First Nations LEAD Program

First Nations Development Institute, located in Longmont, CO, is launching the fourth year of its Leadership and Entrepreneurial Apprenticeship Development (LEAD) program. The LEAD program’s overall goal is to develop a pool of qualified nonprofit leaders to meet the needs of the growing Native American nonprofit sector. This innovative program is an intensive one-year program [...]

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Remembrance of Canada using Inuit as “human flag poles”

What is called by some “one of the most shameful events in Canadian history” was in the news this past week. Apparently, in 1953, Canada relocated some 87 families, 250 Inuit people, to Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord into cruel conditions in the High Arctic in an attempt to establish Canadian sovereignty over the Arctic. [...]

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