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First Nations talk blockades in bid to win HST exemption (Times Colonist)

First Nations in Ontario vowed Friday to continue to fight the provincial and federal governments for a complete exemption from paying the new harmonized sales tax, calling it a blatant violation of historic aboriginal treaties. Two reserves in northern Ontario are planning a railway blockade...

14 May, 2010

Sovereignty was never ceded – iwi (The New Zealand Herald)

The country's largest tribe, Ngapuhi, says it never gave up sovereignty to the Crown - the idea that its chiefs surrendered their mana to Queen Victoria defies belief, the Waitangi Tribunal was told yesterday. Northern leader Erima Henare's opening remarks at the inquiry - where...

11 May, 2010

Crown and Tainui seal river agreement (The New Zealand Herald)

Tainui and the Crown will jointly govern, restore and protect the Waikato River under the terms of a Treaty of Waitangi claim settlement enacted by Parliament yesterday. The public galleries of the debating chamber were packed with iwi members and the Maori King, Tuheitia, was...

07 May, 2010