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2 aboriginal MPs picked for cabinet for the first time (Vancouver Sun)

Randy Boswell OTTAWA — There have been, throughout Canada's past, numerous aboriginal MPs — Louis Riel among them — as well as cabinet ministers of First Nations and (since 2008) Inuit heritage. But Wednesday's unveiling of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new federal cabinet marked the first time...

18 May, 2011

Indigenous groups want more say at Arctic Council (CBC News)

Some northern indigenous groups want the Arctic Council to give them the right to vote and other powers that are currently reserved for member countries like Canada, the United States and Russia. Groups like the Inuit Circumpolar Council and the Arctic Athabaskan Council want to have...

10 May, 2011

New Report Highlights Why Companies Need to Operate with Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples (PR Newswire)

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Industrial resource extraction is posing grave threats to the survival of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin and there are serious moral, legal and financial reasons for corporations to stem the tide of abuse and respect indigenous peoples'...

03 February, 2011