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Self-government in Manitoba came one step closer to realization after provincial chiefs approved a framework agreement on health care services for their people.
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs ratified the Health Framework Agreement for First Nations Peoples in Manitoba at a two-day conference on First Nations Health held at Dakota Tipi First Nation Aug. 30.
The…
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(This is part one in a series looking at taxation as a means of creating a revenue base for self-government)
As of 1994, 43 First Nations in Canada were in various stages of implementing their own taxation systems; 36 in British Columbia, five in Alberta and one each in Saskatchewan and Ontario.
This trend toward the control of taxation by First Nations in Canada…
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Air Creebec was alerted to many of its serious financial and managerial problems about a year and a half ago, when a consulting firm did a detailed analysis of the Cree airline.
The consultants' report was prepared for CreeCo. President Abel Kitchen by the firm Raymond, Chabot, Manin, Pare.
The report said Air Creebec employees had a strong will to turn things…
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Air Creebec was alerted to many of its serious financial and managerial problems about a year and a half ago, when a consulting firm did a detailed analysis of the Cree airline.
The consultants' report was prepared for CreeCo. President Abel Kitchen by the firm Raymond, Chabot, Manin, Pare.
The report said Air Creebec employees had a strong will to turn things…
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Things are starting to look up at Air Creebec.
More Natives have been hired. The management team has been restructured and perhaps most importantly, the Cree Nation's airline company is making a profit for the first time in four-and-a-half years.
"Air Creebec has been on the hot seat for quite a long time, and it deserved to be," said the airline's president Albert…
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One of the great problems in the world today is that key political, cultural and social decisions are being made by men alone, or by a large majority of men with only minimal participation by women.
This presents a great danger for the world because men, by themselves, are not wise enough or balanced enough. It takes both men and women to keep the world balanced and to…
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As media attention moves its roving eye back to the troubled community of Davis Inlet for a second time in less than two years, it's important to be reminded that what is being seen there today is only a symptom of the chronic problems that continues to plague all Aboriginal communities across the country.
The governments of Canada and her provinces are collectively out…
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Two Native teenagers from Alaska, armed with sleeping bags and a few select tools, have been shuttled off by fishing boats to two uninhabited islands to spend more than a year in exile.
The 17-year-old youths are being punished for the brutal beating of a pizza delivery man in Everett, Wash., which left the 25-yera-old with permanent damage to his hearing and eyesight.…
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Davis Inlet kept busy Wednesday, Sept. 7 reinforcing the blockade of their runway and getting ready for an invasion, of sorts, by RCMP.
More lumber and heavy equipment was added to accompany the existing oil barrels and other debris scattered across the airstrip. The community's leader, Chief Simeon Tshakapesh, said they were digging in for the long haul.
The…
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Representatives from the Indian, Metis and Inuit communities have joined forces in planning a friendly takeover of the Charles Campsell Hospital.
The groups want to transform the facility, due to close its door to the public this December, into a Native-run health care centre. This a centre would combine traditional healing methods and conventional medicine under one roof…
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According to a number of studies, fetal nutrition may have an effect on the development of diabetes later in life.
A study of Pima Indians in the southwest United States showed an increased risk of non-insulin dependent diabetes in adults who were low birth-weight babies.
Another study of Mexican Americans showed a relationship between low birth weight and the "…
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The journey was made o foot, from their homes in northeastern Alberta to the federal government building in Edmonton, 431 kilometres to the south.
Members of the Paul Cree Indian Band near For McMurray chose to make the 11-day trip to protest government inaction on a land claim outstanding for 73 years.
the time they'd reached their destination on Aug. 31 some of…
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A traditional sentencing circle is not in the cards for Peigan activist Milton Born With A Tooth.
Justice Willis O'Leary discounted the ceremony, saying the man convicted of weapons offences has neither admitted to any wrong doing or showed any remorse for what he has done.
"In my view his community will not benefit substantially from a sentencing circle," said O'…
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There will be two men vying for the top spot of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs in an election slated for Sept. 14.
When nominations closed for the position of Grand Chief Sept. 2 two candidates were declared. Incumbent Philip Fontaine will face contender Roderick Bushie in a bid to lead the 60 member chiefs of the organization.
Bushie is the former chief of Hollow…
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Native fisherman Joe LaBobe believes non-Native commercial fishermen in P.E.I. are beginning to forget a simple fact of Canadian life. That being non-Native have the privilege of fishing Canadian waters, and Native fishermen have that right.
LaBobe has watched the tensions rise over the years between the two opposing groups. He was not surprised when the atmosphere on the…