The ousted national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is looking for support – especially from Indigenous women – to be reinstated.
RoseAnne Archibald of Taykwa Tagamou First Nation, near Cochrane, is calling on all First Nations People to call or email their chiefs and councils and do two things.
“One that they reinstate me as national chief,” she states,”and two, that they make sure the forensic audit goes ahead.”
That audit is one that Archibald’s been demanding since becoming chief almost two years ago, to investigate what she calls corruption in the AFN.
In a video posted to Facebook, Archibald says she doesn’t want to be reinstated because of her ego, but because she has a sacred responsibility to fulfil.
She accuses the chiefs of “one of the most violent acts against an indigenous-First Nations woman ever” saying it was done on a national and world stage.
She says the assembly needs a path to healing the situation.
“And you don’t heal the situation by attacking and being laterally violent with the first woman national chief in the history of the Assembly of First Nations.”
