By Shari Narine  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Newfoundland First Nations will soon have their own regional chief seat on the Assembly of First Nations executive committee. `We don’t have treaty rights in Newfoundland. All we have is the help of the Assembly of First Nations and the help of the Atlantic Policy Congress (of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat). If we don’t have this help, we have nothing working for us,” said Chief Misel Joe of Miawpukek Mi’kamawey Mawi’omi, who moved the charter amendment at the Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa on Dec. 6. “We’re working with a Liberal government that’s supportive but, because we don’t have treaty rights we have to deal with big companies that come into our territory in a way that make us all beggars. The only

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