Archive - Jun 10, 2009

Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee new leader of Anishinabek Nation

Anishinabek Nation press release 

Anishinabek Nation elects a new Grand Council Chief

    AAMJIWNAANG FIRST NATION, ON, June 9 /CNW/ - Patrick Madahbee and Glen Hare are the new leaders of the Anishinabek Nation.

    "My focus for the Anishinabek Nation is going to be on a rights-based agenda," says Grand Council Chief Madahbee, Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.

    Madahbee served as Grand Council Chief in 1980 when he was 27 years old - the youngest Grand Council Chief ever elected in the Anishinabek Nation.