Northerns have doubts about new Minister's abilities

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Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes spent much of her first official visit to the Northwest Territories trying to reassure Northerners she can handle her new portfolio.

Just over two weeks after being appointed, Browes met with the NWT cabinet in Yellowknife and attended the ceremony marking the royal assent of the Nunavut land claim in Coppermine.

Northerns have doubts about new Minister's abilities

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Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes spent much of her first official visit to the Northwest Territories trying to reassure Northerners she can handle her new portfolio.

Just over two weeks after being appointed, Browes met with the NWT cabinet in Yellowknife and attended the ceremony marking the royal assent of the Nunavut land claim in Coppermine.

Northerns have doubts about new Minister's abilities

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Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes spent much of her first official visit to the Northwest Territories trying to reassure Northerners she can handle her new portfolio.

Just over two weeks after being appointed, Browes met with the NWT cabinet in Yellowknife and attended the ceremony marking the royal assent of the Nunavut land claim in Coppermine.

Northerns have doubts about new Minister's abilities

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Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes spent much of her first official visit to the Northwest Territories trying to reassure Northerners she can handle her new portfolio.

Just over two weeks after being appointed, Browes met with the NWT cabinet in Yellowknife and attended the ceremony marking the royal assent of the Nunavut land claim in Coppermine.

Northerns have doubts about new Minister's abilities

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Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes spent much of her first official visit to the Northwest Territories trying to reassure Northerners she can handle her new portfolio.

Just over two weeks after being appointed, Browes met with the NWT cabinet in Yellowknife and attended the ceremony marking the royal assent of the Nunavut land claim in Coppermine.

Northerns have doubts about new Minister's abilities

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Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes spent much of her first official visit to the Northwest Territories trying to reassure Northerners she can handle her new portfolio.

Just over two weeks after being appointed, Browes met with the NWT cabinet in Yellowknife and attended the ceremony marking the royal assent of the Nunavut land claim in Coppermine.

Northerns have doubts about new Minister's abilities

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Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes spent much of her first official visit to the Northwest Territories trying to reassure Northerners she can handle her new portfolio.

Just over two weeks after being appointed, Browes met with the NWT cabinet in Yellowknife and attended the ceremony marking the royal assent of the Nunavut land claim in Coppermine.

Northerns have doubts about new Minister's abilities

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Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes spent much of her first official visit to the Northwest Territories trying to reassure Northerners she can handle her new portfolio.

Just over two weeks after being appointed, Browes met with the NWT cabinet in Yellowknife and attended the ceremony marking the royal assent of the Nunavut land claim in Coppermine.

Northerns have doubts about new Minister's abilities

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Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes spent much of her first official visit to the Northwest Territories trying to reassure Northerners she can handle her new portfolio.

Just over two weeks after being appointed, Browes met with the NWT cabinet in Yellowknife and attended the ceremony marking the royal assent of the Nunavut land claim in Coppermine.

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Self-government was not first on the agenda at last week's annual meetings of the chiefs of the Assembly of First Nations.

Poverty, health care and education superseded Native political sovereignty as important issues, said Tsuu Tina Chief Roy Whitney.

"People want to make sure they have bread and butter on the table, they have a job, their children have clothing," he said. "To me, those are more pressing issues. Self-government is meaningless unless the rest of it is able to take place."