The Assembly of First Nations has lost its way and is now "in limbo," having over its 40-year history slowly come under the influence of the Liberal Party of Canada, says the former national chief who created it.
A new report says there is no evidence that Thomas Lagarde dit St. Jean, a man born in the early 1800s near Montreal, was in fact Algonquin. This is significant, because more than 1,000 Canadians claim to be Algonquin because Lagarde is one of their ancestors.
Criticism of the sponsorships relates to two proposed nuclear waste sites one for northern Ontario in Treaty 9 territory, the other in Chalk River on unceded Algonquin territory.
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