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    "Leonard Peltier. What's all the fuss about an American Indian Movement activist of the '70s?"

    "The overwhelming majority of local natives stood in silent opposition to Monday's referendum with less than one per cent of eligible voters casting ballots."

    "As a citizen of Canada, and more specifically of South-western Ontario, I must protest the decision of the Ontario government to give the aboriginal peoples priorities in the harvesting of fish and

Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor     "A couple of months ago, George Erasmus was re-elected chief of the conference, he made an eloquent speech which was largely misinterpreted and to which most white commentators reacted badly. In his

Morrisseau, Miles, Southam News, Fall 1992     "There should have been little surprise that the Assembly of First Nations chiefs were unable to endorse the Charlottetown accord in Squamish, B.C., last week."

    "Innu in Davis Inlet say they fear federal-provincial bickering could needlessly delay relocation of their community."

    "About 100 natives drove across the Peace Bridge in a convoy Sunday and refused to pay duty in a peaceful protest against the Canadian government's failure to honor a 199-year-old treaty."

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, Summer 1990     "George Erasmus, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, outlined a model of self-government Thursday night that would give native governments powers similar to those of provinces."

    "John Amagoalik's family was forced to stand on guard for the true north strong and free. But Canada never stood on guard for them. Canada moved them to a strange and distant land from northern Quebe

    "Every day you read the newspaper, there is some trouble that the native people are having with one of the Canadian governments over land ownership and treaties being broken, restrictions being place

    "Natives and sympathizers gathered Sunday under a blistering sun to verbally bash the federal government for lack of involvement in a land claims dispute which has grown into a three-week armed stand

    "Indian Chiefs across Canada criticized the federal government Tuesday for its treatment of natives and said they have the momentum and strength to mount a renewed fight against Ottawa."

    "Some facts and figures on Nunavut- a new territory in Northern Canada to be created as a result of a massive land-claim settlement between the Canadian government and the area's natives."

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, Spring 1993     "The small, yellow-brick building stands alone, shaded by tall trees and overshadowed by the rapid growth of the new building nearby."

    "It is, in the end, the story of one man and one feather. The man is there for history to measure. He has name, age and address: Elijah Harper, 41, of Red Sucker Lake, Northern Manitoba. He has a voi

    Elijah Harper led about 1,000 demonstrators on a peace march through downtown Winnipeg on Sunday."

Turtle Island News, 21 Nov 2012     "The scaffold Prime Minister Stephen Harper erected in January to help boost the independence and prosperity of Canada's First Nations is being corroded by inaction, and risks collapsing in a familia

Gamrot, Sabrina, Brampton Guardian, 18 Nov 2021, p. 28     ...

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 3 Jun 2015     "The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has concluded Canada used Indian residential schools to commit cultural genocide against indigenous people."

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 15 Aug 2012     "All work has come to a stop at the former Burtch Correction Institute lands, slated to be returned to Six Nations Condeferacy, after Ontario pulled a Six Nations Man off the remedial work and replac