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Candidate seeks foreign investment to liberate First Nations.

Publication: Windspeaker
Publication Date: 01-AUG-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Candidate seeks foreign investment to liberate First Nations.(AFN election)

Article Excerpt
If you go to the Web site of ChiefTerrance Nelson, candidate for national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, you might think he may need some classes in geography.

On the home page is a map of what would be Canada, except where the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut would be, there is an American flag.

Nope, Nelson doesn't need more schooling. He's already got two degrees. What he's hoping for is that the chiefs in assembly buy into his economic plan to seek out the investment dollars of the United States, China, Korea and Japan so that those resources in the north can be developed by the Indigenous people there.

"The resources belong to the Indigenous people. The problem is the immigrants have taken everything."

He said he's looking to develop a $ 100-billion foreign investment fund and one of his top priorities if he...

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