Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence is expected to meet reporters on Victoria Island at 10:30 ET as efforts continue to broker a compromise to save today's planned talks between First Nations and the prime minister.
Elsewhere, the executive of the Assembly of First Nations, including national Chief Shawn Atleo, is meeting as efforts continue to broker a compromise to save Friday afternoon's planned talks with Stephen Harper.
By late Thursday, the talks were thrown into disarray, with chiefs from first Manitoba and then other regions including Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories saying the talks must be held on their terms: involving more chiefs, in a bigger room where they are meeting at the Ottawa's Delta hotel, and including the Governor General.
Gov. Gen. David Johnston was asked by Harper to hold a "ceremonial meeting" with chiefs at Rideau Hall at 6:30 p.m. ET Friday, following this afternoon's "working meetings" in the Prime Minisiter's Office involving a delegation from the AFN. The prime minister himself was only set to be part of the beginning and end of those talks.
Several chiefs, including Grand Chief Derek Nepinak from Manitoba, are fasting Friday to show their support for Spence. Several members of those meeting at the Delta Friday morning have told CBC News they are looking to Spence for direction and want to support her protest.
The dissident group says it will join the national Idle No More protest centred on Parliament Hill today if the prime minister and the Governor General do not acquiesce to the dissident chiefs' demands to abandon the plans to meet in the Prime Minister's Office and join a larger group of some 600 chiefs and other First Nations members at the Delta hotel.
Chiefs from Ontario have threatened a non-confidence vote for the AFN national chief if Atleo attends Friday afternoon's talks with Harper.
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