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With the target date for the establishment of an independent specific claims commission and tribunal rapidly approaching, federal bureaucrats are trying to persuade First Nation negotiators to lower their expectations and let the government off the hook.
April 1, 1999 is the date when a new independent specific claims commission, which would mediate land claim disputes…
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With the target date for the establishment of an independent specific claims commission and tribunal rapidly approaching, federal bureaucrats are trying to persuade First Nation negotiators to lower their expectations and let the government off the hook.
April 1, 1999 is the date when a new independent specific claims commission, which would mediate land claim disputes…
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With the target date for the establishment of an independent specific claims commission and tribunal rapidly approaching, federal bureaucrats are trying to persuade First Nation negotiators to lower their expectations and let the government off the hook.
April 1, 1999 is the date when a new independent specific claims commission, which would mediate land claim disputes…
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The harder John Kim Bell works, the luckier he gets. However, hard work may have more to do with his recent appointment to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation board of directors than luck.
On Sept. 23, he was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chretien to serve a three-year term on the CBC board. His appointment as the first Aboriginal person to serve on the board is a…
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The harder John Kim Bell works, the luckier he gets. However, hard work may have more to do with his recent appointment to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation board of directors than luck.
On Sept. 23, he was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chretien to serve a three-year term on the CBC board. His appointment as the first Aboriginal person to serve on the board is a…
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The harder John Kim Bell works, the luckier he gets. However, hard work may have more to do with his recent appointment to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation board of directors than luck.
On Sept. 23, he was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chretien to serve a three-year term on the CBC board. His appointment as the first Aboriginal person to serve on the board is a…
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A feeling of bitter irony grows in many Indigenous people when people opposed to the ratification of the Nisga'a agreement use the politically- and emotionally-charged word "homeland" to illustrate their objections to the first modern-day treaty to be negotiated in the province of British Columbia.
Those opponents say the precedent set by the Nisga'a's limited self…
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A feeling of bitter irony grows in many Indigenous people when people opposed to the ratification of the Nisga'a agreement use the politically- and emotionally-charged word "homeland" to illustrate their objections to the first modern-day treaty to be negotiated in the province of British Columbia.
Those opponents say the precedent set by the Nisga'a's limited self…
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A feeling of bitter irony grows in many Indigenous people when people opposed to the ratification of the Nisga'a agreement use the politically- and emotionally-charged word "homeland" to illustrate their objections to the first modern-day treaty to be negotiated in the province of British Columbia.
Those opponents say the precedent set by the Nisga'a's limited self…
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The Liberal Party of British Columbia has gone to court to stop the Nisga'a accord, saying it re-invents the Canadian Constitution and therefore requires a constitutional amendment and a referendum involving all the people in the province.
Three Liberal members of the British Columbia legislature - party leader Gordon Campbell, Aboriginal Affairs critic, Mike deJong and…
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Descendants of the original inhabitants of the furthest western regions of the North American continent are locked in a high-profile cat and mouse game with the international environmental community this month as several environmental groups patrol the Juan de Fuca Strait in an attempt to stop the resurrection of an Indigenous cultural activity.
It's all about whaling. The…
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Descendants of the original inhabitants of the furthest western regions of the North American continent are locked in a high-profile cat and mouse game with the international environmental community this month as several environmental groups patrol the Juan de Fuca Strait in an attempt to stop the resurrection of an Indigenous cultural activity.
It's all about whaling. The…
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Descendants of the original inhabitants of the furthest western regions of the North American continent are locked in a high-profile cat and mouse game with the international environmental community this month as several environmental groups patrol the Juan de Fuca Strait in an attempt to stop the resurrection of an Indigenous cultural activity.
It's all about whaling. The…
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The 1999 North American Indigenous Games will not be hosted at Fargo, North Dakota.
The planned Fargo version of the games was officially trashed by a decision of the NAIG council executive meeting in Fargo on Oct. 10.
"It is sad council had to make this choice but, for the sake of the games, council had to do something," said council secretary Roy Desjarlais, who…
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The 1999 North American Indigenous Games will not be hosted at Fargo, North Dakota.
The planned Fargo version of the games was officially trashed by a decision of the NAIG council executive meeting in Fargo on Oct. 10.
"It is sad council had to make this choice but, for the sake of the games, council had to do something," said council secretary Roy Desjarlais, who…