Atlantic Canada: Innu Nation asks court to quash NunatuKavut agreement with Ottawa
The Innu Nation, in Atlantic Canada, is again challenging the Indigenous status of the NunatuKavut Community Council, this time in
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Dene, Métis end self-government talks in Canada’s Northwest Territories
Three land claim organizations in Tulita, N.W.T., have “unanimously” decided to end self-government negotiations with the federal government, according to
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Land-claim talks: Dehcho First Nations, in Northern Canada, put land issues on backburner
The Dehcho First Nations in the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, are using new negotiating tactics in their decades-old land
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Lack of consultation stalling land-claim agreement in Northern Canada, Dene Chief says
Some Akaitcho First Nations leaders says a group of First Nations in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan, in the Canadian Prairies,
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Five things to know about the agreement-in-principle for the Akaitcho land claim in Northern Canada
The key for Akaitcho government negotiators is settling a land-claim agreement that preserves sovereignty. For the past 19 years, Fred
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Northern Canada: Akaitcho land claims & self-government process should be finalized next year, negotiator says
After 19 years, the Akaitcho land claim and self-government processes may soon be finalized. According to the community negotiator for
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Arctic Canada: Nunavut residents see progress, more work as territory turns 20
Twenty years ago, with northern lights and fireworks lighting up the sky, Nunavut became a territory. In Iqaluit on April
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Land claim loan forgiveness to be reinvested in communities, say Indigenous leaders in Northern Canada
Northern Indigenous leaders are welcoming the federal budget decision to erase debt incurred from land claims and treaty negotiations with
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Métis Nation in Northern Canada says Ottawa shortchanged them millions in land claim money
The president of the Northwest Territory Métis Nation says a lack of federal money is holding up its land claim
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Gwich’in council in Arctic Canada strikes out on its own self-government negotiations
The Gwich’in Tribal Council is changing its approach to ongoing self-government negotiations with the federal and Northwest Territories governments. The
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Northern Canadian First Nations reject Ottawa’s land claim offer
The federal government’s latest land claim offer to the Dehcho First Nations (DFN) received an overwhelming thumbs down at the
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Canada moves to recognize NunatuKavut Inuit community in Labrador
The NunatuKavut community in southern and central Labrador (Eastern Canada) is entering into talks with the federal government to negotiate
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Alaska Federation of Natives speaker calls for movement of Native power
FAIRBANKS – An up-and-coming Alaska Native leader called a new-to-Alaska legal mechanism for protecting tribal lands a colonial-era tool and
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Yukon government staffs up to consult First Nations
The government of Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory has created a new position to advise its departments on consultation with First
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BLOG: The exceptionality of Inuit diplomacy
This month marked the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, the largest land claim
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