Attiwapiskat Chief Will Attend Tonight’s Meeting

Theresa Spence, whose hunger protest has fanned the
flames of the Idle No More protest movement, will attend tonight’s ceremonial meeting with Gov. Gen. David Johnston.
Spence, chief of the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation in
northern Ontario, has been on a liquids-only diet for the past month in hopes of securing a meeting with Johnston and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Spence joined a group of her fellow chiefs at a downtown Ottawa hotel before heading to Rideau Hall, for an evening meeting described by officials as “ceremonial.”
Several chiefs, meanwhile, are publicly urging Spence to end her protest, saying her health is in danger and accomplished what she set out to do.
The meeting with Johnston caps a pivotal day in Ottawa that
included a meeting between Harper and First Nations leaders.
Thousands of aboriginal protesters and their supporters also
flooded Parliament Hill and staged Idle No More demonstrations across Canada in a show of solidarity.