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Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi gave a stern warning to both the national chiefs and the national media last month as the assembly's annual meeting wrapped up in Calgary.
Natives in Canada are mad, he said, mad enough to resort to acts of "retaliation" should they be pushed too far. The vague and veiled threat brought back images of Oka.
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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A nine-month-old protest over electrical power billing in Newfoundland is threatening to surge to new extremes if Natives and the province can't come to an agreement.
Members of the Innu Nation removed the power meters from about 80 homes
in Sheshatshiu last November to protest the flooding from the Churchill Falls dam in the Meshikamau region of eastern Labrador…
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Windspeaker Contributor Marlene Dolan interviewed Ovide Mercredi, Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, at the recent AFN assembly in Calgary.
In terms of self-government, what is the next step of the AFN?
I think the next step if getting our chiefs to begin moving away from the Indian act, because as long as the Indian Act is there, our advocacy for the…
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Fourteen Inuit children at a substance abuse treatment centre in Alberta will not be returned to their community in northern Labrador when they go home later this month.
The children from Davis Inlet will be sent to Sango Bay, the proposed site for the new village, said band Chief Katie Rich.
The children cannot be returned to the inlet because the temptation to…
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Native issues sprang to the forefront of federal electoral politics last month during the Assembly of First Nations annual meeting near Calgary.
Federal NDP leader Audrey McLaughlin blasted Prime Minister Kim Campbell
and the federal Conservative party for "their arrogant" disregard of Natives' rights to self-government.
"A disregard for Aboriginal issues…
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Land claim talks between Natives and governments officials in Ontario have stalled over a breach of negotiations etiquette.
The Teme-Augama band in north-central Ontario denounced the provincial government for prematurely releasing information about its land claim offer.
The settlement offer was published in violation of an established protocol by which both…