Transitional justice for Indigenous Peoples should be a key federal election issue

By Kirsten J. Fisher, Assistant Professor, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan and Kathy Walker, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan “Transitional justice,”…

Colorado governor voids 1864 order to kill Native Americans

By Patty Nieberg THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER (AP) _ Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday rescinded a 19th century proclamation that called for citizens to…

How donors from Canada and Europe helped fund Indian Residential Schools

By Tiffany Dionne Prete, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow. Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary Indigenous communities have detected hundreds of graves near former Indian Residential…

ISWO’s Virtual Programming Creates Wellness Community for all Ages during the pandemic

Submitted to TRT Staff MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO — When the COVID-19 global pandemic was declared last March, Indigenous Sport & Wellness Ontario (ISWO) knew that the…

Why the outdoors should be an integral part of every early learning and child care program

By Christine Alden, PhD Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Bilateral negotiations are underway to move the historic federal commitment to…

Suburban monumentalism: How do we change Indigenous settler relations when there are no statues to destroy?

By Patricia Landolt, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto and Paloma E. Villegas, Assistant Professor, Sociology, California State University San Bernardino Across Canada’s cities, protesters…

National Gallery of Canada offers free admission to Indigenous Peoples

OTTAWA — The National Gallery of Canada announced Monday that admission will be free for Indigenous Peoples when it reopens this week for the first…

Former Shingwauk Residential School declared National Historic Site

OTTAWA — Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the designation of the Former Shingwauk (Pronounced: Zhing-waak)…

Reconciliation and Residential Schools: Canadians need new stories to face a future better than what we inherited

By Kent den Heyer, Professor of Secondary Education, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta Indigenous leaders have advised Canadians to brace themselves for findings of…

Honour those found at residential schools by respecting the human rights of First Nations children today

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…

Telling the story of New York’s Indigenous ironworkers through animated film

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…

Colonialism is alive and well on the AM radio waves of 1380 CKPC in Brantford, Ontario.

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…

If you can’t bite; don’t growl!

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…

Statues, Churches and other delusions

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 frustrated after Pope passes on apology for residential schools

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…