Sask: Grand Chief Derek Nepinak

Grand Chief Derek Nepinak: Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, said he threw the card in the garbage at a National Treaty Gathering of rival chiefs in Onion Lake, Sask. The Assembly of First Nations is holding its annual meeting this week in Whitehorse, Yukon, highlighting the growing schism within the country's aboriginal leadership. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "We've been subjecting ourselves to the prescriptive processes and the prescriptive policies of the Indian Act for far too long," he said. ONION LAKE, Sask. - One of Canada's most outspoken aboriginal critics says he threw away his Indian Act card as an act of emancipation and is encouraging others to reject the "racist policies" of the past in their own way. Both the Indian Act and the Assembly of First Nations are "relics" of the past, Nepinak said in an interview Wednesday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.