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Aubry, Jack, The Ottawa Citizen, Fall 1992     "If Canadians are not going to allow aboriginal self-government, then the time has arrived for Indians to claim it for themselves, including making their own laws, an angry national chief Ovide Mercr

    "It's time to stop talking and start acting on native justice issues, says Justice Minister Kim Campbell."

    "Justice Minister Allan Rock appointed two natives as federal judges Friday, bringing to three the number of aboriginals on the federal bench."

Bryden, Joan, Southam News, Winter 1994     "Wounds from past constitutional wars were ripped open again Wednesday as a Mohawk leader accused the Bloc Quebecois of leading a crusade to discredit his people and deny them their sovereign rights.

Aubry, Jack, The Ottawa Citizen, Fall 1991     "National Indian chiefs slammed the federal government's native self-government proposals Tuesday as a 'total betrayal'."

    "Indian Act regulations allowing government officials to arrest people on Indian reserves and burn down their houses on suspicion of them having an infectious disease are being scrapped."

    "The Assembly of First Nations said Wednesday it is willing to be a partner in the new Constitution if natives are treated as equals and granted self-government."

    "Native protestors plan to present a petition to Prime Minister Jean Chretien today urging Ottawa not to remove income tax exemptions for thousands of Indians."

    "Mohawks are relatively new immigrants to Canada, so they can't claim an aboriginal right to duty-free and easy passage across the Canada-U.S. border, a federal government lawyer says."

    "Bloc Quebecois members tabled a bill in the Commons on Wednesday asking for annulment of the guilty verdict against Metis leader Louis Riel, hanged in 1885"

Levitz, Stephanie, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 12 Dec 2012     "After about six hours, a series of votes to amend the Conservative government's latest omnibus budget bill failed."

Windle, Jim, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 5 Dec 2012     "Thousands of documents relative to Canada's involvement in the failed residential schools assimilation experiment are being withheld from the ongoing Truth and Reconciliation Commission."

Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 3 Dec 1997     "Alberta Native Bands will have lawyers plead before the Supreme Court today that the Bands on reserves should continue to choose who their members are, not bureaucrats in office towers in Ottawa."

Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 17 Dec 2003     ...

Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 17 Dec 2008     "This International Day for Human Rights, on December 10th marks the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)."

Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 17 Dec 1997     "Aboriginal leaders have written Prime Minister Jean Chretien to complain about being excluded from a first ministers meeting that begins today."

Aubry, Jack, The Ottawa Citizen, 4 Sep 1991     "A proposal for special courts with "community laws" for natives is one of several contained in a federal discussion paper which leaves the door open for creation of a separate native justice system.

Rennie, Steve, Turtle Island News, 30 Apr 2014     "The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) finds himself in the difficult spot of supporting a Harper government bill that one of his chief political rivals described Monday as an aff

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 4 Feb 2015     "It took three months and a rushed meeting but Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally met with the Assembly of First Nations Nations leader last week."

Turtle Island News, 17 Jun 1998, pp.1-2     Aboriginal women oppose divorce bill OTTAWA - Aboriginal women applied for an injunction last Wednesday against a federal bill that would give band councils on reserves the power to decide who gets t