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OTTAWA After listening to two Throne Speeches with lots of promises about improving the quality of life for First Nations people, and then seeing the Minister of Indian Affairs talking [...]

It's gotten to the point where absolutely no one thinks First Nations' governments are where they need to be. What should be done about it? Who should do it? What's [...]

Native women are being left exposed to a class of predators whose tactics in some ways resemble those of the pedophiles who staffed the residential schools. So say experts from [...]

Is it, 'from us?' Is it part of the governance package or not? If so why is the national chief supporting it? Those are the key questions First Nations leaders [...]

The federal, government may have apologized for, and acknowledged the existence of, sexual abuse in residential schools, but lawyer Peter Grant says the government is still doing its best to [...]

One Dead Indian, The Premier, The Police and the Ipperwash Crisis By Peter Edwards Stoddart Publishing, Toronto 259 pages $34.95 (hc) The review copy of Toronto Star reporter Peter Edwards [...]

If the old adage that says the first step towards healing is admitting you've got a problem is true, then it appears the first step the fight against racism in [...]

The national chief's idea of how the Assembly of First Nations should work on First Nations governance reform with the Indian Affairs department was delivered to the minister's office on [...]

On Sept. 20, an all-white jury of seven men and five women decided that veteran Saskatoon Police Service constables Dan Hatchen and Ken Munson committed a criminal offence on Jan [...]

As the sixth anniversary of the death of Dudley George approached (Sept. 6), a variety of legal proceedings and the coming release of reporter Peter Edwards' book about the killing [...]

Shots were fired during a clash between Native and nonNative fishermen on the waters of Miramichi Bay on Sept. 16. James Ward of the Mi'kmaq Nation Warrior Society reported that [...]

A Simon Fraser University psychology professor's 30 years of clinical research have convinced him the human animal's natural way of living is not compatible with the values of the free [...]

Assembly of First Nations Chief Matthew Coon Come and the Atlantic chiefs had been on the worst of terms since Coon Come publicly accused First Nations leaders of drinking and [...]

Day three was the final day of the Assembly of First Nations annual general meeting, held in Halifax from July 17 to July 19, and one of the two most [...]

When the federal government allows political organizations to administer social programs, politics and patronage distort the system and erode the quality of the service. So says Metis Senator Thelma Chalifoux, [...]

Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault announced on Aug. 28 that the consultation on his proposed First Nations governance act would resume on Sept. 1 with or without the participation of [...]

The ill-fated Early Years School project involving Wing Construction has spawned two lawsuits, one against the Sagkeeng First Nation of Manitoba and the other against several of its former band [...]

Dwight Dorey, the chief and president of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP), wants to introduce some new ideas to the First Nations governance debate. 'The Royal Commission on Aboriginal [...]

A pre-dawn raid outside of Kamloops saw provincial Ministry of Transportation and Highways workers dismantle a camp set up by First Nations people as a base of operations for protests [...]

It was quite a show when the National Indian Athletic Association (NIAA) brought the game Canadian James Naisrnith's invented home to Canada on April 21. The men's basketball final was [...]

Pete Homer was set up on April 21. Asked to present the widow of his best friend, Alberta's John Fletcher, with a plaque commemorating Fletcher's elevation to the newly established [...]

If Ernie Stevens, Jr. has his way, you'll soon be seeing more Native players in the National Basketball Association and Women's National Basketball Association. Stevens is already a very busy [...]

Angry chiefs changed the wording of a proposed resolution regarding Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault's version of what an independent claims body (ICB) should look like, to toughen up what [...]

First Nations chiefs at the Confederacy of Nations on May 9 told the Assembly of First Nations executive that more urgency needs to be injected into discussions about federal firearms [...]

Former Kamloops Indian band chief Manny Jules, the driving force behind the proposed financial institutions act, explained the details of the initiative to chiefs gathered at the Confederacy of Nations [...]

The creation of an institution that was recommended by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People was announced in downtown Vancouver on May 7. National Chief Matthew Coon Come was present [...]

Angry chiefs gave the national chief and the Assembly of First Nations executive a strong mandate to fight Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault's push to pass legislation he says is [...]

VANCOUVER A documentary film shot during a month-long stay on the Burnt Church First Nation territory last fall will air on the Aboriginal People's Television Network on May 24. Burnt [...]

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. Department of Justice officials probably wish some of their predecessors had had the foresight to see what kind of legal problems the Indian residential school system would bring [...]

VANCOUVER A Department of Fisheries and Oceans posting on MERX, a website that lists available government contracts, lists a position for a treaty fishing fights researcher and expert witness. The [...]

TORONTO Researcher John Siebert has greatly angered Native people in the last few weeks by stating that harm caused to First Peoples' culture and society by the residential school experience [...]

OTTAWA Many good minds with impressive credentials see the adversarial nature of the Canadian justice system as an amplifier for the cultural tensions that exist between Native and non-Native people [...]

OTTAWA Teams of government officials will soon spread out across the country, asking First Nations people what they think the government should do to improve their local governments. Robert Nault, [...]

OTTAWA First Nation chiefs are getting ready to fight the Indian Affairs minister on several fronts as details of how the federal government will change the way First Nations are [...]

OTTAWA An act that the federal government hopes to table within the next several months will 'provide for an integrated system of First Nation financial management, to establish certain First [...]

Most survivors of Indian residential schools believe that both the church and the federal government were responsible for their torment, but one victim and his colleague believe the federal government [...]