Indigenous Peoples

 June 21 is National Aboriginal Day. There are various activities and ceremonies happening throughout the Prairies and in Canada.  For instance on June 21, The Forks in Winnipeg has sunrise and sunset ceremonies and well as day long activities and entertainment. 

Presently in Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick there are 50 families that have been removed from their homes due to major flooding. As of today we do not have the final tally of the damage that was done to the Tobique Fist Nation. 

More than 100 PSAC members gathered in Yellowknife to walk down the “Path that Unites us” – the theme of this year's National Aboriginal Peoples' Conference. Delegates shared experiences, heard from some veteran Aboriginal activists and planned ways to move the National Aboriginal Peoples' Network into its next stage of growth.

October 4th is the day we honour the lives of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls; on October 4th 2011 call on the federal government to stop ignoring this national crisis and take action.

NAPC Prairies Reps Alisha Bigelow and Alex George send greetings for National Aboriginal Day.

On June 21 National Aboriginal Day, we honour Aboriginal Peoples across Canada. We celebrate their contributions, recognize their struggles, and stand together in solidarity to fight against the continued mistreatment and abuse from the Harper Conservatives.

The PSAC National Aboriginal Peoples' Conference will be held September 30 to October 2, 2011 at the Explorer Hotel and the Yellowknife Inn in Yellowknife, NT, under the theme “The Path that Unites us”.

 We have been in contact with the Native Womens Association of Canada (NWAC) and the New Democratic Party Aboriginal Affairs Critic Jean Crowder. There is some new concern that the Conservative government will not fulfill their promise to fund the Sisters in Spirit project.(See the Native Women's Association of Canada website for more information on the Sisters in Spirit project)