National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Cindy Woodhouse, is marking a special anniversary today. It was on this date two-years-ago that she was elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. A proud member of the Pinaymootang First Nation in Manitoba, she is respected from coast-to-coast-to-coast in Canada.
"Canada, you cannot forget First Nations," she said upon her election to this crucial national post “You take our money from our land, you have to make sure that you work with us to get that out the door to our communities."
You can read CBC’s on-line coverage of her election at this link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/afn-national-chief-winner-1.7051907
National Chief Woodhouse continues in her high office today.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.