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First Nation child welfare battle continues in Federal Court (2/15/2012)
(Ottawa) -- Lawyers were back in Federal Court today arguing about whether a decision by the Human Rights Tribunal should be overturned.
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Canadian denounce lack of funding for Aboriginal children (2/14/2012)
(Ottawa) -- Hundreds of people came to the Canadian parliament on Tuesday to denounce the lack of funding for Aboriginal children. The activists have launched a campaign...
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Case argues systematic discrimination against First Nations children (2/14/2012)
(Ottawa) -- Sweet-smelling smoke from a smudging ceremony filled an Ottawa courtroom Monday as a controversial case began that could open the door for First Nations...
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Court told First Nations' children underfunded (2/14/2012)
(Ottawa) -- Sweet-smelling smoke from a smudging ceremony filled an Ottawa courtroom Monday as a controversial case began that could open the door for First Nations...
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Federal court hears arguments in First Nations chlid welfare case (2/14/2012)
(Ottawa) -- The Federal court began to hear arguments on whether a ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal should be overturned.
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Government still trying to assimilate aboriginals by underfunding child welfare, natives argue (2/14/2012)
(Ottawa) -- The federal government continues to use assimilationist policies — such as those perpetrated by decades of residential schools — by consistently...
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Supporters pack Federal court hearing on First Nations child welfare (2/14/2012)
(Ottawa) -- The Federal court was packed with people for hearings into whether the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal erred when it dismissed a complaint against Ottawa over...
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First Nations child welfare on the line in Federal Court (2/11/2012)
(Alberta) -- Is the federal government discriminating against First Nations children on reserve by giving them less money for education, health and child-welfare...
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“Children should not have to ask for equal rights” (2/8/2012)
(Geneva) -- Nearly a dozen First Nation student ambassadors had the world stage all to themselves this week in Geneva. They were addressing the United Nation’s...
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Attawapiskat Crisis
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More Attawapiskat homes en route over ice road (2/14/2012)
(Ontario) -- A convoy carrying two more modular homes for the people of Attawapiskat is on its way to the native community facing a housing crisis. The flatbed trucks...
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Three homes arrive in Attawapiskat (2/13/2012)
(Ontario) -- Three new, modern familysized homes have arrived in Attawapiskat, but no one in the northern Ontario First Nation facing a severe housing crisis can move...
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Attawakpiskat modular homes ready for delivery (2/10/2012)
(Ontario) -- The remote northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat will be receiving this weekend the first two modular homes promised by the federal...
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Homes finally headed to Attawapiskat (2/10/2012)
(Ontario) -- The first of many pre-fabricated homes are finally headed to Attawapiskat, months after the troubled Aboriginal community was thrust into the national...
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“We’ve learned to live with pain and hurt,” says Attawapiskat resident (2/8/2012)
(Ontario) -- Twenty-two homes built for Attawapiskat sit hundreds of kilometers in the south waiting for the trip north.
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Delayed Attawapiskat homes expected to ship soon (2/7/2012)
(Canada) -- A convoy of modular homes left languishing in Moosonee instead of being en route to desperate residents in Attawapiskat is expected to go on the move again...
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Attawapiskat-bound homes delayed (2/6/2012)
(Canada) -- Modular homes en route to the northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat have been delayed because their lots are not yet ready, CBC News has...
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Attawapiskat homes to start final leg of journey (2/3/2012)
(Ontario) -- Modular homes destined for the beleaguered First Nation settlement of Attawapiskat could start moving along an ice road next week as the vital link to...
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OP/ED: The mishandling of the situation in Attawapiskat is coming home to roost (2/2/2012)
(Ontario) -- The mishandling of the situation in Attawapiskat is coming home to roost on the desk of Minister John Duncan. The Minister doesn’t seem to be capable...
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Attawapiskat: Lots of love, and rocks, for a young generation (1/29/2012)
(Ontario) -- At Micheline Okimaw’s White Wolf Inn, the most popular of the two motels in this remote James Bay reserve, visitors to town tend to cross paths. And...
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Benefit concert planned for Attawapiskat (1/13/2012)
(Canada) -- Aboriginal musicians Derek Miller and Digging Roots will perform at a benefit concert Jan. 14 to raise funds for the housing crisis in Attawapiskat.
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First Nation aid group raises funds for furniture (1/12/2012)
(Ontario) -- A humanitarian aid organization is trying to raise $80,000 to furnish new modular homes for Attawapiskat. The federal department of Aboriginal Affairs is...
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Durham First Nation reaches out to Attawapiskat (1/5/2012)
(Ontario) -- A plane packed with water purification kits and hygiene supplies took off from the Oshawa Municipal Airport Thursday morning, on its way to the northern...
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Emergency volunteer team distributes $100K in aid in Attawapiskat (1/5/2012)
(Ontario) -- A provincial volunteer team distributed $100,000 in aid to Attawapiskat on Thursday. The First Nations community in northern Ontario declared an emergency...
