OTTAWA-Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak is addressing the opening of the AFN’s Annual General Assembly today. The AFN is expected to focus on major projects and a coming meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premiers. Woodhouse Nepinak began the day Monday by participating in the first annual Water Walk along the Kichi-Zibi (Ottawa) River on “unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Territory.” “Let us honour the water that sustains us. And let us carry that spirit with us throughout this Assembly and beyond,” Nepinak said to the throng of elders, knowledge keepers, water walkers, water protectors, youth, and community members gathered after the walk. At her press conference at the Rogers Centre, where the AFN AGA is being held this week, Woodhouse Nepinak noted that…
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