Today in History

Sept 7 In 1973, the Northwest Territories Supreme Court allowed the Indian Brotherhood of the N.W.T. to file a land claim for one-third of the territory. In 2018, a Saskatchewan judge ordered a group of protesters to remove their teepees from the lawn outside the provincial legislature in Regina. Protesters set up the teepees at the end of February to bring attention to racial injustice and the disproportionate number of First Nations children in care. Sept 8 In 2010, Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan issued the official public apology to the town of Resolute for those who were uprooted from their homeland in northern Quebec and moved to desolate spots in the High Arctic during the 1950s. His remarks were delivered at the unveiling of a stone carving near the…

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