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	Matthew Coon Come - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Coon Come (born near Mistassini, Quebec, in 1956) is a Canadian politician and activist of Cree descent.
		Coon Come was first educated in a residential school.
		Coon Come was first elected as grand chief and chairman of Quebec's Grand Council of the Crees in 1987.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Coon_Come (160 words)

	Matthew Coon Come - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Matthew is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Grand Council of the Crees and the Council of the Cree Regional Authority.
		Matthew was born in a hut on his parent's trap line near the community of Mistissini, and attended residential school in the south.
		Matthew then returned to his people in the North to continue his education, learning his people's extraordinary expertise in living off the land from his father and grandfather.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /ch/dec/mccome_e.html (413 words)

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - FOCUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Incumbent Matthew Coon Come was nowhere to be seen as Fontaine was announced the victor, having been dropped from the leadership race after the first ballot when he received just 18.5 per cent of the vote, compared to Fontaine's 51.5 per cent and Jamieson's 29.5 per cent.
		Coon Come, who built a reputation as confrontational, compared the assembly's fight for native rights to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of apartheid in South Africa and the defeat of Communism in Poland.
		Coon Come derailed Fontaine in 2000 when the latter was seen as being too close to the Liberals to fight for native causes.
	www.cric.ca /en_html/focus/focus_archives/focus_v1n29_election_apn.html (1957 words)

	Canada's top Indian chief a controversial character / Secession threat unnerves Quebec separatists
		Coon Come, 45, a Cree Indian born on a dog sled bearing his mother to a tent on his father's trap line, was elected to a three-year term as leader of the Assembly of First Nations, Canada's indigenous parliament, by the chiefs of 633 Indian tribes, or "bands" as they are known here.
		Coon means "snow" in his language, and Come was attached arbitrarily and inexplicably by a non-Indian census taker.
		Coon Come said that his priority as national chief of Canada's indigenous people was to get the government to honor 200 years of treaty commitments, giving Indians more land and autonomy.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/11/04/MN161654.DTL&type=printable (1052 words)

	Coon Come's mother healed, evangelist claims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		WHILE MATTHEW Coon Come was campaigning for re-election as Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations -- a campaign he lost on the first ballot July 16 -- a B.C.-based evangelist says the Native leader's mother was healed at one of his rallies.
		Coon Come, said Lindstrom, "is a very intelligent Native leader with a deep commitment to the things of God.
		Coon Come's mother, he said, "was in the prayer line -- suffering with arthritis throughout her body, and a shoulder that did not work.
	canadianchristianity.com /cgi-bin/na.cgi?nationalupdates/030716cooncome (769 words)

	Burnt Church News-09/22/00- National Post
		Coon Come is the leader of the Assembly of First Nations, the national lobby group for aboriginals.
		Coon Come campaigned against him, arguing he was an autocrat and out of touch with the grassroots.
		Coon Come's election, and the re-emergence of Mr.
	www.rism.org /isg/dlp/bc/news/bc_np_20000922_1.htm (404 words)

	Edited Committee Evidence * AANR * Number 042 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This bill is coming to us after first reading, and the evidence you have produced for us has convinced me of the valuable work that needs to be done at committee more than any time before because of the fact that we will receive it after first reading.
		Matthew, you were saying that it would be wise to meet with the minister before he announced this program or the changes to it.
		Chief Matthew Coon Come: We are very concerned about the legal implications it might have on the liability of the band and its members, versus the chief and council as an executive body.
	www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/37/1/AANR/Meetings/Evidence/AANREV42-E.HTM (12432 words)

	Comment: A turn in the road for the Coon Comes
		MATTHEW Coon Come handily defeated Phil Fontaine three years ago, when he ran to replace him as Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).
		Chief Coon Come ran third in a field of three, as Chief Fontaine was handily returned to the Canada's aboriginal "premiership".
		Now it was already well-known throughout the evangelical community in the capital, that the Coon Comes had been members of Woodvale Church, a large west side Pentecostal congregation, before they had moved to the Montreal areas so he could head up the Cree nation in Quebec.
	www.canadianchristianity.com /cgi-bin/na.cgi?nationalupdates/030723comment (684 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Coon Come has gone from being a relatively obscure aboriginal leader to a hero among many in the partition movement, for his clear and unequivocal stance against the sovereigntist government of Lucien Bouchard.
		Coon Come, during the last referendum, you and the Crees stood alone.
		Although much of Coon Come's speech was punctuated with strong applause from the crowd, he made it clear that he was fighting not for Canada, as many partitionist seem to believe, but for Cree sovereignty.
	www.mun.ca /muse/archive/Volume47/Issue17/nstory10.html (597 words)

