The Assembly of First Nations has sent four people across Canada this summer to help residential school survivors access the last part of their settlement money. But, the liaison responsible for the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Alberta says the process has flaws. 

AFN liaison: System for redeeming Personal Education Credits "flawed"

There’s a treasure hunt underway in the forests of the Deh Cho. Some are having luck, others … not so much. Randi Beers dropped by a mushroom camp and talked to people joining the morel mushroom harvest in the Northwest Territories.

Morel Harvest Sprouts Deh Cho, Northwest Territories

Sotheby’s Auction House estimates it to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but Tlingit Nation in southeastern Alaska considers it to be sacred.

The object in question is a ceremonial Tlingit hat, auctioned off by Sotheby’s in New York City for $365,000, including the bidder’s fee, on May 21.

Michael Hoyt, the great, great, great grandson of William Ukas, the carver who is believed to have crafted the hat, started an online fundraiser May 16 with a $100,000 goal in an attempt to repatriate the relic.

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