Federal Government Sued

More than two dozen aboriginal communities in northwestern Ontario have filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of denying their children a right to equal education.

Grand Chief  Diane Kelly says aboriginals were promised equal education when they signed Treaty 3 over 130 years ago, but Ottawa hasn't lived up to its side of the deal.

Chief Chuck McPherson of Couchiching First Nation says the reserve would like to have its own school, but children there receive half the funding of public school students.