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Article: Canadian people ally in implementing report (Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples).
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- April 1, 1997
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Windspeaker Correspondent
OTTAWA
First Nations chiefs might be overwhelmed by the recommendations offered in the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples' recently released report, but many leaders agree it's time they start acting like sovereign nations if they want the federal government to adopt some of the report's 440 recommendations.
"The RCAP report is a tool," said Chief Joe Norton of the Kahnawake Mohawk Nation. He was attending a three-day meeting hosted by the Assembly of First Nations at the end of February.
"Seventy-five per cent of it is meant to send a message to Canada from Native people. The other 25 per cent is for us ...