By Turtle Island News Staff Indigenous leaders and groups say the rights of First Nations in Canada are under attack by pretendians and some Métis federations. “There were times we could go to jail for having ceremony, for speaking our language, for doing all the things we knew to be our identity,” Scott McLeod Chief of Nippising First Nation said. “But today it’s a different crisis. We are struggling with people who are trying to be us, who are trying to make claims for their benefit and they are occupying the spaces we should be occupying. It’s another fight… We’ve been struggling for 400 years to maintain our identity, this is just another branch of this battle.” Indigenous leaders from all over Canada attended the first Indigenous Identify Fraud Summit…
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