Aboriginal leaders gain support from provincial premiers for inquiry into missing aboriginal women

From CTV.ca

Premiers call for inquiry into missing aboriginal women

Maria Babbage, The Canadian Press, July 24, 2013

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. -- Provincial and territorial leaders threw their support Wednesday behind a national public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls, ratcheting up the pressure on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to follow suit.

First Nation gatherings calling on all Canadians to urge government to honour the apology

From HuffingtonPost.ca

Honour the Apology: Fasting for My Father, a Residential School Survivor

Wab Kinew, Director of Indigenous Inclusion, the University of Winnipeg - 07/25/2013 

Chiefs of Treaty 3 First Nations form a new board to address issues at T3 Police Services

From CBC.ca

Treaty Three Police won't close up shop - yet

First Nations police service board aims to address issue of chronic government underfunding

Jul 24, 2013 9:32 AM ET 

First Nations in northwestern Ontario and eastern Manitoba may not lose their Aboriginal police force after all.

Acquittal for logging blockade in Barriere Lake First Nation lands defense

From Intercontinentialcry.org

Blockade Charges; Forestry Company Caught Lying On The Stand

BY  • JUN 11, 2012

Ongoing oil leak in Alberta on First Nation lands is Minister of Environment's new challenge

From peoplesworld.org

Alberta oil leak into week 10 - can it be stopped?

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First Nation leaders pass AFN resolution rejecting government's First Nation Education Act

From VancouverSun.com

Key moments in the struggle over First Nations schooling policy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS JULY 21, 2013

Government withholding Residental School documents about the torture of children

From Vice.com

The Canadian Government Is Withholding Documents Concerning the Torture of Children

By Dave Dean

National Treaty Gathering forms Alliance demanding respect for treaties and Crown's honour

From FirstPerspective.ca

New rival to AFN pushes ahead or indigenous sovereignty

GLORIA GALLOWAY - OTTAWA - The Globe and Mail - 19 July 2013

A schism in aboriginal leadership is threatening to divide the Assembly of First Nations as a new alliance moves to convince native communities across Canada to choose its path to sovereignty from federal rule.