Month: February 2025

(February 28, 2025 – Montreal, Quebec) – National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak is encouraging Canadians to keep their tourism dollars in Canada by choosing First Nations destinations instead of travelling to the United States. Speaking at the International Indigenous Tourism Conference on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, […]

(February 26, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak released the following statement today after Chiefs of Ontario and Nishnawbe Aski Nation ratified a Final Agreement on Long-Term Reform of First Nations Child and Family Services Program in Ontario at a separate Special Chiefs Assembly this week. “Ontario’s Final First Nations Child […]

(February 26, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak issued the following statement on the election of the new Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) Regional Chief Francis Verreault Paul and the departure of outgoing AFNQL Regional Chief Ghislain Picard: “On behalf of the AFN Executive Committee, we congratulate Francis […]

(February 26, 2025 – Montreal, QC) – National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak will be on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg peoples in Montreal, Quebec (QC), to deliver a keynote address at the 2025 International Indigenous Tourism Conference (IITC). National Chief Woodhouse Nepinak will be […]

(February 20, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak and British Columbia (BC) Regional Chief Terry Teegee issued the following statement in response to the BC Supreme Court’s ruling in the Wet’suwet’en land defenders case, in which Justice Michael Tammen found that Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) members used “grossly […]

(February 19, 2025 – Toronto, Ontario) National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak and Regional Chief Terry Teegee issued the following statement welcoming the Chiix̲uujin/Chaaw K̲aawgaa “Big Tide (Low Water)” Agreement between the Haida Nation and the Government of Canada. This agreement affirms Haida title to Haida Gwaii, including the islands’ lands, beds of freshwater bodies, and […]

Summary:  On January 17, 2025, the AFN released its K-12 First Nations Education Transformation Costing Analysis Report. The K-12 First Nations Education Transformation Costing Analysis Report highlights the limited progress in finalizing REAs and the need for greater collaboration between federal departments, particularly Central Agencies, to adequately support First Nations in improving their education systems. […]

(February 14, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa, Ontario) — Today, National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak joins families, Survivors, and communities across the country in recognizing the 34th Annual Women’s Memorial March, which honours the lives of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals who have been murdered or are missing. “The Women’s Memorial March is […]

(February 12, 2025 – Washington, D.C., USA) – During an address to the Winter Assembly of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in Washington D.C., National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak invited First Nations leaders on both sides of the Canada-United States border to jointly advance collective rights and economic interests in response to the […]

(February 11, 2025 – Washington, D.C., USA) – National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak will be in Washington DC this week to attend the 2025 Executive Council Winter Session of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) from February 11-13, 2025, in Washington, D.C., on the ancestral lands of the Anacostan, Nacotchtank, Piscataway, and Pamunkey Peoples. […]