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A long-anticipated agreement has been reached between the Nisga'a Tribal Council, and the governments of British Columbia and Canada. The agreement will be used as the basis for negotiations of the first modern-day treaty in the province and ends over 100-years of waiting for the northern B.C. Natives.
The province presented the new Nisga'a agreement-in-principle for…
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Clear, unfettered authority over the management of reserve lands is how Chief Robert Louie describes the power given to the 13 First Nations involved in the new framework agreement on First Nation land management.
Control over reserve lands and protection for those lands from expropriation is at the root of the agreement signed in Ontario on Feb. 12. The agreement gives…
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Clear, unfettered authority over the management of reserve lands is how Chief Robert Louie describes the power given to the 13 First Nations involved in the new framework agreement on First Nation land management.
Control over reserve lands and protection for those lands from expropriation is at the root of the agreement signed in Ontario on Feb. 12. The agreement gives…
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The continuing hearings into the proposed BHP diamond mine in the central Northwest Territories threaten to separate the parties who must agree to give the mine a go-ahead. Environmentalists, local business boosters, mine proponents and the region's First Nations all bring differing expectations to the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Panel. Only time will tell whether…
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The continuing hearings into the proposed BHP diamond mine in the central Northwest Territories threaten to separate the parties who must agree to give the mine a go-ahead. Environmentalists, local business boosters, mine proponents and the region's First Nations all bring differing expectations to the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Panel. Only time will tell whether…
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The First Nations International Court of Justice is set to begin its preliminary hearing into the case against Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, indicted by the court for illegal activity undertaken by Canada against First Nations people.
The court will sit from April 2 to 4 in the ballroom of the Radisson Hotel in Ottawa. At this first sitting, the judges will hear…
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The First Nations International Court of Justice is set to begin its preliminary hearing into the case against Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, indicted by the court for illegal activity undertaken by Canada against First Nations people.
The court will sit from April 2 to 4 in the ballroom of the Radisson Hotel in Ottawa. At this first sitting, the judges will hear…
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As construction approached completion on the Casino Rama project an hour and a half north of Toronto, the new Ontario government grabbed a share of the profit. Premier Mike Harris's Progressive Conservatives also unilaterally stopped construction until a list of new conditions ? not previously applied to the project, which was begun under Bob Rae's NDP regime ? were satisfied.…
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A Newfoundland woman, Danika Edmunds, marked a milestone for Native grads this spring as the first woman of Inuit descent to earn a medical degree.
The 25-year-old woman took her place beside the other proud Univer-sity of Alberta graduates in Edmonton and was joined at a luncheon later in the day by Noah Carpenter, Canada's only other Inuit doctor. He serves as a…
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A Newfoundland woman, Danika Edmunds, marked a milestone for Native grads this spring as the first woman of Inuit descent to earn a medical degree.
The 25-year-old woman took her place beside the other proud Univer-sity of Alberta graduates in Edmonton and was joined at a luncheon later in the day by Noah Carpenter, Canada's only other Inuit doctor. He serves as a…
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The University of Saskatchewan will confer honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to Ernest Mike and Daniel Musqua at the university's annual spring graduation.
Ernest Mike was born in 1924 and is a member of the Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation. He stayed in school until 16, and then helped his father farm.
For more than 40 years, Mike has occupied leadership roles in…
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The University of Saskatchewan will confer honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to Ernest Mike and Daniel Musqua at the university's annual spring graduation.
Ernest Mike was born in 1924 and is a member of the Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation. He stayed in school until 16, and then helped his father farm.
For more than 40 years, Mike has occupied leadership roles in…
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"The message is 'If we can keep our language then we can keep our culture," says al Ducharme, a Saskatchewan Metis whose Master's thesis has yielded surprising conclusions.
Believing the goals that drive education for Aboriginal people were wrong in some way, he set out to interview Native people about what those goals should be.
Ducharme found out that the…
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"The message is 'If we can keep our language then we can keep our culture," says al Ducharme, a Saskatchewan Metis whose Master's thesis has yielded surprising conclusions.
Believing the goals that drive education for Aboriginal people were wrong in some way, he set out to interview Native people about what those goals should be.
Ducharme found out that the…
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Last week, the Mushkegowuk Council banned the Canadian Wildlife Service from entering the lands of any of its five member bands. The coun-cil says the ban will remain in effect until a dispute between the First Na-tions and the government over proposed amendments to the Canada-U.S. Migratory Bird Convention of 1916 is resolved.
The wildlife service is an arm of the…