	NOW: Moment of truth, Jul 10 - 16, 2003
		Matthew coon come was the golden boy from James Bay when he was swept into office as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations in 2000.
		For Coon Come, it's all a far cry from the day he sailed into office with a promise to achieve the same success at the AFN as he had in northern Quebec, where he led Crees in their campaign against the Great Whale hydroelectric project in the early 1990s.
		Coon Come had bold ideas for reforming the AFN and revitalizing native politics, specifically a proposal to introduce a one-native, one-vote system of decision-making at the AFN.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2003-07-10/news_feature.php (944 words)

	News@UofT -- Matthew Coon Come to be awarded honorary degree -- June 11, 2001
		Coon Come was directly involved in the Grand Council's successful effort to gain consultative status at the United Nations and supported using its international status to bring issues vital to all of the world's indigenous peoples before the international community.
		Coon Come has also been an unambiguous defender of the environment - in 1994 he received the Goldman prize, the Nobel of environmental awards, for his leadership in creating a strong international coalition of environmental, human rights and tribal communities to halt a massive hydro-electric project on his people's land.
		Coon Come will address students graduating with bachelor's degrees in commerce and arts and science from the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
	www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca /bin2/010611b.asp (354 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Birnbaum said Coon Come, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, approached CJC in Ottawa earlier in the week about the possibility of speaking at a synagogue in Montreal while he was in the city for the weekend.
		Coon Come also made reference to the week's Torah portion - the final chapter of Genesis - and recited a prayer in his native language, Cree, Birnbaum said.
		Coon Come was accompanied by Victor Goldbloom, chair of CJC-Q's executive committee and former commissioner of official languages in Canada.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=567 (518 words)

	Politics - Matthew Coon Come
		Coon Come, 44 ran a campaign attacking incumbent Phil Fontaine for his comfortable relationship with the governing Liberals, saying he had become too cozy with Ottawa.
		Coon Come 50 per cent of the vote on the first ballot and 58 per cent on the second, forcing Mr.
		Coon Come rose to national prominence during the 1990s by fighting the multibillion-dollar Great Whale hydroelectric project to a standstill.
	www.firstnationsdrum.com /fall2000/bio_Coon.htm (1073 words)

	Len Lindstrom
		Coon Come, mother to Matthew Coon Come who is the Grand Chief of all the First Nations people of Canada representing 663 chiefs and tribes.
		I know her son well, in fact Julie and I had the privilege to have breakfast with Matthew and his family in Ottawa the morning after he was elected Grand Chief in 1999 and he and his family have since been in several of our meetings.
		Now Matthew’s mother was in the prayer line, suffering with arthritis throughout her body and a shoulder that did not work.
	www.lenlindstromministries.com /content/NewsItem.phtml?art=76 (826 words)

	CorpWatch
		Coon Come, who addressed the summit in a panel on Saturday, says the declaration's section on indigenous people is a good start, but that there's "still a lot of work to be done.
		Coon Come was glad that the needs of indigenous people were addressed, but said that the FTAA plan lacked specifics.
		Coon Come said there were many parts of the page-and-a-half section dedicated to indigenous peoples that were vague.
	www.corpwatch.org /print_article.php?&id=118 (703 words)

	[No title]
		Matthew Coon Come, the outspoken Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) since 1987, has recently been elected Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).
		Coon Come is the son of a trapper, educated at Trent and McGill Universities, and the winner of numerous awards for his environmental advocacy.
		Coon Come's leadership of the AFN will certainly make it impossible for any level of government to ignore the struggle for native rights.
	www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2000/338-07-bakan.html (924 words)

	Canada and the World Backgrounder: promise of change: when Matthew Coon Come was elected the new Grand Chief of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Canada and the World Backgrounder: promise of change: when Matthew Coon Come was elected the new Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in July 2000, it was said to be the beginning of a new age for Canada's Native people, The
		Coon Come won the leadership with the promise of forcing Native issues onto the government's agenda, and that isn't going to happen quietly.
		Coon Come had not learned the traditional ways of his people.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3695/is_200205/ai_n9061487 (710 words)

	ICT [2003/06/23] News from the North: A digest of First Nations news from Canada
		Coon Come extended an earlier invitation on behalf of the First Nations for Pankiw to visit Native communities in Saskatchewan so he could witness first hand the conditions that have forced the aboriginal lobbyist to make serous demands.
		Coon Come has served as national chief since 2000 when he defeated Fontaine in a two-horse race.
		Observers in Canada have said that Coon Come's advantage as the incumbent may have already been lost to resentment over a decrease in federal funding from $20 million to $6 million, staff layoffs and comments he made two years ago that Natives drink and smoke too much.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1056375826 (1066 words)

