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July 18, 2022


How a conservative US network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada

This story is a collaboration between Floodlight, The Narwhal and the Guardian. The Narwhal – Internal documents explain why oil and gas interests would benefit from a key Indigenous declaration being ‘defeated’. A U.S.-based libertarian coalition has spent years pressuring the Canadian government to limit how much Indigenous communities can push back on energy development on their own land,...

April 21, 2021


Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations oppose UNDRIP

NationTalk – The Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations opposes Bill C -15 An Act Respecting the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. They see the legislation as undermining their sovereign relationship with the government of Canada, Their treaty is with the crown and they object to Canada negotiating with the Assembly...

December 21, 2020


Russ Diabo APTN Opinion piece

APTN: Russ Diabo, is a member of the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake. He has worked for Indigenous rights for more than 40 years and has served at the Assembly of First Nations as an advisor to two national chiefs. As a writer and editor of the First Nations Strategic Bulletin he has been covering the...

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