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New Brunswick Assembly of First Nations
Learn more about NB-AFN, our mandate, and our work.
About Us
NBAFN is one of 10 regional organizations affiliated with the national Assembly of First Nations whose members include 633 First Nations across Canada.
The Regional Chief for New Brunswick sits on the AFN Executive Committee where her role is to ensure NBAFN members’ concerns are addressed.
The Regional Chief, Joanna Bernard, also holds specific portfolios that deal with National policy issues and concerns.
Meet the Regional Chief
Joanna Bernard of Madawaska First Nation was elected Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief for New Brunswick in 2021.
Latest
News
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The Summary Report of the second National Gathering on Unmarked Burials: Addressing Trauma in the Search and Recovery
April 25, 2023
A Declaration of
First Nations
We the Original Peoples of this land know the Creator put us here.
The Creator gave us laws that govern all our relationships to live in harmony with nature and mankind.
The Laws of the Creator defined our rights and responsibilities.
The Creator gave us our spiritual beliefs, our languages, our culture, and a place on Mother Earth which provided us with all our needs.
We have maintained our Freedom, our Languages, and our Traditions from time immemorial.
We continue to exercise the rights and fulfill the responsibilities and obligations given to us by the Creator for the land upon which we were placed.
The Creator has given us the right to govern ourselves and the right to self-determination.
The rights and responsibilities given to us by the Creator cannot be altered or taken away by any other Nation.
AFN-NB Annual Report 2023-2024
Explore the 2023-24 annual report published by the New Brunswick Assembly of First Nations,
February 24, 2025
AFN-NB Annual Report 2022-2023
Explore the 2022-23 annual report published by the New Brunswick Assembly of First Nations,
February 24, 2025
AFN-NB Annual Report 2021-2022
Explore the 2021-22 annual report published by the New Brunswick Assembly of First Nations,
February 24, 2025
Oh, Great Spirit,
whose voice I hear in the winds
and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me.
l am small and weak.
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes
ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand
the things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength, not to be superior to my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy – myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes,
so when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit will come to you
without shame.
Prayer by Chief John Yellow Lark
