Tina Pelletier's News (17)

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WINNIPEG, MB - When she was 14-years-old, Shirley Delorme Russell and her five siblings were placed in foster care. She would change homes three times in the next several years.  Although she was a bright student, Shirley stopped going to…

Native teen's posthumous plea for education finds traction in Parliament

Native teen’s posthumous plea for education finds traction in Parliament

Shannen Koostachin had a dream: to go to school in a proper building, not a decrepit portable on contaminated soil.

The Grade 8 student from Attawapiskat in Northern Ontario journeyed to Ottawa to make…

Tribunal allowing Canada to duck duties to First Nation kids: advocates

OTTAWA — A decision to dismiss a landmark attempt to hold the federal government legally responsible for the plight of aboriginal children living on reserve allows Canada to duck its responsibility to a generation of youth, human rights advocates told…

First Nations youth tell the UN "It is time for Canada to keep its promises to First Nations children"

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Community Resource Guide: “What can I do to help the Families of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal women and girls?”

January 31, 2012 (Ottawa, ON) - The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is pleased to announce the release of a new product entitled, “Community Resource Guide: What can I do to help the Families of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal women and girls?” The Community Resource Guide (CRG) is a plain-language…

Media Advisory - Canada Must Give First Nations Children Equal Rights, Indigenous Youth Tell United Nations Committee on Rights of the Child

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/569496#ixzz1l9FWFI8V

Photos: Urban art project in Colombia aims to stop child  exploitation

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First Nations file a historic human rights case against the federal government for under-funding child welfare services on reserves.

8th Fire: Q & A with Cindy Blackstone

Carleton youth raise funds for First Nation

CBC: Townhall Meeting Podcast

Aboriginal fathers have two traditional roles - to provide and to protect. But when Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in residential schools, their fathers lost their ability to protect their children. And when many of those children got out of the schools, broken from years of abuse, they had lost their capacity to provide and…

Native Daughters

Native Daughters is a two-year project from the first meeting to the finished magazine and website, involving five University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors and about 30 students. The idea stemmed from several brainstorming sessions among professors looking for a new way to tell an older story about indigenous America.

The magazine and website products were broken down into three semesters of…

Aboriginal Children's Village takes shape in Vancouver

UN Special Rapporteur on Attawapiskat Dec 20

UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples comments on the situation in Attawapiskat as an example of inequitable services on reserves. Statement also mentions human rights complaint for inequitable services filed by First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada in 2007 concerning…

http://www.fncfcs.com/shannensdream/our-dreams-matter-too

http://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/News/News/child-poverty-news/Pages/Attawapiskat-Children-Squalor-054.aspx

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1098004

http://www.straight.com/article-562426/vancouver/united-nations-committee-launch-inquiry-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women