London, Ontario December 16th, 2024 – Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Minister Gary Anandasangaree has confirmed that Bill C-53 will not be moving forward in a meeting with the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAN) on Monday December 9th. If the Bill was passed it would provide recognition...
THE ASSOCIATION OF IROQUOIS AND ALLIED INDIANS SALUTES
VETERANS FOR REMEMBRANCE DAY AND INDIGENOUS VETERANS DAY
London, Ontario November 8th, 2024 – Many Native peoples left their community to serve during many different engagements despite the risk and cost to their lives, but they did so out of duty to family, and community. Many don’t know the hardships Indigenous Veteran’s went through and received very little...
SPECIAL CHIEFS ASSEMBLY ENDS IN A DISAPPOINTING DECISION
London, Ontario October 23rd, 2024 – A decision at the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), in which Nations from the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI) was in attendance, came to a disappointing conclusion that may see a lengthy delay when it comes to the First Nations Child and...
AIAI RECOGNIZES ORANGE SHIRT DAY AND THE NATIONAL DAY
FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
London, Ontario September 30th, 2024 – When Phyllis Webstad went away to school wearing her orange shirt she would never have guessed the events that were put into motion or how what she went through would lead to becoming what it is today on September 30th. The National Day for...
AIAI ACKNOWLEDGES THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
APOLOGY WITH RESERVATIONS
London, Ontario September 19th, 2024 – The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) recently issued a national public apology in the damage it has done to the Indigenous Peoples in the Health Care system and the roles it has played in many events that have caused so much harm to the Native...
TIME FOR CANADA TO REVERSE COURSE AND SUPPORT TRC CALLS TO ACTION
London, Ontario August 16, 2024 – The Federal Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund (RSMCCS) has been reduced from it’s original cap of $3 million to $500,000 per year. This is an 86 percent reduction of funds that was to be used to locate missing children and unmarked burials...
FEDERAL COURT APPROVES FIRST NATIONS CHILD WELFARE SETTLEMENT
London, Ontario October 26th, 2023 – For more than 15 years after the Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society launched a human-rights complaint a Federal Court Judge has verbally approved a landmark $23 billion settlement that will see Ottawa repay more than 300,000...
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