December 18, 2014
Quesnel is a policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
As the new leader of the Assembly of First Nations, Perry Bellegarde, recently chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and former chief of the Little Black Bear First Nation, will have three-and-a-half years to transform indigenous politics for the better.
At no other point in its history has the AFN’s legitimacy been as challenged as it is now.
This past July, First Nations chiefs held two very different meetings. While the AFN held its annual general meeting in Whitehorse, indigenous leaders met in Saskatchewan to debate whether to create an alternative to the AFN.
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