Mandy Gull-Masty becomes first Indigenous person to head Indigenous Services

Federal government appoints first Indigenous Minister of Indigenous Services Canada

Mandy Gull-Masty inherits a series of uncompleted tasks in her new portfolio, including reforming the child welfare system and ensuring Indigenous communities have access to clean drinking water

Mandy Gull-Masty becomes 1st Indigenous head of Indigenous Services Canada

An MP from Northern Quebec is the first Indigenous person to hold the portfolio responsible for providing services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. Mandy Gull-Masty is one of three Indigenous MPs sworn into cabinet Tuesday.

For the first time, an Aboriginal person was selected to lead the federal department responsible for services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.

Mandy Gull-Masty becomes first Indigenous person to head Indigenous Services

For the first time ever, an Indigenous person has been chosen to lead the federal department responsible for providing services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.

Mark Carney's new office has two other Aboriginal ministers: Rebecca Chartrand and Buckley Belanger.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Among the nearly 50,000 participants in this year’s global climate summit, in Belém do Pará, a city in the Amazon North of Brazil, in November, 3,000 to 4000 will be indigenous people seeking to take part in negotiations in more than 190 countries. “We want indigenous peoples to be [...] This article Indigenous people want to be central actors in the climate COP in Brazil was originally published in IPS News Agency