[news] National Aboriginal Achievement Awards hiding corporate crimes

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IIYC Press Release

On Friday, January 27th, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation is hosting the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, on Coast Salish Territory. We fully support the acknowledgement of Aboriginal achievement. However, sponsorship of the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards by companies with track records of Human Rights’ violations and environmental devastation against Indigenous people and their land should not award these companies any honors.

Sponsors of this event include Calgary-based Encana, Shell Canada, and Weyerhaueser; corporations who are continuing to take resources and profit off of Indigenous territories globally, and who have refused to acknowledge Aboriginal Title and Rights in Canada.

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