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Local First Nation has sent OVERT to assist at Attawapiskat (1/5/2012)
(Ontario) -- A local paramedic and police officer are among the small team of emergency workers on the ground in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat, to carry...
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Canada’s potential is inseparable from aboriginal potential (1/2/2012)
(Canada) -- As Canadians come to better understand the depth and complexity of the crisis in many of Canada’s aboriginal communities, lasting solutions to long-...
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Chief Terrance Nelson: Undeclared Economic Sanctions in Canada (1/1/2012)
(Ontario) -- Attawapiskat First Nation has done a fantastic job of creating debate on the First Nation housing crisis in Canada. The problem is most people still have no...
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Modular homes on their way to Attawapiskat (12/29/2011)
(Ontario) -- Residents of Attawapiskat will be seeing some relief in the coming weeks. Aboriginal Affairs has announced that the twenty-two modular homes are en route to...
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Housing En Route to Attawapiskat (12/28/2011)
(Canada) -- Attawapiskat remains in the public eye as Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in an exclusive interview on CTV, defended oversight measures that effectively...
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Attawapiskat homes inch across northern Ontario (12/26/2011)
(Canada) -- The first modular homes destined for Attawapiskat on James Bay’s west coast have made it about half way. The four homes arrived in Cochrane in northern...
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How one woman is trying to change native people’s health care experience (12/25/2011)
(Canada) -- The crisis in Attawapiskat has left many Canadians feeling confused and dismayed about how such poor living conditions could exist in this country. It has...
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Can a bond offering help cure poverty on Native reserves? (12/22/2011)
(Canada) -- Money, goes conventional wisdom, comes with strings attached. Especially other people’s money. Especially when it comes as lump-sum transfer. And, as...
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MP at odds with grand chief over housing crisis (12/22/2011)
(Canada) -- Penticton’s federal politician has waded into current events surrounding aboriginal housing, but one First Nations leader is suggesting he put recent...
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National Chief Atleo visits Attawapiskat (12/22/2011)
(Ontario) -- Earlier this week, AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo visited Attawapiskat to show support for the embattled community. Atleo was joined by singer Tom Jackson,...
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COLUMN: For first nations, more auditing is not the answer (12/20/2011)
(Canada) -- The Conservatives have always been deeply suspicious – and it’s a suspicion shared by many Canadians – that vast amounts of public money...
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UN official faults Canada's handling of Attawapiskat settlement (12/20/2011)
(Canada) -- Canadian government has come under fire from James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. "I have been in communication...
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Atleo leading delegation to visit Attawapiskat (12/19/2011)
(Ontario) -- Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo is leading a delegation to visit Attawapiskat Tuesday. Atleo will be joined by Akwesasne Grand Chief...
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BLOG: Winter Arriving Faster Than Help in Attawapiskat Crisis (12/19/2011)
(Ontario) -- People in the Northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat are living in crowded, unsanitary, tents heated by makeshift wood stoves. It has been almost two...
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Donations of kitchen items sought for Attawapiskat (12/19/2011)
(Ontario) -- Local aboriginal communities are asking Peterborough residents to donate pots, pans, serving trays and utensils to help assist the displaced people of...
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Government officials to create temporary shelter in Attawapiskat (12/19/2011)
(Ontario) -- Government officials hope to transform a healing lodge into temporary shelter at a troubled Ontario reserve by Christmas. The government's priority this...
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Mohawk Council Grand Cheif Mike Mitchell Tours Attawapiskat (12/19/2011)
(Ontario) -- Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Grand Chief Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell will travel to the Attawapiskat First Nation on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, along with...
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Rae notes reserve's plight not unique (12/19/2011)
(Canada) -- Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae travelled to the troubled Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario Saturday, to witness the residents' living conditions...
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Editorial: One thing about Attawapiskat: Where has all the money gone? (12/17/2011)
(Ontario) -- The remote native reserve of Attawapiskat in northern Ontario made headlines recently for all the usual reasons. According to the last census, the reserve...
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A Christmas wish list for our many Attawapiskats (12/16/2011)
(Ontario) -- They may be closer to the North Pole, but the aboriginal people of Northern Ontario have a much harder time grabbing Santa's attention, apparently, than...
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Attawapiskat healing lodge retrofit approval needed (12/16/2011)
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan says he is "hopeful" that a healing lodge on the remote Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat can be retrofitted...
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Duncan to Chief Spence: let our people onto Attawapiskat, please (12/16/2011)
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan requested again Friday that government housing officials be allowed onto the northern Ontario First Nation of...
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Lorne Gunter: Attawapiskat wants the money, not the manager (12/16/2011)
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and his parliamentary secretary, Greg Rickford, met with leaders from the James Bay Cree community of Attawapiskat...
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COLUMN: How first nations can own their future (12/16/2011)
(Canada) -- Reports of people living in tents and shacks at Attawapiskat evoke comparisons with the Third World, with people living in the shantytowns of South Africa...
