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Native bands along the Fraser River watershed in British Columbia have signed an agreement amongst themselves to restore order to their fishery.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in Vancouver March 25, Lower Fraser Fishing Authority spokesman Ernie Crey said. The agreement between the 97 bands throughout the Fraser River watershed, including those on the Thompson…
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The preservation of Aboriginal languages will be the acid test for Canadian human rights during the United Nations' Year of Indigenous Peoples, the grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations said.
"Successive Canadian governments tried to destroy our languages and cultures through systems such as the residential schools," said Ovide Mercredi.
"All over the…
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The preservation of Aboriginal languages will be the acid test for Canadian human rights during the United Nations' Year of Indigenous Peoples, the grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations said.
"Successive Canadian governments tried to destroy our languages and cultures through systems such as the residential schools," said Ovide Mercredi.
"All over the…
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The preservation of Aboriginal languages will be the acid test for Canadian human rights during the United Nations' Year of Indigenous Peoples, the grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations said.
"Successive Canadian governments tried to destroy our languages and cultures through systems such as the residential schools," said Ovide Mercredi.
"All over the…
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The preservation of Aboriginal languages will be the acid test for Canadian human rights during the United Nations' Year of Indigenous Peoples, the grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations said.
"Successive Canadian governments tried to destroy our languages and cultures through systems such as the residential schools," said Ovide Mercredi.
"All over the…
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More Canadians than ever claim to be Native, a report by Statistics Canada showed.
Figures released late last month for the 1991 Census and Aboriginal Peoples Survey show the number of people across Canada who reported Aboriginal origins soared 41 per cent since the 1986 survey.
Some 1,002,675 people reported having Aboriginal origins in 1991, up from 711,720 five…
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More Canadians than ever claim to be Native, a report by Statistics Canada showed.
Figures released late last month for the 1991 Census and Aboriginal Peoples Survey show the number of people across Canada who reported Aboriginal origins soared 41 per cent since the 1986 survey.
Some 1,002,675 people reported having Aboriginal origins in 1991, up from 711,720 five…
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More Canadians than ever claim to be Native, a report by Statistics Canada showed.
Figures released late last month for the 1991 Census and Aboriginal Peoples Survey show the number of people across Canada who reported Aboriginal origins soared 41 per cent since the 1986 survey.
Some 1,002,675 people reported having Aboriginal origins in 1991, up from 711,720 five…
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More Canadians than ever claim to be Native, a report by Statistics Canada showed.
Figures released late last month for the 1991 Census and Aboriginal Peoples Survey show the number of people across Canada who reported Aboriginal origins soared 41 per cent since the 1986 survey.
Some 1,002,675 people reported having Aboriginal origins in 1991, up from 711,720 five…
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Treaty Indians dissatisfied with Assembly of First Nations representation are meeting to form their own national organization.
Treaty chiefs from across Canada met on the T'suu Tina Nation's reserve southwest of Calgary last week to ratify the plan for the new national political organization that would represent only treaty Indians.
The United Treaty First Nations…
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"It was just like a desert, just gravel. How could they have sent us there when there was nothing."
Seventy-seven-year-old Minnie Allakanallak was questioning the federal government's decision to move Inuit from northern Quebec to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.
Allakanallak and 34 others were in Ottawa last week to testify before the Royal Commission on…
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"It was just like a desert, just gravel. How could they have sent us there when there was nothing."
Seventy-seven-year-old Minnie Allakanallak was questioning the federal government's decision to move Inuit from northern Quebec to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.
Allakanallak and 34 others were in Ottawa last week to testify before the Royal Commission on…
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"It was just like a desert, just gravel. How could they have sent us there when there was nothing."
Seventy-seven-year-old Minnie Allakanallak was questioning the federal government's decision to move Inuit from northern Quebec to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.
Allakanallak and 34 others were in Ottawa last week to testify before the Royal Commission on…
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"It was just like a desert, just gravel. How could they have sent us there when there was nothing."
Seventy-seven-year-old Minnie Allakanallak was questioning the federal government's decision to move Inuit from northern Quebec to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.
Allakanallak and 34 others were in Ottawa last week to testify before the Royal Commission on…
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A first for Prince Albert, a first for Canada, a first for North America. This city, located in north-central Saskatchewan, is gearing up for the first-ever North American Indigenous Games, July 18-25.
The office is quiet now. Telephones are busy but voices are calm and muted. Brochures are neatly lined up on a low table. Aboriginal artifacts are arranged attractively on…