Trisha Sutherland says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was right to apologize for the 1885 conviction of Chief Poundmaker, but that it can’t stop there. Sutherland, chief of the One Arrow First Nation in central Saskatchewan, said her community’s namesake was also wrongly convicted. That stain must be wiped away, she said. The government must also exonerate…

Ousted former Liberal cabinet members Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott say they will make announcements Monday about their political futures. The two MPs, who now sit as independents in the House of Commons, were expelled from the Liberal caucus in April by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said that trust with the two former cabinet…

The ailing and embattled lifetime chief of a small Ojibway First Nation in Ontario announced this month he was appointing his wife to replace him at the helm of the community. Edward Machimity has been customary chief of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen, about 400 km north of Thunder Bay, for 34 years, despite repeated attempts over…

A Wolastoqew (Maliseet) logger who’s harvesting lumber from Crown land outside of provincial regulations says an investigation by conservation officers is violating his treaty right to earn a moderate livelihood. Patrick Paul, 30, from St. Mary’s First Nation near Fredericton, N.B., has been running a wholesale firewood operation for three years. He works by himself, harvesting with a chainsaw…

A recently filed court challenge of Ottawa’s Indian day school settlement agreement could stall the deal, according to one of the lawyers behind the legal filing. The filing, with the Quebec Superior Court, argues, among several issues, that the settlement agreement ignored the needs of francophone day school survivors by providing limited and inadequately translated documents. The…

Two men from Garden Hill have been charged with multiple sexual offences against children in the community, Manitoba RCMP say — including one man who had access to a foster home in the Manitoba First Nation. An extensive investigation identified 17 alleged victims of physical or sexual abuse that police say occurred between 2011 and 2017. RCMP could not confirm Thursday if the children identified…