The Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, the local branch of the tribe, soon joined in protests against the uranium mining project after being contacted by Mr. Morrison.
The Seattle City Council recently passed a first-in-nation local ordinance that seeks to allow ridesharing and taxi drivers to unionize and collectively bargain.
But it's apparently not the same thing for the local First Nation people - and another loss of their traditional way of life and culture, without something else fully taking its place, with disastrous effects.
When it was founded in 1900, it was the first Hall of Fame in the nation, local historians say, and the elections to induct members were covered by the national press.
In 1955 he became director of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem, N.C., the nation's first local arts council.
The Nassau County Legislature voted unanimously today to require religious organizations to report complaints of child sex abuse to the district attorney -- a measure legislators said they believed was the nation's first local law dealing with the sexual abuse of children by members of the clergy.
In 2004 the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) conducted the nation's first local Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Findings presented here from the nation's first local HANES, conducted in NYC in 2004, suggest that there is variability in exposure to toxic metals across population subgroups.
Moving up through the hierarchy of France's public administration at an exceptional pace, he was appointed at 41 as the prefect's collaborator in the department of Lot, in the southwest of France, becoming the nation's first disabled local administrator.
Besides sentiments of belonging and shared destiny, this "third nation," as it is known, is bolstered by synergistic local economies.
SBC Communications, the nation's second-biggest local phone carrier, increased 41 cents to $24.77.
