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    "While native activists have been protesting with blockades and challenges to government authority this summer, there's been a quiet revolution of a different kind on several Canadian Indian reserves

    "A Parti Quebecois' promise to give natives royalties from natural resources is probably a "public relations gimmick," aimed at winning support for their sovereignty option, Ovide Mercredi said Wedne

Aubry, Jack, The Ottawa Citizen, 9 Sep 1995     "The fatal shooting of a 38-year-old Chippewa Indian at Ipperwash Provincial Park in southwestern Ontario makes it official."

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 9 Dec 1998     New Band Council takes oath of office By Lynda Powless, Editor Six Nations 51st Band Council and second "custom" council has taken office after the new band council members were swam in last Tuesday.

Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor     "Before the Ayatollah Khomeini died, there was a great uproar over Salman Rushdie's novel, Satanic Verses. In this western society we live in we have grown used to the freedom to question religion, g

Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor, Winter 1992     "Long before the white Europeans arrived the Iroquois had developed unique ideas about politics and government."

    "Grand Chief Phil Fontaine was relieved."

Duric, Donna, Turtle Island News, 17 Dec 2014     Elected Chief Ava Hill urges involvement in AFN restructuring By Donna Duric, Writer Six Nations Elected Chief Ava Hill took absent First Nations Chiefs to task last week during her presentation on t

    "Former Chief Justice Brian Dickson is thanked by Ovide Mercredi, a 45-year-old Cree lawyer who was elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations at the organization's annual meeting in Win

    "Inuit leaders signed a landmark deal qith the Quebec government Thursday laying out a framework for talks leading to the establishment of an autonomous regional government."

Brantford Expositor, 11 Sep 1995     "The Six Nations Fall Fair and Powwow is traditionally a time for fun, friends and Indian culture."

Barnsley, Paul, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 5 Apr 1995, pp.1, 3     Bureau of Indian Affairs supports Bowen in Seneca Nation dispute by Paul Barnsley CATTARAUGUS - The Bureau of Indian Affairs has decided it will do business with President Dennis J. Bowen. The decisi

    "When Kanesatake Mohawks and federal negotiators sit down at the bargaining table in January for the first time in two years, their discussions will focus on far more than contentious land claims."

    "'If there is ever a time when Indian people must stand united, the time is now,' says Roland Crowe. chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, which recently voted to rejoin the Assembl

Moses, David A., Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 28 Jul 1999, pp.1-2     AFN Conference centres on North-South unity by David A. Moses VANCOUVER, B.C. - Sixty years ago, members of both Canadian and American First Nations were invited by the University of Toronto to a joi

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 9 Jan 2013     Prime Minister agrees to meet with First Nation leaders By Lynda Powless, Editor The Assembly of First Nations is co-ordinating a delegation of First Nations leaders to meet with Prime Minister Harpe

Brantford Expositor, 18 Jan 1962     Article detailing the efforts of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council to have their grievances against the Canadian government heard at the United Nations. Issues include the imposition of th

    "Ovide Mercredi said it would be different the second time around. In a stunning, come-from-behind victory early today, Mercredi became the national Indian chief of the most powerful aboriginal organ

Turtle Island News, 9 Jan 2013, pp.12-13     Theresa Spence gets visits by Justin Trudeau, Adam Beach OTTAWA - Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence spent a quiet Christmas morning with her family, opening presents with two of her five daughters. B

    "Ovide Mercredi says Canadians probably will greet his election as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations with a sense of relief."