This week’s edition includes AFN's new National Chief, carbon pricing, consultation, conservation, class actions and more.
IN THE NEWS
National news featured AFN's new National Chief, class actions and proposed federal legislation
A long battle now behind it, the AFN has a new national chief | Windspeaker
National Chief Woodhouse thanks family, teachings for getting her to top job | northeastNOW
First Nations leaders and Métis groups in dispute over Bill C-53 | Alberta Native News
Federal Court of Canada Appoints Settlement Implementation Committee to Compensate First Nations Children and Families | Assembly of First Nations
Class members have three months to submit their claims under the First Nations Drinking Water Settlement | Newswire
Indigenous services minister to table First Nations water bill as early as Monday | CP24
Resource protection and stewardship were top stories in Quebec
Listuguj Mi'gmaq Government calls for moratorium on shrimp fishery in the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence | Newswire
Atikamekw community signs relationship framework with provincial government | The Record
Ontario news included carbon pricing and treaty rights
Optimism shared over Robinson Huron Treaty annuities case | toronto.com
Behind First Nations’ demands for climate tax exemptions | Canada's National Observer: Climate News
A lawsuit, municipal partnerships and consultation made headlines across the prairies
Manitoba Hydro dams caused decades of harm to Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, lawsuit alleges | CBC News
SaskPower has signed an engagement agreement with Ya’ thi Néné Lands and Resources | MBC Radio
Agreement to forge new partnerships for municipalities, First Nations | Hamilton Spectator
New cultural centre in Pheasant Rump will be space to practise, preserve Nakota culture and language: chief | CBC News
BC news featured Métis rights, harvesting rights, conservation, a new Chief Justice, repatriation and human rights
FNLC Supports BC’s Release of Distinctions-Based Approach Primer and Clarification of BC’s Position on Métis Rights | UBCIC
Klahoose First Nation secures logging rights on their traditional territory | Global News
How BC Is Tackling a ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Its Forests | The Tyee
Colleagues hail appointment of 1st Indigenous B.C. Chief Justice in court's history | CBC News
Port Hardy First Nations request return of 17 masks | Victoria Times Colonist
Amnesty International reports 'ongoing violations' of human rights on Wet'suwet'en territory | CBC News
Thanks to everyone who stopped by the First Peoples Law booth at the AFN AGA last week to say hello, pick up a hat and enter our raffle. See you next time!
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
United, we will continue to grow First Nations’ impact on decision-making in our traditional territories, Ottawa and internationally.
- National Chief Cindy Woodhouse, Assembly of First Nations
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
Our presence is our weapon, and this is visible to me at every protest, every mobilization, every time a Two Spirit person gifts us with a dance at our powwows, every time we speak our truths, every time we embody Indigenous life.
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (2017)