Archive - Feb 2015

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February 26th

First Nation and provincial leaders challenging feds response to murdered and missing Aboriginal women

From the StarPhoenix.com

Aboriginal chief: Minister's comments 'ill-informed'

 BY MARK KENNEDY, OTTAWA CITIZEN FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Aboriginal chief: Minister's comments 'ill-informed'

February 20th

Pam Palmater blogs about the struggles and challenges of First Nations within colonial regime

From http://indigenousnationhood.blogspot.ca/2015/02/genocide-murder-criminal-negligence.html

Genocide? Murder? Criminal Negligence? Or Passive Indifference? Canada is Killing Our People

February 20, 2015

February 19th

Auditor General asked to investigate AANDC for questionable management practices affecting First Nations

Press release

Questionable management practices at AANDC - AFNQL asks Auditor General to investigate

WENDAKE, QC, Feb. 19, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - The Assembly of the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL), and the First Nations Education Council (FNEC), have asked the Auditor General, Michael Ferguson, to look into what they consider to be blatant cases of mismanagement of education programs by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AADNC).

February 17th

Ottawa now making Indigenous activists and protectors of the land into terrorists with Bill C-51

From rabble.ca

Harper may have just turned Indigenous activists into terrorists

BY PAMELA PALMATER | FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Nodin Director writes about the effects of intergenerational trauma in First Nations in Globe and Mail

From theGlobeandMail.com

The intergenerational trauma of First Nations still runs deep

KEVIN BERUBE

Special to The Globe and Mail

Published Monday, Feb. 16 2015

February 15th

First Nation education can work just look to the Mi'Kmaq in Nova Scotia for owning, controlling, succeeding

From HuffingtonPost.ca

There Is A Way To Fix First Nations Education And This Is How It Starts

Michael Bolen Posted: 02/14/2015 It took 15 years for a new elementary school to open in Attawapiskat after the old one was shut down. It doesn't have to be this way. (Photo: The Canadian Press)

February 14th

Nishnawbe Aski Nation starts education program to stop sexual violence

From CBC.ca

NAN starts education program to stop sexual violence

CBC News Posted: Feb 13, 2015 3:40 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 13, 2015 3:40 PM ET