Chief Joe Alphonse

Canada’s Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and Coast Guard says she will be responding directly to Tsilhqot’in Nation leadership who have called for an immediate meeting on declining Fraser River chinook stocks.

Chiefs who gathered in New Westminster, B.C., to commemorate an Indigenous leader's wrongful trial and execution 154 years ago say they see signs of reconciliation from the federal government but their struggle for recognition continues in the courts.

The leader of Canada's first Indigenous group to win title to its territory says an updated agreement it's negotiating with the federal government is part of a new model of relations between Ottawa and First Nations.

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, Carolyn Bennett said yesterday in the House of Commons, that Trudeau's exoneration was a step in a longer process of reconciliation.