30 Apr First Nations put pressure on Canada through UN (The Vancouver Sun)
Two Saskatchewan First Nations recently took their fights to the only organization they feel is legally capable of dealing with treaty issues — the United Nations. Evelyn Poitras, a band councilor on the Peepeekisis First Nation, and Wes George, representing the Ochapowace First Nation, appeared before the UN’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on April 22. “It’s an international issue — that’s the forum we belong in rightfully,” Poitras said, after returning to Canada from the offices of the New York-based world body. “Our treaties are not domestic treaties and Canada is always trying to domesticate our treaties is the way we look at it. They’re not domestic, they’re international”… go to article