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Brokenhead Ojibway Nation is governed by the Act Electoral System of government. The current leadership is Chief Gordon Bluesky and Councillors Allen (Sam) Hocaluk, Christopher Kent, Wendell Sinclair Jr (Ogimma)and Remi Olson. The Chief's and Councillors' two-year elected term began on April 18, 2022, and will conclude in April 2024.
The Loon Clan was said to have been rising in prominence in the mid-18th-century due to the efforts of Andaigweos (Ojibwe: Aandegwiiyaas, "Crow's Meat"), Kechewaishke's grandfather. Andaigweos was born in the Shagawamikong region, son to a man described as "a Canadian Indian" (i.e. a Saulteaux from Sault Ste. Marie , a key Ojibwa village at ...
Treaty 1 also remains controversial due to the differing understandings of kinship, the role of the "Great Mother" and her promises. As with Governor Archibald's opening statement on the "Great Mother", government officials utilized this term throughout the negotiations of the treaty simply as a way to connect with the Anishinaabe kinship ...
There, Wabanquot was considered by many to be the principal chief of the removed Mississippi bands of Chippewa. He was a signatory to the Treaty of Washington (1867) (16 Stat. 719 ), in which on June 14, 1868, he led his band to the White Earth Indian Reservation , where he lived until his death 30 years later.
A Seattle police officer has been fired over the “dehumanizing laughter” and “cruel comments” he made after the 2023 death of an Indian graduate student who was struck by a police vehicle ...
A former Athens-Clarke police officer has filed a federal lawsuit against the Athens-County government on the grounds he was discriminated against when he was fired in 2021 when he was alleged to ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for the immediate dismissal of 14 prison employees after the death of Robert Brooks earlier this month. ... who died Dec. 10 at a local hospital after a physical ...
Born: Tommy Prince, Indigenous Canadian soldier, member of the First Special Service Force, recipient of the Military Medal and Silver Star, making him the most decorated soldier of Indigenous background in World War II; as Thomas George Prince, in Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Manitoba, Canada (d. 1977) [citation needed]