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03 Feb Maori given access to loans to build on ancestral land (The New Zealand Herald)

Posted at 17:30h in News, Posts

Maori who want to move back to ancestral land will now be able to get a $200,000 loan from Kiwibank, with no deposit, to build or buy a home. However, houses will have to be built on wood piles and be in either the North...

30 Jan B.C. government, power company and First Nation reach deal over dam damages (The Daily Gleaner)

Posted at 16:26h in News, Posts

More than four decades after their homes, burial grounds and hunting territories were flooded over to create a dam, members of a B.C. First Nation have been compensated. In 1967, the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation was forced from their Fort Grahame home in the...

29 Jan Spending scandal engulfs native university: Funding cut looms over allegations of questionable expense claims and payouts to senior staff (The Globe and Mail)

Posted at 16:28h in News, Posts

The country's only native-run university may have its government funding cut off within days, imperiling a once-celebrated institution that opened to a lavish royal reception just seven years ago. Saskatchewan's Advanced Education Minister Rob Norris said today that provincial funding for the First Nations University...

Author: Michael Murphy

03 Feb Maori given access to loans to build on ancestral land (The New Zealand Herald)

30 Jan B.C. government, power company and First Nation reach deal over dam damages (The Daily Gleaner)

29 Jan Spending scandal engulfs native university: Funding cut looms over allegations of questionable expense claims and payouts to senior staff (The Globe and Mail)