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National Indigenous News June 5 · National Indigenous Newscasts

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  SPEAKER_00: This is a look at your National Indigenous News.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Daryl Stranger.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the second time in two years, the leader of the Assembly of First Nations met with King Charles Tuesday to discuss the Crown's nation-to-nation treaty relationship with Indigenous peoples in Canada.
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  SPEAKER_00: The meeting at Buckingham Palace in London was scheduled for 40 minutes, but AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepanak said Charles added an additional hour to the schedule to accommodate all the visitors.
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  SPEAKER_00: The discussions centered around First Nations sovereignty, including in resource development, as the federal government forges ahead with its major projects office amid ongoing U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: tariff threats.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nepanack added the AFN supports economic development and economic prosperity, but not at the expense of the environment or First Nations' inherent and sovereign rights.
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  SPEAKER_00: Woodhouse Nepanak said the delegation also spoke to Charles about the ongoing work to repatriate First Nations artifacts from international museums and institutions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Former Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner and former Treaty Six Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild said he would be extending an invitation to the 150th anniversary celebrations of Treaty Six this summer in Muscocheese, Alberta.
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  SPEAKER_00: A new initiative is getting the youth of the Soutina Nation in Southern Alberta out of the house and onto the baseball diamond.
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  SPEAKER_00: Benjamin Giroud is field side with this story.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Soutina Youth Baseball Clinic met at the seven Chief Sportsplex on the 20th and 27th of May, where kids were given baseball equipment and taught the baseball basics.
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  SPEAKER_01: The baseball clinic offers transportation assistance and provided all the equipment, meaning all the youth had to do to participate was show up.
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  SPEAKER_01: The original poster for the baseball clinic only had two dates listed, but with more than 35 kids attending, talks are taking place to install a multi-week baseball camp in an effort to bring baseball on par with the other main sports on Sutendanation.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got to speak with Tyler Cutknife, youth advisory coordinator, about the baseball clinic and asked about the long-term plans.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it was just initially a two-day camp, which would be each Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_02: That being said, we've had enough interest to where parents are asking for more and more.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we're probably going to turn into an eight-week.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Sutendon Nation, I'm Benjamin Giroud.
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  SPEAKER_00: As the Dyovic Diamond Mine closes in the Northwest Territories, Indigenous parties are split over whether the Environmental Monitoring Advisory Board should continue monitoring the mine's environmental impact into the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Cliche government, which was one of the indigenous parties that helped create the board, supports its wind up by March 2027.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the board's chair from Lutzelkate Dene First Nation said both the board and his community want long-term monitoring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yellowknives Dene First Nation also supports a transitional wind down of the Environmental Monitoring Advisory Board instead of an immediate closure.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Environmental Monitoring Advisory Board is a watchdog to make sure the animals, fish, land, and air are not damaged.
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  SPEAKER_00: The board passed on Elder's knowledge and stories to the company to make sure the mine is shut down properly, and Northwest Territories Environment Minister Jay McDonald is expected to make a decision on its future by the end of June.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a look at your National Indigenous News.