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Co-op backs tribe’s environmental lawsuit – The Herald

By RAVEN | July 20, 2009

The Herald – Glasgow,Scotland,UK The Co-operative Financial Services is backing the Beaver Lake Cree nation,…

U.K. fund Cree nation to fight oilsands – Edmonton Journal

By RAVEN | July 8, 2009

More follow up from the Beaver Lake Cree Nation pow-wow.  The Co-operative Group in Manchester…

Prosperity panel wants more information from Taseko – Williams Lake Tribune – June 25, 2009

By RAVEN | July 6, 2009

Good news for those of us concerned with the proposed mine! On Wednesday, June 24th…

UK Bank backs oilsands lawsuit – Edmonton Journal, July 5, 2009

By RAVEN | July 6, 2009

Beaver Lake Cree claim development tramples on traditional hunting and fishing grounds. please click here…

Stop the Oilsands Boycott Launched by Ethical Consumer

By RAVEN | June 25, 2009

Noting that the Canadian oil sands “threaten to unleash far more carbon dioxide into the…

Co-operative Bank donates funds to Beaver Lake Cree legal action

By RAVEN | June 17, 2009

As part of the The Co-operative Bank’s “Toxic Fuel” campaign, which supports the Beaver Lake…

Podcast from CFUV about proposed mining practices and impact on Teztan Biny (Fish Lake)

By RAVEN | June 12, 2009

Amy Crook of the Centre of Science in Public Participation is interviewed by Janelle Bandcroft…

Cree lawsuit would drain energy royalties – Edmonton Journal

By RAVEN | June 12, 2009

“Native band says 15,000 oilsands developments planned on ancestral land” Read the full article by Elise…

Beaver Lake Cree Nation will continue to defend its treaty rights to stop the tar sands

By RAVEN | June 11, 2009

The Beaver Lake Cree Nation issued a press release in response to Alberta and Canada’s…

Scraping Bottom – National Geographic

By RAVEN | March 2, 2009

By Robert Kunzig – Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the…

West Moberly First Nation 

By RAVEN | September 7, 2000

RAVEN is supporting West Moberly First Nation (Peace region, British Columbia), who are intervening in the Attorney General of Ontario, et al. v. Mike Restoule case pushing for augmentation of treaty annuities. 

Reckoning with grief, and responsibility

By Andrea Palframan | July 6, 2000

Lots of people want to have a bigger conversation about the horrors being unearthed at residential school sites. It’s also clear that – though we have a mandate from Indigenous Nations to fundraise on their behalf – we have to put down our tools and allow space for mourning.