Canada
Cathy Merrick, advocate for Canada’s Indigenous people, dies at 63
Ms. Merrick was the first woman to be elected grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, representing 63 First Nations.
Ms. Merrick died while doing what she had dedicated her life to: advocating for Indigenous people. She had just attended the trial of a corrections officer who had been charged in the death of an Indigenous inmate. The man had been acquitted, and Ms.... [5022 chars]