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Indigenous peoples want conflict resolution within own communities, conference told 0
- Local News, News
- January 9, 2019
Approaches to conflict dispute resolution are different in the Indigenous family context and legal professionals need to educate themselves on cultural variances in order to ethically and effectively assist them, explained Katherine Hensel to attendees of the Family Dispute Institute of Ontario’s annual conference on family dispute resolution. Hensel, founder and principal lawyer at Hensel
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Lecture to explore past to build better futures with Indigenous people 0
- Local News, News
- January 9, 2019
BRANTFORD — Building a better relationship between Canadians and Indigenous people in the future starts with understanding the past, says Darren Thomas. He’ll be exploring that idea in a free public lecture in Brantford on Wednesday, Jan. 16. Thomas is a lecturer in the Indigenous Studies program at Laurier Brantford and a Ph.D candidate in community
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Bought for a buck, now priceless: Indigenous Alberta media archive digitized 0
- National, News
- January 9, 2019
EDMONTON — He bought them for a dollar. Now, “boxes and boxes and boxes” of old audiotape and film that Bert Crowfoot has safeguarded for decades are turning out to be a priceless trove of Indigenous stories, culture and language. “This is a continuation of our oral traditions,” said Crowfoot, who’s helping direct a project
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Judge allows tribes to challenge Corps’ Dakota Access study 0

BISMARCK, ND — A federal judge is allowing four Native American tribes in the Dakotas to challenge the recent conclusion of federal officials that a Dakota Access oil pipeline spill wouldn’t unfairly affect them, further prolonging a court case that has lingered for more than two years. The Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Yankton and Oglala

Tina Fontaine’s cousin killed during botched drug debt collection: Crown 0

WINNIPEG — The cousin of a teenager whose death fuelled calls to stop violence against Indigenous women was herself killed in a botched attempt to collect on a drug debt, jurors at a manslaughter trial were told Monday. Jeanenne Chantel Fontaine, who was 29, was shot in March 2017 before the house she was in

AFN says RCMP pipeline intervention a violation of rights 0

HOUSTON, BC — The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the use of force against people peacefully protesting the construction of a pipeline in northern British Columbia is a violation of their human and aboriginal rights. Fourteen people have been taken into custody at a blockade southwest of Houston, B.C., where some