By Anne Levesque, Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, L’Universite d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa The discovery of more than 1,000 Indigenous children’s bodies in unmarked graves…
By: Sara Laux Allan Downey is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Indigenous Studies program. A citizen of the Dakelh Nation (Nak’azdli…
On this day a gathering of numerous indigenous and non indigenous people gathered together to acknowledge the children that were killed in the genocidal residential…
Thoughts of an elderly Mohawk man Sometime in the 1960’s, Little Jimmy Dickens sang a song about a man who chased and caught a pretty…
By Terri Brown Statues toppled and churches burned is the news of the week. I listen with awe and amazement. As I search my being…
Indigenous leaders are expressing disappointment and frustration over comments by Pope Francis they say fell short of an apology for the Catholic Church’s role in…
By Marcia Anderson, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba “We didn’t know what he was on.” That’s what the emergency room physician…
By Jila Ghomeshi It does not take a degree to notice that the names for groups of people sharing a common skin colour, ethnicity, gender…
In BC, the first residential school ever constructed was the St. Euguene Mission school. This building was designed by Canadian architect Allan Keefer in 1911.…
OTTAWA — Federal lawmakers have passed legislation to create a national day for truth and reconciliation. MPs unanimously agreed to wrap debate on Bill C-5…
Quebec’s Indigenous Affairs Minister said Monday that the province is open to searching the grounds of former residential schools for graves, if survivors and their…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Two women who were sentenced in tribal court and jailed on misdemeanor charges in the case of a Native American girl…
By Nick Perry THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) _ Children’s advocate Cindy Kiro said Monday she hopes to inspire Maori girls after becoming…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. _ A Native American lawyer wants Harvard University to return a tomahawk once owned by his pioneering ancestor, Chief Standing Bear of the…
By Amie Tsang, Dalla Lana Fellow, University of Toronto Research conservatively estimates that 35,000 Canadians experience homelessness on any given night, with an average of…