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05 Feb Canadian lawyer helps win compensation for indigenous people (The Vancouver Sun)

Posted at 17:20h in News, Posts

Africa's top human rights body, relying partly on a Canadian precedent, issued a landmark ruling Thursday in favour of an indigenous group that has been fighting for justice since the Kenyan government forced them off their land in the 1970s to create a tourist-drawing game...

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...