Memorandum concerning the people’s selection of new leadership: Ojibway Nation of Saugeen #258
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Community members selected new leaders during meeting on Feb. 3 Jorge Barrera · CBC News · Posted: Feb 07, 2019 12:39 PM ET | Last Updated: February 7 The lifetime chief of a First Nation in northern Ontario has gone to the Federal Court of Canada to try to stop the attempt to topple his decades-long rule. The Ojibway Nation of Saugeen, located about 400 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, filed for a judicial review with the Federal Court in Winnipeg on Feb. 1…
A First Nation’s ‘lifetime’ chief faces a revolution rising from his 242-member band By Jorge Barrera, CBC News February 2, 2019 Chief Edward Machimity said he was going to call the Ontario Provincial Police if the reporter didn’t leave the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen reserve within 30 minutes. Chief Machimity and his son, Marvin Machimity, had pulled up in a pickup truck outside Betty Necan’s home after getting a tip there was a CBC News reporter inside. “I am the…