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03 May Feds promise reform to Arctic development (The Toronto Star)

Posted at 20:07h in News, Posts

A federal government plan to dramatically change the way northern development gets done could reopen aboriginal land claims that took decades to negotiate. Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl says his department has appointed a negotiator to restructure a confusing welter of northern regulatory...

03 May Indigenous group pledges different approach (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Posted at 08:04h in News, Posts

A new national representative body to give indigenous people a voice has been set up as a private company so that the federal government will not be able to sack the leaders, its architects say. The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples was launched yesterday...

01 May Native languages in peril: report (The Vancouver Sun)

Posted at 08:09h in News, Posts

First Nations languages in British Columbia are in deep trouble and most will be lost within six years if immediate steps aren’t taken to improve language education, says a new report. The grim assessment was made at a conference Friday by the First Peoples’ Heritage,...