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By Ryan Paul • May 1st, 2009 • Category: South America • No Comments »
A deadline has passed for non-indigenous residents of an Indian reservation in northern Brazil to leave the area. It follows a that the Raposa Serra d...
By Ryan Paul • May 1st, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
Mohawk leaders say they will oppose the federal government’s plan to begin arming border guards next month, if guards at Ontario’s Cornwal...
By Ryan Paul • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: United States • No Comments »
A U.S. federal judge dismissed a key charge against one of two men accused in the 1975 slaying of a Canadian aboriginal activist and scheduled a heari...
By Ryan Paul • Apr 29th, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
Pope Benedict XVI expressed “sorrow” to a delegation from Canada’s Assembly of First Nations on Wednesday over the abuse and “...
By Ryan Paul • Apr 27th, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
A plan to build a First Nations owned and operated casino in southwestern Manitoba has been scrapped once again. Talks between owners of the building ...
By Ryan Paul • Apr 26th, 2009 • Category: United States • No Comments »
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says $500 million in federal stimulus money will go to American Indian tribes across the U.S. f...
By Ryan Paul • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
Wildlife officials in Labrador have confirmed that an Innu hunter has been arrested for poaching an animal in a protected group of caribou. The Depart...
By Ryan Paul • Apr 23rd, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
Heated debate shook the Yukon legislature Thursday, as the opposition NDP demanded to know how the government plans to deal with recent decisions by s...
By Ryan Paul • Apr 23rd, 2009 • Category: Canada • No Comments »
Federal Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said Ottawa is ready to help First Nations communities in Manitoba hit hard by flooding. At the height of...
By Ryan Paul • Apr 22nd, 2009 • Category: Canada • 1 Comment »
The chief of a Manitoba First Nation has been charged with theft and fraud related to money stolen from an aboriginal health group. David Traverse, ch...