A rez dog from the Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba is the latest to enter the race to be the Assembly of First Nations next National Chief.
Cooch-Cooch, a brown mongrel, announced the launch of his campaign under the back steps of Elsie Moneyas’ house where he’s lived since he was a pup.
“It’s clear this organization needs a leader who can steer us into the future,” Cooch-Cooch told reporters. “The status quo is no longer acceptable.”
If elected, Cooch-Cooch is promising to reform the Assembly of First Nations from the ground up; launch an immediate review of several memorandums of understanding signed by the Bellegarde administration; and vows that each rez dog across the country will receive a minimum one moose leg bone per month to gnaw on.
While many in the community—human and canine—are already showing their support with posters and banners, others aren’t so happy.
“He has 47 pups with six different dogs that he almost never sees or supports,” said Missy, a female rez dog who was eating a dead muskrat near the shore. “Plus his plan to compel Ottawa to finally kill the 2 percent funding cap is full of holes and his silence on Kinder Morgan’s pipeline is telling.”
Although he actually missed the June 19th deadline to register as an official candidate, Cooch-Cooch and his campaign team are confident First Nations Chiefs will make the right decision during voting, which will happen in Vancouver on July 25th.
