Chiefs’ resistance to change stalls new path for AFN
Chiefs’ resistance to change stalls new path for AFN

 By Shari Narine  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter National Chief RoseAnne Archibald has given chiefs another few months to get on board with the next steps for her proposed Healing Path Forward Accord. The accord was adopted at last July’s Assembly of First Nations (AFN) annual general assembly in a resolution entitled “A renewed framework providing strategic direction and action toward evolutionary and positive change.”   This spring’s assembly, held April 4 to April 6, was to give the go-ahead to establish a chiefs’ committee on nation-building.   However, no resolution was put forward for the committee’s establishment because of chiefs’ “resistance to change”, said Archibald in an address April 6, the final day of the special assembly held in Ottawa.   “Even positive change, even positive transformational change, will be met

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