Alberta Chiefs sagen
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-chiefs-say-afn-has-no-mandate-to-decide-fate-of-infrastructure/
Alberta Chiefs sagen
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-chiefs-say-afn-has-no-mandate-to-decide-fate-of-infrastructure/
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Excerpt from the article:
Several Indigenous leaders from Alberta are warning the Assembly of First Nations not to step on individual First Nations’ authority, treaty rights and jurisdiction to determine the outcome of national infrastructure projects.
Okimaw Henry Lewis of Onion Lake Cree Nation, Chief Sheldon Sunshine of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, Chief Phyllis Whitford of O’Chiese First Nation, and Chief Billy Tuccaro of Mikisew Cree First Nation warned the AFN in a letter: “We must be clear: AFN has no inherent or delegated political authority from our Nations; AFN is not a rights holder, it is a corporation, and it does not hold the mandate to interpret, implement, or represent our Treaties,” the letter stated.
The AFN is a groups which advocates to Indigenous rights…
It is NOT the government of the First Nations people.
Great to see there’s media coverage that some First Nations are pushing back against other First Nations opposed to development projects to exploit our natural resources, and stop pretending all the First Nations across Canada is some sort of unified & homogenized body. A lot of the legacy media has been trying to push the narrative about some false consensus across all of them, when it doesn’t exist.
There are dozens of First Nations, and as the name states, they are all independent of each other, with their own economic interests and viewpoints. With many of them wanting more development (not a surprise these First Nations also happen to be far wealthier than the luddite ones stuck in the past).