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Canadian government pushing First Nations to give up land rights for resource development profits
March 3, 2015 - 4:06pm | by brianbeatonCanadian government pushing First Nations to give up land rights for oil and gas profits
Harper government organized private meetings between oil firms and Indigenous chiefs to try and gain support for oil and gas pipelines and other investments located on their lands, documents reveal
Governments invest in First Nation all-weather road study for east-west corridor route to Ring of Fire
March 1, 2015 - 5:34pm | by brianbeaton
Eating indigenously changes diets and lives of Native Americans
March 1, 2015 - 10:01am | by brianbeatonWorking together to prevent and address violence against Indigenous women and girls
March 1, 2015 - 8:47am | by brianbeatonPress Release
Working Together to Prevent and Address Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls
Issued on behalf of parties named below
OTTAWA, Feb. 28, 2015 - Indigenous families and leaders, Premiers, provincial and territorial Ministers and representatives and Ministers from the Government of Canada met yesterday in Ottawa on needed action to prevent and address violence against Indigenous women and girls.
First Nation and provincial leaders challenging feds response to murdered and missing Aboriginal women
February 26, 2015 - 7:23am | by brianbeaton
Pam Palmater blogs about the struggles and challenges of First Nations within colonial regime
February 20, 2015 - 9:04pm | by brianbeatonFrom 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
Auditor General asked to investigate AANDC for questionable management practices affecting First Nations
February 19, 2015 - 11:12am | by brianbeatonPress 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).
Ottawa now making Indigenous activists and protectors of the land into terrorists with Bill C-51
February 17, 2015 - 10:41pm | by brianbeatonHarper 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
February 17, 2015 - 10:26pm | by brianbeatonThe intergenerational trauma of First Nations still runs deep
KEVIN BERUBE
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Feb. 16 2015
Thousands march for missing, murdered aboriginal women across Canada
February 15, 2015 - 9:39am | by brianbeaton