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From Ottawa to Yellowknife, today’s Brief features APTN News' extensive coverage of National Indigenous Peoples Day events.

Our lead story: First Nations children and their families shortchanged by a woefully-underfunded on-reserve child welfare system are one step closer to receiving compensation after a federal court approves the distribution plan for a $23 billion final settlement agreement.

Our lead story: a growing number of families at Enoch Cree Nation—located just outside of Edmonton—say lands currently occupied by Enoch’s pow wow grounds were wrongfully taken from their predecessors.

Our lead story: former Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald launches a $5 million lawsuit against the organization, alleging her June 2023 ouster from the top job constituted defamation, breach of contract and negligence.

Our lead story: a Northwest Territories wildfire over 1,300 hectares in size as of Monday night rages less than a kilometre away from the Dene/Métis community of Fort Good Hope, forcing some 300 residents to flee their homes as crews continue to make a fire perimeter.
 

Our lead story: in a landmark Yukon court case, Jared Skookum pleads guilty to manslaughter in the overdose death of Liard First Nation member Stephanie Pye, to whom he’d sold the opioids fentanyl and etizolam.