By Turtle Island News Staff Indigenous leaders and groups say the rights of First Nations in Canada are under attack by pretendians and some M\u00e9tis federations. \u201cThere 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,\u201d Scott McLeod Chief of Nippising First Nation said. \u201cBut today it\u2019s 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\u2019s another fight\u2026 We\u2019ve been struggling for 400 years to maintain our identity, this is just another branch of this battle.\u201d Indigenous leaders from all over Canada attended the first Indigenous Identify Fraud Summit… <\/p>\n
By Turtle Island News Staff Indigenous leaders and groups say the rights of First Nations in Canada are under attack by pretendians and some M\u00e9tis federations. \u201cThere 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,\u201d Scott McLeod Chief of Nippising First Nation said. \u201cBut today it\u2019s 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\u2019s another fight\u2026 We\u2019ve been struggling for 400 years to maintain our identity, this is just another branch of this battle.\u201d Indigenous leaders from all over Canada attended the first Indigenous Identify Fraud Summit... <\/p>\n