Discarding Indian Act card was act of ‘emancipation,’ Manitoba chief tells treaty gathering
ONION LAKE, SASK., AND OTTAWA — The Canadian Press
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One of Canada’s most outspoken aboriginal critics says he threw away his Indian Act card as an act of emancipation and is encouraging others to reject the “racist policies” of the past in their own way.
Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, said he threw the card in the garbage at a National Treaty Gathering of rival chiefs in Onion Lake, Sask. The Assembly of First Nations is holding its annual meeting this week in Whitehorse, Yukon, highlighting the growing schism within the country’s aboriginal leadership.
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