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National Indigenous News - April 9 · National Indigenous Newscasts

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  SPEAKER_01: Here's your National Indigenous News on the Windspeaker Radio Network.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Brooklyn Britton.
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  SPEAKER_01: The remains of Leah Keeper, a Manitoba First Nation woman who went missing in Winnipeg in 2023 have been found.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keeper, a 33 mother of two, was last seen in Winnipeg's North End on July 25th, 2023.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was reported missing four months later.
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  SPEAKER_01: The family contacted the Bear Clan and extensive searching began.
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  SPEAKER_01: According to the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, Keeper had been training to become a nursing assistant and was deeply loved by her family and the whole community.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: But Keeper began to struggle after she met up with the wrong people later on, which caused her to go into addictions, AMC said.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fontaine, chief of SAG King First Nation, called for more resources from supports to efforts in searching for missing indigenous women.
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  SPEAKER_01: A stand with First Nations rally happened yesterday in Edmonton, protecting treaties and the threat to them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joanna Luna has more.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: There was a peaceful rally here in Edmonton at Churchill Square.
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  SPEAKER_02: Stand with First Nations rally in defense of the treaties.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we caught up with Chief Alan Adams from Athabasca, Chippewan First Nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're here to let uh everyone know that uh how important it is that uh we stay within Canada because our rights are being eroded with this Alberta separation movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh our hunting boundaries reside in uh two other provinces outside if Alberta separates.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what's gonna happen with us when this comes down if it does play out the way they want to do?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's a lot of unanswered questions here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only people that should be separating and have the right to separation are the sovereign people, which is us, because uh if we feel that we're being treated unfairly, which we are, but we're still defined to make things better.
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  SPEAKER_04: This is everything.
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  SPEAKER_04: This is everything to us, you know.
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  SPEAKER_04: Um Surge Lake Greenation that's taking a stand to defend our treaty and to see all the people come together and uh and unity when uh we're facing with uh the separatist issue and all the legislation that have been passed over the last few years, you know.
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  SPEAKER_04: Um it's a beautiful sight.
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  SPEAKER_03: It means uh so much for us to be here, you know, supporting our people, having uh understanding uh that our people need to learn, that not just our people need to learn, but each and every person here in Alberta, and that's what we're here to do is uh you know reinforce our treaties and bring awareness to our treaties and that they can't be violated.
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  SPEAKER_02: In Edmondson, I'm Joanna Luna.
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  SPEAKER_01: Advocates are calling for long-term, stable federal funding to safeguard indigenous women and girls, and warning the federal government's major projects push could place them at higher risk.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Organizations like the National Family and Survivors Circle said groups like theirs don't know if they'll receive continued funding from Ottawa, and the uncertainty undermines their efforts to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
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  SPEAKER_01: A 2019 inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls concluded indigenous women are twelve times more likely to go missing or be murdered than their non-Indigenous counterparts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Family members told the inquiry how intergenerational trauma and poverty combound the threats facing indigenous women and girls, while knowledge keepers described how women through colonization have been displaced from their traditional roles.
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  SPEAKER_01: Plans for bulldozers to carve a new recreation trail through northwestern Alberta are on hold.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mackenzie County wants to turn two defunct industrial winter roads into a recreation trail in the areas around Bishto Lake and Thurston Lake, but the Denet First Nation says the provincial government did not properly consult its people before transferring ownership to Mackenzie County.
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  SPEAKER_01: In a statement issued Thursday, Mackenzie County Reeve Johnson Nelson said his municipality had engaged in consultation with the Denetau First Nation and other indigenous communities between 2023 and 2025.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Denet First Nation hopes the court will eventually reverse the transfer and stop any future transfers that do not involve their consultation.
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  SPEAKER_01: The area is considered culturally and spiritually important among members of this First Nation.
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  SPEAKER_01: The land is used for hunting, fishing, and harvesting, and some members and their ancestors were born in the area.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is also believed there are artifacts in the area dating from before contact with settlers as well as gravesites.
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  SPEAKER_01: In a statement, the Alberta government cannot comment on the First Nation's claims or the ongoing legal dispute while the matter is before the courts.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is your latest national indigenous news.