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The Assembly of First Nations and the department of Indian Affairs have come to an agreement that could result in a truce on the governance issue.
A three-part workplan that has been developed jointly by the government and the AFN executive will be presented to the chiefs at the Confederacy meeting in Ottawa in early December.
The first phase of community…
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The Assembly of First Nations and the department of Indian Affairs have come to an agreement that could result in a truce on the governance issue.
A three-part workplan that has been developed jointly by the government and the AFN executive will be presented to the chiefs at the Confederacy meeting in Ottawa in early December.
The first phase of community…
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An historic Quebec-Cree deal for a $3.8-billion dam complex has prompted an emotional debate in the community. Provincial and Aboriginal officials are praising the deal as a breakthrough in Canada's strained relationship with First Nations, but the agreement has generated anger among ordinary Crees.
Supporters say the deal will open the door to billions of dollars of new…
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An historic Quebec-Cree deal for a $3.8-billion dam complex has prompted an emotional debate in the community. Provincial and Aboriginal officials are praising the deal as a breakthrough in Canada's strained relationship with First Nations, but the agreement has generated anger among ordinary Crees.
Supporters say the deal will open the door to billions of dollars of new…
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An historic Quebec-Cree deal for a $3.8-billion dam complex has prompted an emotional debate in the community. Provincial and Aboriginal officials are praising the deal as a breakthrough in Canada's strained relationship with First Nations, but the agreement has generated anger among ordinary Crees.
Supporters say the deal will open the door to billions of dollars of new…
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An historic Quebec-Cree deal for a $3.8-billion dam complex has prompted an emotional debate in the community. Provincial and Aboriginal officials are praising the deal as a breakthrough in Canada's strained relationship with First Nations, but the agreement has generated anger among ordinary Crees.
Supporters say the deal will open the door to billions of dollars of new…
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It seems that some people have no sense of humor. Ask Mi'Kmaq Bernie Francis and I'm sure he'd have something to say. He's the gentleman who last year stirred up a bit of a fuss at the Treaty Day Festival in the Maritimes. Being somewhat of a grassroots social critic, he rewrote and sang a version of Sinatra's "I Did It My Way" which lampooned the huge salaries and expense…
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It seems that some people have no sense of humor. Ask Mi'Kmaq Bernie Francis and I'm sure he'd have something to say. He's the gentleman who last year stirred up a bit of a fuss at the Treaty Day Festival in the Maritimes. Being somewhat of a grassroots social critic, he rewrote and sang a version of Sinatra's "I Did It My Way" which lampooned the huge salaries and expense…
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It seems that some people have no sense of humor. Ask Mi'Kmaq Bernie Francis and I'm sure he'd have something to say. He's the gentleman who last year stirred up a bit of a fuss at the Treaty Day Festival in the Maritimes. Being somewhat of a grassroots social critic, he rewrote and sang a version of Sinatra's "I Did It My Way" which lampooned the huge salaries and expense…
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It seems that some people have no sense of humor. Ask Mi'Kmaq Bernie Francis and I'm sure he'd have something to say. He's the gentleman who last year stirred up a bit of a fuss at the Treaty Day Festival in the Maritimes. Being somewhat of a grassroots social critic, he rewrote and sang a version of Sinatra's "I Did It My Way" which lampooned the huge salaries and expense…
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Dear Editor:
Re: Taiaiake Alfred column, "Understanding the cause", Windspeaker, October 2001.
Mr. Alfred really needs to refrain from commenting upon complex and explosive topics like 9.11. He speaks at one point of "a naive fool" and of those "without a special understanding of world politics."
Indeed.
Alfred's rhetoric does nothing to clarify the…
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Dear Editor:
Re: Taiaiake Alfred column, "Understanding the cause", Windspeaker, October 2001.
Mr. Alfred really needs to refrain from commenting upon complex and explosive topics like 9.11. He speaks at one point of "a naive fool" and of those "without a special understanding of world politics."
Indeed.
Alfred's rhetoric does nothing to clarify the…
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Dear Editor:
Re: Taiaiake Alfred column, "Understanding the cause", Windspeaker, October 2001.
Mr. Alfred really needs to refrain from commenting upon complex and explosive topics like 9.11. He speaks at one point of "a naive fool" and of those "without a special understanding of world politics."
Indeed.
Alfred's rhetoric does nothing to clarify the…
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Dear Editor:
Re: Taiaiake Alfred column, "Understanding the cause", Windspeaker, October 2001.
Mr. Alfred really needs to refrain from commenting upon complex and explosive topics like 9.11. He speaks at one point of "a naive fool" and of those "without a special understanding of world politics."
Indeed.
Alfred's rhetoric does nothing to clarify the…
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Dear Editor:
My name's Annie. This is a letter, not just for Contact, but to everyone working at APTN and for Windspeaker.
I guess I better start by confessing that I am not an Aboriginal person. I am, however, married to a Mohawk man and have two Mohawk children, a 10-year-old boy named Sky, and a 12-year-old girl named Raven.
I've never written before, but…