Noel Starblanket still remembers the meeting in Ottawa in 1980 at the Skyline Hotel, which laid part of the groundwork for the creation of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).
At the time, the National Indian Brotherhood (NIB) was preparing to transform into the AFN,
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