‘We had democracy long before the Indian Act, long before the Constitution or the arrival of the European,’ says Coon Come [Native Issues Policy Briefing]

The Assembly of First Nations' national chief says the federal Minister of Indian Affairs' plan to overhaul the 126-year-old Indian Act is doomed to fail because the massive Department of Indian Affairs is proceeding without the full cooperation and participation of aboriginal people.

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