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JUNE 26, 2001

BRITISH COLUMBIA:
The BC Children's Hospital has conducted a study linking high rates of respiratory infections in Inuit infants to exposure to cigarette smoke. Inuit infants have the highest mortality rate in the nation.
Get the Story: Smoking blamed for breathing problems among Inuit kids (CBC 6/26) | High lung ailment rates found in Inuit infants (CP 6/26)

MANITOBA:
First Nations Chiefs are planning a court challenge to the federal Indian Act which prohibits grandchildren of Aboriginal women who marry out of bands from gaining status.
Get the Story: Chiefs planning Indian Act court challenge (CBC 6/25)

The Pikangikum First Nation is challenging a Indian Affairs' attempt to take over the band government. Minister Robert Nault cited the band's high suicide rate as one of the reasons for the takeover.
Get the Story: Suicides linked to squalor (CP 6/26)

YUKON:
Aboriginal leaders from Russia are in Dawson City to gain support for using First Nation land claims treaties as the basis for their own agreements.
Get the Story: Russian aboriginals want Yukon treaties (CBC 6/26)

LABRADOR:
Premier Roger Grimes and Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault on Monday signed the Labrodor Inuit land claim agreement in principle. Final negotiations must take place and self-government is about two years away for the Inuit.
Get the Story: Labrador Inuit step closer to self-government (CBC 6/25) | Land Claim process in final phase (CBC 6/26)