
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
Taxpayer Organization Pushes for Taxing On-Reserve Purchases
Brief article claiming that First Nations tax exemptions give their businesses an unfair advantage.
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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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