Michael Murphy

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...

28 Jan Aboriginal school project taking off in Prince George (The Globe and Mail)

Posted at 16:34h in News, Posts

The numbers at Carney Hill public school in downtown Prince George paint a bleak picture of native school life. Eighty-eight per cent of students enrolled are from first nations, yet their attendance rates are dismal and dropout rates are sky high. "We failed them," said...