Mushuau Innu sign expanded bylaws to combat drug crisis - The Turtle Island News

Mushuau Innu sign expanded bylaws to combat drug crisis - The Turtle Island News

By Heidi Atter, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent The Mushuau Innu Band Council has signed new an expanded trespassing bylaw and expanded enforcement bylaw, giving expanded powers to community safety officers to search personal effects at the airport, search band-owned homes, and for the band council in Natuashish to ban more people from the community with the goal of disrupting the flow of drugs into the remote First Nation …

Elected leaders and Innu Councillors from the Côte-Nord will be in New York next week to call for the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DNUDPA) in Quebec. "This will be the largest participation of the First Nations of Quebec elected and elected for more than 20 years at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), held at UN Headquarters in New York," said the Assembly of …

Mushuau Innu sign expanded bylaws to combat drug crisis – The Independent

The band council has followed several suggestions women in Natuashish proposed in February