This week’s edition includes water stewardship, treaty breaches, repatriation, community safety and more.
IN THE NEWS
National headlines featured water stewardship, financial sovereignty, housing and funding for searches at former residential schools
Meet the 1st Indigenous woman to be a commissioner with the International Joint Commission | CBC News
Indigenous-owned banking services expand in hopes of filling access gaps | CBC News
Overcrowding, substandard housing associated with First Nation fire deaths, report finds | CBC News
Opposition grows to federal cuts to unmarked grave search program | APTN News
Treaty obligations and mining were top stories in the North
N.W.T. Indigenous govts have their eyes on Robinson treaty settlement negotiations in Ontario | CBC News
Yukon premier says he won’t halt mining on First Nation but will pause new projects | APTN News
BC stories included the Chilcotin River landslide, repatriation, fishing rights, land defence and transborder issues
B.C. landslide: First Nations initiating emergency salmon task force | Global News
One of the world's oldest sacred shrines could return to remote Indigenous settlement in B.C. | Windspeaker
First Nations in B.C. take federal government, companies to court over fish-farm extension | CBC News
Amnesty International declares Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief 'prisoner of conscience,' calls for release | CBC News
Group of Alaska Tribes demands pause on B.C. mining project upstream of ‘ecological hotspot’ | Canada's National Observer: Climate News *
Oil sands and environmental health topped Alberta headlines
‘Industry will be held accountable’: Feds allocate $12 million to study oil sands impacts in Fort Chipewyan | IndigiNews
Saskatchewan news covered a land transfer and agricultural settlement
Province supports Montreal Lake Cree Nation in establishing Molanosa as reserve land | Battlefords Now
Sask. First Nation agrees to $152M agricultural settlement with Ottawa | CBC News
Treaty No. 1 celebrations, community safety and a court action were front and centre in Manitoba
First Nations celebrate 153rd anniversary of signing of Treaty No. 1 | Winnipeg Sun
Dakota Tipi First Nations turns to evictions to curb drug trade | APTN News
Dakota Tipi First Nation sues The Forks, governments, for financial compensation and ownership of land | CBC News
Ontario headlines included a specific claim settlement, nuclear waste and treaty issues
Lac Seul First Nation to receive $234M in compensation for historical flood claim | CBC News
First Nations declare opposition to nuclear waste project | NWO News Watch
‘We didn’t sign that treaty’: in Canada, the Anishinaabe fight for land they never gave up | The Guardian
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
This is our land, we are the ones who know how to deal with this.”
- Chief Joe Alphonse, chair of the Tŝilhqot'in National Government
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
With joy, we breach the haze of suffering that denies us creativity and literature. Joy is art is an ethics of resistance.
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body (2020)
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