	NOW Magazine Online Edition:
		Coon Come's the one who set up the original meeting between Moses and Landry in September, he tells NOW over the phone this week.
		It's a little difficult to pin Coon Come down, to get him to speak directly to criticisms of the deal or comment on the issue of whether his rep as a fighter has taken a hit.
		When it comes right down to it, he says, the people who voted for the deal "are the ones who'll have to live with the consequences, not the environmentalists.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2002-02-14/news_story_p.html (1853 words)

	CBC News - Land, resources top priority for new AFN leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Matthew Coon Come was elected on Wednesday afternoon to a three-year term as head of the country's most powerful native organization.
		Coon Come dethroned Phil Fontaine on the second ballot at the AFN's annual general meeting in Ottawa.
		Coon Come is a Cree leader from northern Quebec who has been described as tough-talking, and not afraid of confrontation.
	cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/07/12/firstnations000712 (444 words)

	Canku Ota - July 29, 2000 - Indian Leader Coon Come
		When Matthew Coon Come grew up in a tent on Cree traplines near Mistissini, 700 kilometres north of Montreal, he and his family saw enormous changes unfolding.
		In a conversation between Coon Come, who was lounging in the Florida sun, and Moses, who answered his satellite phone while goose hunting, the decision was made.
		Coon Come took 58 per cent of the votes and Fontaine conceded, with 41 per cent.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co07292000/CO_07292000_Coon_Come.htm (913 words)

	Windspeaker - The Top Aboriginal News Stories
		Coon Come said the chiefs aren't against accountability measures, but they insist they be allowed to be accountable in their own way.
		National Chief Matthew Coon Come was present along with a 10-person board of directors representing all regions of the country to announce that the First Nations Governance Institute will open its doors on June 1.
		Coon Come also suggested that there's no need for the minister's initiative now that the institute is about to become operational.
	www.ammsa.com /windspeaker/topnews-June-2001.html (4046 words)

	Edited Evidence * AANR * Number 015 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		So when it comes to indigenous nations, what is deemed “good governance” may bear little or no relationship to the world view of the people being governed.
		Chief Matthew Coon Come: When this process began, we impressed upon the minister to meet with the executive committee so we could hear from the horse's mouth what this process would entail.
		Chief Matthew Coon Come: We certainly support the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, who are taking the lead in filing a court case against the anticipatory breach of fiduciary responsibilities of the Crown.
	www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/37/2/AANR/Meetings/Evidence/AANREV15-E.HTM (10019 words)

	Goldman Prize: Recipient Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come has led the Cree in their efforts to oppose a massive hydroelectric development project being built in the region.
		Coon Come has marshaled local, national and international environmental, human rights and tribal communities to create a strong coalition opposed to the James Bay project.
		Coon Come continued to play an influential role in opposing the province's leadership as the Quebec secessionist movement grew.
	www.goldmanprize.org /recipients/recipientProfile.cfm?recipientID=9 (438 words)

	Dialogue Between Nations
		COON COME CRITICIZES "OFFICIAL U.N. DURBAN, South Africa, Sept. 4 /CNW/ - A week of speech-making, lobbying and international diplomacy of the fractious World Conference on Racism in Durban has landed National Chief Matthew Coon Come at the centre of the event, or close to it.
		Indigenous leaders from around the world have coalesced at the event into a sizeable "Indigenous Caucus" in which Chief Coon Come, a delegation of half a dozen Assembly of First Nations and Quebec Grand Council of the Crees delegates, and Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu, are playing leading roles.
		Chief Coon Come is being interviewed extensively by media such as BBC World Service, Italian, Canadian and South African national TV news.
	www.dialoguebetweennations.com /dbnetwork/english/MatthewCoonCome_PressReleaseSept4.htm (442 words)

	Aboriginal Voices Radio - Native Radio for the Urban Native (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Toronto, ON June 26, 2003 - Aboriginal Voices Radio (106.5 FM in Toronto) is proud to air an intimate and insightful interview with incumbent National Chief Matthew Coon Come on Monday June 30th at 4pm.
		Chief Coon Come speaks with journalist Andre Morriseau about his views on the leadership race, his tenure as chief, and the key issues facing the First Nations people.
		Coon Come also talks about his personal hero - his mother, his faith in Christ, and his lifelong struggle on behalf of the First Nations.
	www.aboriginalradio.com /arc5-2003.shtml (273 words)

	Native American chief stirs controversy at UN conference on racism
		However, Coon Come's appearance before the conference was not the first time that he has spoken out on behalf of his people, which have raised objections from people across the board.
		Coon Come, 44, was only 31 when he was elected as grand chief of the Grand Council of the Crees in 1987.
		For his efforts, Coon Come was awarded the Goldman Prize, referred to as the "Nobel Prize of environmental awards," in 1994.
	www.assistnews.net /strategic/s0109017.htm (929 words)

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