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Click here to view original web page at Barbara Cranmer: Documentary filmmaker who highlighted the plight of indigenous people in Canada Barbara Cranmer was an award-winning writer, director and documentary film producer who used film to tell the stories of the indigenous people of Alert Bay, a village on Cormorant …

Thousands of people from Lake St. Martin, Little Saskatchewan, Dauphin River and Pinaymootang First Nations are beginning to see compensation this week from a $90-million settlement from the federal government.

The new area covers a vast, roadless area stretching to the Yukon border in the north, the slopes of the Rockies in the east, the Cassiar Mountains on the west, and to the Rocky Mountain Trench — between the Rockies and the Cassiar — in the south.

A controversial road project in western Saskatchewan could face a First Nations blockade if construction is approved next month, the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations warns.

Thousands of people from Lake St. Martin, Little Saskatchewan, Dauphin River and Pinaymootang First Nations are beginning to see compensation this week from a $90-million settlement from the federal government.

The new area covers a vast, roadless area stretching to the Yukon border in the north, the slopes of the Rockies in the east, the Cassiar Mountains on the west, and to the Rocky Mountain Trench — between the Rockies and the Cassiar — in the south.

A controversial road project in western Saskatchewan could face a First Nations blockade if construction is approved next month, the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations warns.

Click here to view original web page at The Influential First Nations Newspaper Launched With $150 Time was running out for Alfred Adams. It was 1944, and Adams — a Haida Nation elder and leader of the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia — would soon succumb to cancer. In his …

Click here to view original web page at First Nations in Canada First Nations in Canada eBook in EPUB format (EPUB, 3.319 Kb) Introduction First Nations in Canada is an educational resource designed for use by young Canadians; high school educators and students; Aboriginal communities; and anyone interested in First …

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says legislation is coming this fall to create a new Crown corporation to help First Nations gain ownership in oil and gas projects, including the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.