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Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority and Nishnawbe Aski Nation Demand Accountability in the Death of Miranda Mamakwa

Sioux Lookout / Thunder Bay, ON — Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority (SLFNHA) and Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) are demanding immediate, public accountability following the death of Miranda Mamakwa, a mother of three young children from Fort Severn First Nation, after Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) program repeatedly failed to arrange the medical travel she…

Violence Across NAN Territory Demands Urgent Response from Canada and Ontario

THUNDER BAY, ON: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler is calling on the governments of Canada and Ontario to treat the escalating drug-related violence across NAN territory as the public safety emergency that it is. Today’s virtual press conference held by Ginoogaming First Nation Chief Sheri Taylor underscores exactly why – communities are…

Ginoogaming First Nation Forced to Fund Its Own Safety as OPP Fails to Act

Ginoogaming First Nation, ON – Ginoogaming First Nation Chief Sheri Taylor and Council are demanding that the Ontario Provincial Police take full responsibility for the ongoing drug and crime crisis in their community. Today, Chief Taylor and Council are meeting with the OPP to confront the force’s failure to provide adequate enforcement and funding support.…

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Nishnawbe Aski Nation is a political territorial organization representing 49 First Nation communities within northern Ontario. It represents the legitimate, socioeconomic, and political aspirations of its First Nation members of Northern Ontario to all levels of government in order to allow local self-determination while establishing spiritual, cultural, social, and economic independence.