03 Sep Native leaders consider action during Games: Mainstream chiefs, while distancing themselves from militants, discuss ‘assertive strategies’ to draw world attention to issues (The Globe and Mail)
With the 2010 Winter Olympics little more than five months away, B.C. native leaders are looking toward the Games as a way to highlight their increasingly rocky relationship with the provincial government. Despite the unprecedented participation of aboriginal communities in the Games, leaders say they have not ruled out targeting the Olympics as an example of the continuing erosion of aboriginal title in the province… go to article