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THUNDER BAY, ON Tuesday January 20, 2009: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Stan Beardy made the following statement on today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America:
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(Toronto, January 19, 2009) Canada’s Federal Court will be hearing a lawsuit today against the Minister of the Environment for failing to ensure that Canada’s mining industry publicly reports the hundreds of millions of kilograms of toxic pollution it generates each year.
Thanks to Kenora MP, Greg Rickford, Chief David Matthews was invited to join the polar bear roundtable on Friday, January 16 in Winnipeg.
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WINNIPEG, M.B -- January 16, 2009 -- Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable Jim Prentice, today issued the following statement at the conclusion of the Polar Bear Roundtable in Winnipeg:
This item is from the current issue of Cultural Survival (www.culturalsurvival.org).
One of our goals at Cultural Survival Quarterly magazine is to help nonindigenous people understand and support Indigenous Peoples. One of the best ways to do that is to have indigenous writers talk about their communities, their families, and their lives. We invite you to submit that kind of article to the magazine.
The Canadian Press - Sat. Jan. 17 2009
OTTAWA -- Thousands of native children suffered sexual abuse in Indian residential schools, newly disclosed figures show -- a human tragedy so pervasive it's being called "monstrous."
AFN press release ...
OTTAWA, Jan. 16 /CNW Telbec/ - Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine issued the following statement in regards to the meeting of January 15 with the First Ministers on the Economy.
By Cindy Chan, Epoch Times Staff Jan 16, 2009
When a group of remote First Nations communities in northern Ontario
launched an electronic bulletin board in 1994, it was the seed that
would become Canada’s largest Aboriginal broadband network and a model
See the job ad for a Full-time Community Worker in Moose Factory below ...
The Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services Corporation provides legal, paralegal, and law-related services including public legal education to the members of the First Nations of Nishnawbe-Aski Nation (NAN). The Corporation also functions as an Area Office of Legal Aid Ontario (LAO).
The Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services Corporation is presently recruiting a part-time Community Legal Worker for Pikangikum