This week’s edition includes specific claims, Louis Riel, Treaty rights, Métis rights, and more.
IN THE NEWS
Harvesting rights were back in Nova Scotia headlines
DFO, four Mi’kmaw nations renew interim agreement to harvest lobster | APTN News
Ontario news featured Métis rights, treaty rights and our client, Temagami First Nation and Teme-Augama Anishnabai, taking legal action to defend their rights
First Nations remain committed to protecting their Inherent and Treaty Rights | Anishinabek News
First Nations in northeastern Ontario and their $10-billion dilemma | Sudbury Star
TFN and TAA begin legal action over Pond Lake cabin | Penticton Herald
Louis Riel was in the news in Manitoba
Riel law will make leader Honourary First Premier of Manitoba | APTN News
Specific claims were front and centre in Saskatchewan
Sask. First Nations call on province, feds to rescind policy that withholds income assistance for recipients | CBC News
Province reverses policy withholding ‘specific claims’ from First Nations people | Northeast Now
Land protection, self-determination and salmon conservation topped headlines in BC
Indigenous rights collide with $35B Western Canada pipeline expansion | Global News
Divers swimming with salmon in remote B.C. streams to enhance conservation | Clearwater Times
Largest First Nation in B.C. votes to take authority over child and family services for its members | CBC News
A legal battle over consultation returned to the court in Yukon
Court hears Yukon government appeal over quashing of exploration project in Beaver River watershed | CBC News
National news included Indian Act reform, the federal economic update and water legislation
Assembly of First Nations Responds to Federal Government’s Fall Economic Statement - Assembly of First Nations
Indigenous loan guarantee applauded by major projects coalition - Economy, Law & Politics | Business in Vancouver
Statement - Canada launches an Indigenous Advisory Process on broader reform of the Indian Act | Newswire
Feds' water legislation needs to do better around Indigenous rights | APTN News
FROM THE COURTS
The Nunavut Court of Justice weighed in on hunting rights and the Charter
R. v. Qiyuk et al., 2023 NUCJ 25
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Those treaties are sacred covenants – a pledge, commitment and honouring between the government of the day and chiefs of the day.
- Chief Bobby Cameron, Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN)
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
Some seeds need fire to sprout. What if you’re that seed?
- Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper (2021)