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Ottawa’s assurances on third-party management for Attawapiskat fall flat (12/16/2011)
(Ottawa) -- Even a brief period under third-party management is too much for Attawapiskat, according to a local grand chief. Stan Louttit of the Mushkegowuk Council,...
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Duncan promises new school for Attawapiskat (12/15/2011)
(Ontario) -- The troubled northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat will remain under third-party management for now, but Aboriginal Affairs Minister John...
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Eastern Band of Cherokee
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A Safe Haven in the Carolinas: Eastern Band of Cherokees Create Memory-Care Unit (12/18/2011)
(North Carolina) -- For the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, located in Cherokee, North Carolina, the soon-to-open memory-care unit of the Tsali Care nursing facility...
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Other News
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Ban on Oxy without detox will trigger another crisis: NAN (2/21/2012)
(Ontario) -- The organization representing thousands of northern Ontario band members says a serious crisis is looming.
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Labrador Inuit community faces water crisis (2/21/2012)
(Labrador) -- A small Inuit community in Labrador has declared a state of emergency. The community of Hopedale on the eastern shores of Labrador is struggling to provide...
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Let’s Move initiative shows promise in Indian Country (2/21/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- During the past three decades, rates of childhood obesity has tripled. Today, nearly one in three children in the U.S. are overweight or obese.
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SEARHC faces $4M loss from 2011, CEO says (2/21/2012)
(Alaska) -- The new head of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium says the organization is losing money, and that difficult changes are on the way.
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Native Sun News: Book offers hope to autoimmune sufferers (2/20/2012)
(South Dakota) -- An energetic college cheerleader from Whitewood, South Dakota, Annesse Brockley unexpectedly paled to shadow of her former self when an autoimmune...
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FORUM: Journal story shows harm of foster care (2/20/2012)
(South Dakota) -- On Jan. 22, the Rapid City Journal told the stories of four children taken from their parents, only to be moved from foster home to foster home, ill...
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Tiguas to close their Olympic-size pool (2/18/2012)
(Texas) -- Everybody out of the pool. The area's only heated Olympic-sized swimming pool will close for good at the Tigua's Recreation and Wellness Center in Socorro.
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Legislature lifts deadline on reservation nursing home construction (2/17/2012)
(South Dakota) -- A new nursing home might be coming soon to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after the South Dakota Legislature voted Thursday to remove an impending...
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Human rights tribunal not proper forum for FN child welfare funding issues: Ottawa’s lawyer (2/16/2012)
(Ottawa) -- Lawyers were in Federal Court again today arguing about whether a ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal should be overturned.
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Manitoba union loses bid to halt Phoenix Sinclair inquiry (2/16/2012)
(Manitoba) -- The union representing Manitoba's child-welfare and social workers has lost a court bid to quash a public inquiry into the abuse and death of Phoenix...
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Homeless teens found in Midlands neighborhoods (2/16/2012)
(South Carolina) -- 11,000 people live in Irmo. But not all of them have homes. "Traditionally, Irmo, Dutch Fork, Chapin, they consider that to be the 'rich...
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Community upset over shoddy homes built by Quebec (2/15/2012)
(Canada) -- The Anishinabe community of Maigan Agik was hoping to spend a warm winter in their newly renovated houses. That was the promise made by the government of...
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‘No evidence’ Sto:lo shooting linked to child services: Grand Chief Hall (2/15/2012)
(British Columbia) -- Sto:lo Nation president Joe Hall says there’s “no evidence at all” that a gunshot through a window of the nation’s...
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Indian Health Service Gets Record Request in Obama 2013 Budget; BIA Level (2/14/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Indian Health Service (IHS) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) fare well under President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for 2013. In fact...
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Advocate Frank LaMere Talks About Battles Shaping Indian Child Welfare (2/14/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) has been in the news lately. A National Public Radio (NPR) series exposed horrific child-welfare injustices in...
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Cheyenne River’s ICWA Director Discusses Challenges of Protecting Tribe’s Youngsters (2/14/2012)
(Wyoming) -- Too many Native parents face extraordinary hurdles in keeping their children—including cultural misunderstandings and legal barriers that are...
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City of Fargo joins with Native American groups for wellness center proposal (2/14/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Two-thirds of Native Americans in North Dakota live below the poverty level. With that number in mind, the city of Fargo, Native American groups and...
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Red Lake Fitness Center celebrates grand opening (2/14/2012)
(Minnesota) -- The first thing one notices when entering the southwest door of the Red Lake Humanities Center (also now known as the Red Lake Recreation Center) is how...
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Pat's Pantry collecting food for local Native Americans (2/13/2012)
(Florida) -- A local woman is collecting canned goods for Native Americans in South Georgia and North Florida.
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Veterans center at Tribal Complex nears next phase (2/13/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Roof panels are now covering the Veterans Service Center at the Tribal Complex as the Cherokee Nation prepares for the next phase in the construction...
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