Saskatchewan’s Anishinabe Nation Treaty Authority meets in Nipissing for Governance – Anishinabek News
September 16, 2024
NIPISSING FIRST NATION– Self-governance progress was the topic of discussion at a meeting between visiting members of the Anishinabe Nation Treaty Authority (ANTA) from Kamsack, Saskatchewan, and Anishinabek Nation governance officials at the Anishinabek Nation’s Elders Hall on August 21, 2024.
ANTA Director Angela Roque, of Treaty 4’s seven First Nations, who had met with the Anishinabek Nation’s governance delegation last February in Toronto, said her group’s main takeaway from the gathering was the ongoing need to inform and encourage Anishinabe communities to get out from under the Indian Act.
“To focus on educating, empowering and inspiring our Anishinabe Nations to govern themselves, always with education, parenting, health—that’s what I got out of it, just to get away from the oppressed governance that we’ve been living under for 150 years.”
