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Ottawa asked to amend policing program
The Assembly of First Nations and Premier Danielle Smith are calling on the federal government to implement amendments to the ...
Turtle Island News18h
What’s going on at Lindberg Landing?
Relations between people connected to a small cluster of homes beside the Liard River are deteriorating amid rumours and ...
Turtle Island News18h
Liberal majority victory shifts political landscape in New Brunswick
Canadian Press-New Brunswickers are waking up to a transformed political landscape, after the Liberal Party ended six years ...
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Child welfare reform is in the hands of the AFN after deal voted down, minister says
CP-Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu says it is up to the Assembly of First Nations to come back to the federal government with a clear message about how it wants to proceed after chiefs voted ...
Turtle Island News12h
Families call for inquiry after nine Indigenous people killed in police interactions
The Canadian Press-Black and Indigenous women gathered in Ottawa to demand action following a spate of police-involved deaths, including nine Indigenous people who were killed in interactions with ...
Turtle Island News12h
First Nation calls for all-season road amid rising winter temperatures
By Angela Amato Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  With the winter months nearing, many First Nations communities across the country are worried that shorter and shorter seasons for ice roads are ...
Turtle Island News18h
‘Repeated indignities’: First Nation shuts down highway following discovery of early 15th century human remains
By Jon Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  Members of Red Rock Indian Band and their supporters brought all traffic to a halt between eastern and western Canada at the Nipigon Bridge for ...
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‘We are seeing reconciliation in action’: New artwork honouring Indigenous peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador at Confederation Building
By Anasophie Vallee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter   Following the unveilling of Baetha, a two-piece bronze statue depicting Demasduit, Nonosabasut, and their infant child in Botwood on Sept.
Turtle Island News1d
One of the last Navajo Code Talkers from World War II dies at 107
John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II based on the ...
Turtle Island News1d
Lawyer for family members of Pickton’s victims wants copy of killer’s ‘tell all book’
The Canadian Press-A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he’ll be asking for a copy of a “tell all book” seized from Pickton’s cell after he died ...
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Chumash people in California to co-steward marine sanctuary in historic partnership
For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans have been living along California’s central coast, an area of breathtaking beauty with stunning turquoise waters rich in biodiversity. Now, in the first ...
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NAN Statement from AFN Special Chiefs Assembly
On behalf of the leadership of Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), the NAN Executive Council has issued the following statement ...