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09.07.2021 / 14:37

RoseAnne Archibald elected first female national chief of Assembly of First Nations

RoseAnne Archibald, Ontario’s former regional chief, is making history as she’s been elected the first woman national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, succeeding Perry Bellegarde.

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Residential schools: What we know about their history and how many died

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), a body mandated to tell Canadians about the truth of residential schools, spent years collecting survivors’ stories and compiling historical evidence of what happened there. The TRC issued a series of reports in 2015, describing what it learned.Last week, the remains of 215 children were uncovered in unmarked burial sites where the Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C. was located.“It’s tragic, it’s horrifying and it was painful,” Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said of the discovery in an interview with Global News on Monday.

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Bellegarde says Canada must close gap for Indigenous People amid COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic, the outgoing head of the Assembly of First Nations said Tuesday.“That gap amplifies every threat and every harm from this pandemic, from the risk of infection to the stress of lockdown,” National Chief Perry Bellegarde said in remarks to the virtual general assembly of the national political advocacy organization he has led since 2014. Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde will not seek re-election “It is a rift that is both deep and wide.

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Assembly of First Nations chief will not seek re-election

Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) said he won’t seek re-election as the head of the organization next summer.Bellegarde, who has served in the role since 2014, said in a series of tweets that he has successfully advocated for laws protecting Indigenous children and languages as well as a new bill to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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Coronavirus cases rising at alarming rate in Indigenous communities

COVID-19 cases during the last few weeks.Miller says 673 COVID-19 cases have been reported in First Nations communities in all, and about 130 of them are active cases now.He says Indigenous communities were successful in facing the first wave of COVID-19 with measures that limited the spread of the virus.The measures included closing communities to outsiders, imposing local restrictions on gatherings and making sure that people were observing basic health and hygiene protocols.Reopening schools and businesses and places where physical distancing is not possible are all factors in the rise.Perry Bellegarde, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, says First Nations communities are among the most vulnerable populations in Canada

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Canada’s Indigenous leaders say more help is needed as COVID-19 outbreaks rise

First Nations, Inuit and Metis leaders are raising concern about a growing number of outbreaks of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities and say it’s getting harder to find the money and supplies to deal with them.

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Supplies, food a concern as northern Saskatchewan deals with coronavirus outbreak

Questions about access to food and supplies are emerging as health officials and community leaders work to contain an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Saskatchewan’s far north.

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AFN chief calls COVID-19 outbreak in Saskatchewan’s far north alarming

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) says an outbreak of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan’s far north is alarming.

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‘We need to act now’: Indigenous leaders say coronavirus funding won’t go far enough

Indigenous leaders from across Canada say they are worried supports promised by the federal government to help First Nations, Inuit and Metis deal with the fallout of COVID-19 might not do enough to prevent the most vulnerable people from falling through the cracks.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0