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As drumbeats punctuated the air, members of Alberta’s Treaty 6, 7 and 8 tribal councils gathered in Edmonton’s Sir Winston Churchill Square on September 24 to protest the lack of federal funding for Canada’s First Nations schools. Protesters, carrying placards calling for improved funding, marched to Canada Place, where the regional office of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada is located, and listened to Aboriginal elders, treaty grand chiefs and Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.—Photo by
Raymond Gariépy
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