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Appropriate Engagement and Nutrition Education on Reserve: Lessons Learned From the Takla Lake First Nation in Northern BC
Budget Didn't Meet Raised Expectations
First Nations leaders contend that the federal government failed to provide funding, as promised, to poverty issues. The issues include contaminated water, black mold, and lack of funding for graduates to pursue post secondary education.
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Building Library Communities: Skawenni:io Tsi Iewennahnotahkhwa
The Challenge of Governance and the Aboriginal Peoples
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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Closing the Gaps in Aboriginal Health
Contract With Native America: Tribal Colleges Can Help Mobilize Native American vote
Democratic Self-Government Can't Be Imposed
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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File Hills Police Service Relates to Community
First Nations and British Columbia Public Libraries
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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Fund Spurs First Nations Energy Hopes
Garden River Resource Centre
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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Human Rights Complaint Filed Against MP Pankiw
Discusses the Canadian Human Rights Commission complaint filed by John Melenchuk regarding a controversial pamphlet sent out by Saskatoon Member of Parliament Jim Pankiw. At one point in the article Michael Woodiwiss contends that the essential difference between crimes committed by colonizers and contemporary Aboriginals is that the formers’ crimes went unpunished and mostly unrecorded.
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The Impact of the Congolese Conflict on the Indigenous Pygmy Population
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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Kawacatoose Reeling in Wake of Tornado
The Legacy of Inadequate Housing
Uses federal legal ownership of on-reserve housing plus local band level politics as reasons why housing projects continue to be inferior in comparison to off-reserve housing.
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Liberal MP to Propose FNGA Amendment
Member of Parliament, Rick Laliberte, proposes to amend the First Nations governance act (FNGA) by including, in the definition, all the Indigenous nations names.
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Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Councilor: Kenneth Reels
A Message for Canada's 'Great Kahoona'
Minister Accused of Abuse of Power
Contends that the Indian Affairs Minister, Robert Nault, has dealt punitively with First Nations chiefs that have not agreed with his proposals and so the chiefs will be taking their complaints to the ethics commissioner, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Auditor General of Canada and the Prime Minister.
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Natives Know How Peacemaking Can Succeed
Navajo Cyber-Sovereignty
New Deal Rumored for Off-Reserve People
Outlines the federal government's political stance on Aboriginal issues as Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, hands over the reins to Paul Martin.
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One Good Thing: Law, Elevator Etiquette and Litigating Aboriginal Rights in Canada
Out of Davis Inlet
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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Poverty and Indigenous Peoples With Special Reference to India
The Quest For the Historical Tekánawí-ta': Oral Tradition and the Founding of the Iroquois League
Returning Tribal Government to the Traditional Wisdom of the People: Applying Traditional Principles Appropriately for the Twenty-First Century
Saskatoon Tribal Council
Spirit of Law Ignored?
Discusses issues surrounding one Alberta band's efforts to control its membership numbers.
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Sweetgrass Reserve Named After Non-Cree Chief
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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Urban Reserve Finally a Reality
Urban Reserves Getting Attention
Veterans Just Keeping in Character
Volume 5A: Aboriginal Engagement: Enbridge Northern Gateway Project
Volume 5B: Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge: Enbridge Northern Gateway Project
Why Privatization of Reserve Lands Risks Aboriginal Ruin
Argues that the proposal by the federal government to privatize reserve lands is short sighted and not for the greater good of the Aboriginal population.
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Windspeaker Sports Briefs
Discusses the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Truce Northern Outreach Project and the distribution of spirit boxes to remote northern Aboriginal communities.
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