By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWOnewswatch.com FORT FRANCES — Fort Frances’s mayor says the town is creating a policy to put in writing, and help guide, the town’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation. The municipality’s Indigenous relations advisory committee has released an initial version and is taking input, Mayor Andrew Hallikas said. “In particular, we want input from the First Nations that surround us and, even to be more specific, we want input from the Agency One bands,” he said, referring to four First Nations very close to Fort Frances — Couchiching, Mitaanjigamiing, Naicatchewenin and Nigigoonsiminikaaning. “We’ve reached out to them and the four chiefs have graciously committed to meeting with us to give us input on this policy because we want to get it right.” That meeting…
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